“I woke up in the middle of the night—I thought a monster was going to crawl out of my stomach,” explains Asha Brown, founder of WeAreDiabetes.org…
Unless your blood sugars are well over 200 mg/dL for days on end, there's no reason a woman with type 1 diabetes will have any more difficulty producing breast milk than a non-diabetic woman.”
Christel Oerum is a co-founder of a diabetes and fitness website, TheFitBlog.com. Today, at age 38, Christel is a competitive bikini athlete,…
“I was seeing this doctor who would just do my blood-work, give me my A1C and send me on my way. I thought, ‘Why am I coming here every 3 months? I’m getting nothing out of this.’”
The moment you feel judgment coming from your CDE is that same moment you might be tuning out, because that feeling of judgment actually reveals a lack of empathy for just how overwhelming diabetes can be every single day—no matter what your A1C is.
Nearly 20 years ago, a teenage girl with type 1 diabetes read an article in a well-established diabetes publication about “diabulimia.” More specifically, she read the sidebar of the article that essentially taught her how to skip her insulin injections for the sake of weight loss. Despite reading the sentence explaining just how severely dangerous this behavior was, the girl absorbed only the part about losing weight.
The following is an excerpt from the book Pregnancy with Type 1 Diabetes by Ginger Vieira and Jennifer Smith, CDE & RD
There are two things…
For the past four years, unbeknownst to me, I’ve been gradually developing fibromyalgia—and it’s nothing like diabetes. Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder characterized by widespread pain in the joints, tendons and muscles, as well as low levels of serotonin, severe fatigue, sleep disturbances, headaches, and depression.
Today, Darren is not only a renowned tattoo artist known for his work through TLC's "Miami Ink," he's also covered in tattoos himself, challenging the old-fashioned rule that diabetics can't get tattoos because their bodies don’t heal properly. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1972 at barely 18 months old, Brass was in a hyperglycaemic coma for several days before one of the doctors finally asked if anyone had thought to check his blood sugar.
I no longer view counting carbohydrates as a diabetic obligation, but instead a responsibility I take on to ensure I’m fueled for my powerlifting training...