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Ask D’Mine: Alternate Testing Sites, Bolus Timing for Exercise

By WilD on December 10, 2011

Diabetes is complicated… Just look at today’s post header! If you weren’t a PWD, would you have any idea what that meant? No wonder we never run out of questions!
And thank goodness for that, we say here at Ask D’Mine, our weekly quirky diabetes advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
 
Kayla from Alabama, type 2…

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Abbott FreeStyle Test Strips Recall

By AmyT on March 28, 2009

Yesterday we received a letter from Abbott Diabetes Care via certified mail. My husband even had to sign for it. What could it be? Did I win a prize? Owe them money? Were they offering me a job?
BEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP… none of the above. It appears that several batches of FreeStyle and FreeStyle Lite test strips have been inadvertently shipped out to customers before being approved for external distribution.
Seven different lots “have the potential to…

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