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Kareng @kareng (80243) • United States 4 Apr 25

It's warming up and I have been getting a bit more active. Yesterday I rode with my husband to Baton Rouge for his follow up appointment with his diabetes doctor. He got a good checkup and was told to keep reducing his insulin...

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Backyard inventors - Stanley Clark

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jul 23

Here in Australia, today marks the start of National Diabetes Week. Like many others, my husband has Type 2 diabetes. It is under control thanks to diet and medication. Type 1 diabetes is much more serious and involves daily...

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Food science is fascinating!

Fleur @Fleura (35034) • United Kingdom 3 Feb 23

So many things that I never gave a thought to, turn out to have a significant impact. Food science is far more interesting than I ever thought! For example, I often freeze bread because my favourite brand of ‘proper’ bread isn’t...

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First Lower Number....

Courtney Dutton @MommyOfEli2013 (89644) • Rupert, Idaho 16 Jan 23

I am talking about my blood sugar here. The first 2 weeks of January I was doing low carb (as much as possible anyway) and my sugars were staying mostly in the 200s, maybe 180's would be the lowest number I would see. Well,...

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Unfathomable to me

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 1 Apr 22

193 Republicans in Congress voted against lowering the price of insulin to an affordable amount. I cannot imagine why they would support Big Pharma profits over human lives. Well, yes, I can. They are bought and paid for by the...

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Low Insulin

Courtney Dutton @MommyOfEli2013 (89644) • Rupert, Idaho 27 Jan 22

I got a message from my endocrinologist today that the results from the C-Peptide test came back. My insulin level is pretty low. My result was 0.6 - which is in the normal range but at the very low side. My potassium is also a...

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New Diagnosis?

Courtney Dutton @MommyOfEli2013 (89644) • Rupert, Idaho 11 Jan 22

I saw my regular doctor today...was supposed to ASAP after getting out of the hospital. Notes from visit: - he thinks the Farxiga med is what led..or at least was part of my DKA. - he also thinks I should be on insulin. He's...

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Cactus Insulin

Denise Knight @gnatsmom (2575) 27 Sep 20

Has anyone ever heard of using the Napol Cactus to treat diabetes? I have a friend from Mexico who told me of this usage. I didn't even know you could eat cactus. I did some research and found out that this cactus is also and...

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April 15, 2020 - What happened that day?

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222417) • United States 15 Apr 20

National Banana Day National That Sucks Day 1892 - The General Electric Company is founded. 1923 - Insulin became generally available for those with diabetes. 1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. 1933 -...

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Not coming down.

amnabas @amnabas (14877) • Karachi, Pakistan 11 Dec 19

My sister in law is on insulin dose due to being diabetic in pragnancy. Inspite of insulin and sugar control pill her glucose reading are still high.Although she is avoiding sweet and high sugar foods. I am shock why is it...

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Insulin insertions.

amnabas @amnabas (14877) • Karachi, Pakistan 1 Dec 19

Well my sister in law is 12 weeks pregnant and she is diagnosed with diabetes. Her fasting sugar crossed borderline and random readings are also not so fine. Her gynae advised her insulin and sugar control tablets too. She is...

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Normal glucose levels depends on pancreatic hormones

Palash Das @onlinepalash (77) • Kolkata, India 26 Oct 19

Maintenance of normal glucose levels depends on pancreatic hormones, insulin and glucose. Therefore in the fasting state glucose is largely produced by the liver and approximately 70% to 80% of the body glucose produced by...

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Stress and hypertension is also increase the blood glucose levels

Palash Das @onlinepalash (77) • Kolkata, India 9 Aug 19

Patients who using standard insulin doses must be contain carbohydrate with their diet. It should intake with meal of with snacks. A patient who injects insulin the goal is to intact insulin with their lifestyle. This is including...

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Insulin administration have huge role in diabetes mellitus

Palash Das @onlinepalash (77) • Kolkata, India 1 Aug 19

The development of new insulin and method of insulin administration is better. Moreover it is effective care for people with diabetes. Most of studies have been indicate that only 25% of excess risk basis on the...

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Plants for diabetes

Loriejane Almira D. Quiboloy @Loriejane22 (132) 14 Dec 18

Insulin Plant These are my genuine insulin plant, a lot of people suffering from diabetis choose to medicate theirselves by eating those leaves, they stop taking any medicine for their blood sugar, instead they use to take these...

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A New Advance In Science

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 2 Jul 18

They just said on the news that within three to five years diabetics could be taking a pill instead of taking injections to keep their insulin levels where they need to be. Isn't that amazing?

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Are You Diabetic?

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 26 Jan 17

You don’t have to answer that, since it’s a personal question, but you might want to know something that I found out recently. My son has been doing some research about diabetes because he was told last year that he was insulin...

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foods that control your blood sugar

s sivasubrahmanyam @shivamani10 (11035) • Hyderabad, India 5 Dec 16

Blood sugar means the amount of glucose present in the blood which is transported from the liver to the other body cells via the bloodstream with the help of the Insulin which again will be produced by the Pancreas glands. If...

food to maintain balance of glucose in the blood

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The disease most of the people highly confused with

s sivasubrahmanyam @shivamani10 (11035) • Hyderabad, India 3 Oct 16

Yes, this is Diabetes I am talking about. This is a chronic and really a fatal disease.People often confused to know its existence and appear again after a gap of the recluse. They see some people taking insulin every day and...

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My Husbad has Diabetes

Macarrosel @Macarrosel (7498) • Philippines 22 Jun 16

My husband was diagnosed of having type 2 diabetes three years ago. Although the doctor said that his internal organs are fine and are not damaged, but still he was totally devastated, depressed, and on suicidal mode. Of course,...

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