By
WilD on
March 16, 2013
Happy Saturday, and welcome back to our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine! hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois.
Just last week, Wil looked at how long we PWDs (people with diabetes) could generally survive without insulin in our systems. Today, he explores how long a bolus dose of this BG-lowering elixir might last in your system once given. Hint: it’s not cut-and-dry!
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}…
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By
MikeH on
November 7, 2012
We’ve seen the sensational headlines over and over: “no more needles for diabetics!”
Maybe soon we’ll be inhaling insulin through our noses. Or rolling it on like a stick of deodorant. Or lapping it up in the form of a wafer on our tongues.
Maybe we’ll be getting non-stop blood sugar readings just by shining a beam of light onto our skin…
Look out! Here come glucose-sensoring tattoos and saliva measurements that promise pain-free BG…
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By
WilD on
November 3, 2012
Happy Saturday! Welcome back to Ask D’Mine, our weekly advice column hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. For the first post of November, Wil puts his finger on a universal question for PWDs: Should we really poke our pinky finger with lancets? He also opines on the state of the market in comparing insulin pens versus syringes.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Claudia, type…
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By
WilD on
August 29, 2012
Earlier this summer, we told you about the Valeritas V-Go system that is undergoing a small initial launch on the East Coast. We wanted to follow-up and give you a closer look at this product, which isn’t what you might normally think of when you hear the term “insulin pump”; it represents a new breed of delivery device for the growing number of type 2 PWDs on insulin.
By D’Mine Columnist / Correspondent Wil Dubois…
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By
AmyT on
April 28, 2011
Diabetes Health magazine recently published an exposé about the implantable insulin pump that Medtronic has been developing in Europe for over 20 years. The story quotes four passionate users and implies that Medtronic is dumping this phenomenal technology for lowly business reasons (not sniffing enough profit in the air?)
A few of the dozens of commenters defended Medtronic by pointing out the holdup at FDA, not only on the new pump technology itself, but also…
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