By
WilD on
November 10, 2012
Got diabetes questions? You came to the right place! Ask D’Mine is our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil has his eye on eye complications, and is waxing wise about the many different “ranges” for what might be considered ideal blood sugar levels.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Charlotte, type 2 from New Mexico, writes: I feel so old!…
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By
MikeH on
September 11, 2012
Standing in the corner of a dark room, my eyes took a few moments to adjust to the darkness.
Ten feet in front of me, my mom sat at an eye-testing device the size of an oven. Next to her, a doctor stared at a dimmed screen, with two boxes displayed — one had a close-up of my mom’s right eye showing the inside crosshairs and the other resembled a line graph of what an eye-based…
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By
MikeH on
August 16, 2012
Three extra lines on an eye chart.
That may not seem like much at first glance (!), but those lines represent a significant step forward in the treatment of a form of diabetic retinopathy known as diabetic macular edema (DME).
In groundbreaking news this week, the Food and Drug Administration cleared the first drug of its kind to treat DME for people with diabetes, called Lucentis from California-based Genentech.
The FDA noted that this drug…
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By
AmyT on
January 6, 2011
Complications: preventing them is the motivation behind almost everything we do in managing our diabetes. Yet how much do we really know about how to live with them? After all, life doesn’t stop with a diabetes complication.
I’ve been thinking that even if you’re diligent with your diabetes management, that isn’t necessarily a guarantee (nor is it easy!). You could have amazing BG control, but still develop some damage. Totally unfair, right? This is the…
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