Need help navigating life with diabetes? Ask D’Mine! That would be our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil takes on the issues of high blood sugars in the mornings and whether us people with diabetes can just use a measuring tape around our waists to gauge our health. What, you say? Keep reading!
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Carol, type 2…
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Happy Saturday! With the weekend comes your chance to Ask D’Mine! — through our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil responds to reader questions about lowering your @#$! blood sugar without insulin, and about the real value of the Glycemic Index.
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Bill from Indiana, type 2, asks: Is there a fast way to lower your blood…
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If we had a dollar for every time “What the heck??” was uttered in managing diabetes, we’d probably have enough funds to find the cure ourselves! Luckily, we thrive on the never-ending mysteries of diabetes here at our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil tackles high BGs in a type 2 PWD, and how insulin-on-board is calculated differently in various insulin…
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Complications of diabetes are nothing that anyone likes to think about, but here at the ‘Mine, we believe knowledge is power. So we’ve been running a “411 info series” on a variety of complications, from heart disease to neuropathy to depression.
Back in December we talked about frozen shoulder (which has nothing to do with cold weather), and now we’re moving down your arm to talk about carpal tunnel syndrome — an incredibly common ailment…
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January 28, 2012
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Yup, you guessed it: it’s another edition of our new diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
Alex from Canada, type 1, writes: I was diagnosed roughly 9 months ago. Since then, my insulin requirements have increased every now and then. Last week, I needed 16u of basal insulin in the morning, and from that…
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