Bethany Reynolds McKenzie is a D-mom on a mission. After years of struggling to help her son, River, achieve normal blood sugar levels, she finally…
Category: Diabetes Management
Each month, the average woman’s body prepares for pregnancy. Ovaries release an egg, if pregnancy doesn’t occur, the lining of the uterus sheds,…
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As the mother of two children with type 1 diabetes, I’ve learned for certain that carbohydrates raise blood sugar and insulin brings it down. …
I have prediabetes? I mean, doctor, are you sure? I’m 23 years old.
My doctor slowly nodded his head. “Your test results indicate a condition known…
There is a tightrope lined with carbohydrate counts, mileage trackers, and bottles of metformin. This once elastic tightrope is starting to fray,…
There was a diabetes day more than a decade ago that hit me like a ton of bricks.
OK, maybe that’s the first flag right there… when I said…
Sunburns are the worst. That hot, prickly pain where you can’t graze the burnt area without wincing and you feel like you’re actually on fire? …
For the past four years, the people in the Facebook group TypeOneGrit have been working to help each other achieve normal blood sugars by following…
I’d never heard of hemoglobin A1C until my husband, Mike, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2002. At the time of his diagnosis, Mike’s…