There’s plenty to be scared of with diabetes, unfortunately. But airing and sharing your fears can help you feel a heck of a lot more empowered to face them. Today at our diabetes advice column Ask D’Mine, veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois is taking on menopause (no, really!) and a teenage type 1 who is living in fear of lows.
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Besides the cool factor of “let’s take health mobile,” one of the recurring themes at the AADE conference this year was recognition of the fact that while the diabetes population continues to mushroom, the ability of healthcare professionals to care for the ever-growing numbers of patients is stagnating. (There are currently 30,000 CDEs working in the US, but at least 43,000 are needed to match the workload of 24 million PWDs; by 2025, at least…
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Got diabetes? Need advice? Of course you do! And you came to the right place: Ask D’Mine, a weekly Q&A hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
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Wil goes deep this week on blood sugar control issues. Enjoy!
Liz from Oklahoma, type 2, writes: I get lightheaded and shaky even after eating a good meal. My blood sugar is around…
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Allison and I have been at the AADE (American Association of Diabetes Educators) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas since Wednesday. It’s over 100 degrees outside, massively air-conditioned and buzzing with energy here inside the Mandalay Bay resort.
Sources tell us there are over 7,000 attendees this year, and nearly 300 exhibitors — which kind of beats the pants off the already-overwhelming 185 companies that exhibited at the ADA conference in June. Why the gap? Educators…
Welcome back to Ask D’Mine — our weekly column proudly going where no diabetes Q&A has gone before.
If you happen to fear complications, OR be a man with this stupid disease, you will not want to miss this week’s edition, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
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Leticia from Uruguay, type 1, writes: I’m 27 and I’ve…