Stick It Up Your Nose

Well we tried this once before and it got pulled from the market… let’s see what happens this time. I suspect consistency of absorption will be an issue. FDA Approves Inhaled Diabetes Medication

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Interesting Long-Term Study

This caught my eye – long-term studies like this are rare because of both the cost and difficulty in tracking people over long periods of time. I’m curious as to whether they actually learn anything new or useful from this, and I did note the comment, “If we are able to pick up early diabetes,…

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Side Effects and Outliers

I’m excited about Victoza, even though it didn’t work for me – I started having episodes of tachycardia and arrhythmias within one day of starting it, all of which ended as soon as I stopped. I think this drug has some potential, though I always take things with a grain of salt as we wait…

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Equivalency in Bad Recommendations?

Not sure this is really exciting, given it’s the VA and given it could say as much about lousy Docs as it does about great PAs and NPs. That’s not even addressing how bad the recommendations we’re given are, which would equalize the outcomes… Diabetes management by mid-level providers comparable to physicians

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Enjoying the Burden and a Fascinating Study

My latest VLOG: ◉► VLOG: Enjoy the Burden – When You Fall Off the Wagon, Revel in the Pleasure!                                       Ad the study I referenced: Diabetes: Intensive Treatment May Cause More Quality-of-Life Loss than Gain

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Fo My Nerdz…

A great blog post (not my blog, another), maybe a bit dry at spots but worth a read, especially if you missed the ADA’s 74th Scientific Meeting… Where is the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Heading?

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Walking Across America to Fight Obesity…

Friends, my family went camping last weekend and we hadn’t been there ten minutes when we met David Matos, who had an epiphany about his weight and his health, and is now WALKING ACROSS THE COUNTRY to save his life and to make a statement about obesity – check out his FB page, what a…

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Miss Idaho

This is very cool. I often choose to do my insulin injections in public – not unnecessarily to be obnoxious, but I certainly don’t hide it when my family eats out because I feel people should know what we have to live with… are you “political” with your diabetes? Do you show your pump or…

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Hold the Bread…

Interesting weird little study – I’ve known for some years that canola has health benefits, but not lowering blood sugar or LDL in Type 2 diabetics. Now, why they chose to test the oil in BREAD, I can’t imagine…. Research suggests benefits of canola oil for people with Type 2 diabetes | Science Codex

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I WAS One of These Kids…

Which is part of why I started ThrivingDiabetics.com and the Freedom from Diabetes programs. We don’t need to suffer…. Poor quality of life may affect teens’ diabetes management

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