Our first holiday season with diabetes in the family was 20 Christmases ago, but I can remember it like it was an hour ago. It was all centered on sugar…
Category: Living
Starting January 1, people who pay the highest out-of-pocket prices for insulin, such as those who pay full retail price at the pharmacy, may directly…
Sure, it’s true: All we want for Christmas/Hannakuh/Insert holiday of your choice here is a cure.
But we cannot have that yet. And while I’ve seen…
Erin Spineto’s newest book, “Adventure On: Adventure More, Worry Less, and Watch Your Diabetes Motivation Soar”, landed in my lap at an excellent…
Living with diabetes is stressful, frustrating and exhausting, and my general response to people who encourage me to find the bright side of diabetes is to want to slap them. Nonetheless, while I’d take a successful pancreas transplant in a heartbeat, there are certain benefits that diabetes can provide.
Through their Type 1 Diabetes Access Charter T1International is calling for insulin and other vital diabetes supplies to be made available…
From the outside, it’s easy to assume that diabetes is a numbers thing. Eat this much food, give this much insulin, exercise this many minutes, aim…
But the last thing anyone wants to do is dress up as a freaking glucose meter. Or worse, a CGM that beeps all through the party. And then... you can't dress up as a syringe or everyone will think you're a prick. You know what happened to me last time I wore my paper mache metformin costume?
DOColors is a place to voice concerns and fears. We bring together people from all over the world and support each other as we struggle with diabetes, an unforgiving disease.
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.”