Year: 2019
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Treatment
Diabetic Ketoacidosis: When Can it Happen and How to Know if You’re at Risk
Diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA, is something most diabetics understand, at least on the surface. You’ve probably heard your doctor ask…
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Treatment
When is it Time to Fire Your Doctor?
When the white coat walks in, it’s easy to forget that they work for you. Especially with a condition like…
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Research
Rating the Performance of Popular Diabetes Non-Profits
Many in the Type 1 Diabetes community want to work for a cure, but philanthropy is the way most of…
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Living
3 Powerful Tips to Lose Weight with Type 1 Diabetes
Losing weight is hard for the non-diabetic body; adding type 1 diabetes to the challenge of weight-loss can be overwhelming…
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Living
Living a Longer Sweet Life
Less than a hundred years ago, being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes was practically a death sentence. Most people lived,…
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Living
Timing Your Highest-Carb Meals to Make Blood Sugar Management Easier
To live a life without any carbs may work for some, but if it doesn’t work for you…that’s okay. If…
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My Story
‘I am Insulin Nation’
Insulin Nation is all about our community & we would love to get to know one another better. Send us…
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Living
A1c Tip: ‘Good A1c’ is a Relative Term for Type 1 Diabetes
When you live with type 1 diabetes, figuring out exactly what constitutes a good A1C can be tricky. It used…
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Living
Being a Nanny for a T1D Child
Becoming a Nanny About 15 years ago, I was looking for work as a babysitter, to supplement my life as…
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Living
Lowering A1c is often an Endo problem
We spoke with Liz Meyer, the mom of a growing T1D boy who was diagnosed three years ago. Here…
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Treatment
A1c Tip: Completely Change How You Treat Low Blood Sugars
Your low blood sugar habits can have a big impact on several aspects of your life. The foods you choose,…
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Living
Painful Medicare Journey to get GGM/Pump Coverage
We spoke with Tom Linn an attorney in Colorado who was diagnosed with T1D at age 69, 3 years ago. …
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Medicine/Drugs
Shaheen Leads Senate Bipartisan Push to Rollback Over a Decade of Insulin Price Hikes
Senator Shaheen just introduced legislation to rollback insulin prices: Official Release The JDRF announced this support for the legislation “No…
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Treatment
Injecting Insulin Into Muscle: Good or Bad?
Insulin was designed to be injected into body fat — also referred to as “subcutaneous tissue.” When injected into body…
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Treatment
A1c Tip: Change What You Consider a “High” Blood Sugar
Should you try to eat a healthier diet? Should you exercise more often? Should you vow to never eat bread…
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Living
Not Just for Juveniles: Understanding the Shift in Diagnosis Age for Type 1 Diabetes
The first time I went to a local T1D meetup group I was amazed at how many older people were…
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Living
Understanding the Difference Between Type 1 Diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes
Shortly after I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, I was talking to one of my parent’s friends. She was…
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Living
Diabetes Symptoms Go Far Beyond Frequent Bathroom Trips
I remember the exact date my symptoms started. It was on February 24th. I woke up in the middle of…
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Living
Using the Insulin Resistance Diet to Help Control Your Type 1 Diabetes
Your diet impacts your insulin resistance In my latest article, I talked about the important role insulin resistance can play…
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Living
Survive and Thrive during your Perimenopause Challenge
Since becoming a type 1 diabetic (30 yrs ago now) I have been on a mission to maintain a healthy…
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