Diabetes Vacations
Vacations are awesome. Since I was young, I’ve loved visiting new places and spending time with family. My favorite type of vacation,...
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Dec 26, 20182 min
Diabetes and Celiac disease
How are they related? Celiac Disease is defined as inflammation, atrophy, and hyperplasia of the small bowel in response to gluten....
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Nov 16, 20182 min
Handling halloween
Halloween my fellow DM warriors! Halloween can be scary, especially for us diabetics… I’ll start out by saying, if you can resist all...
diabetes_pa
Nov 9, 20183 min
CGM therapy: a game changer
What is the first step in controlling our blood sugar? Knowing our blood sugar! Most of us who take insulin test at least 4x a day...
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Nov 9, 20183 min
Rapid-acting insulin
Now that we have gone over how to keep glucose levels steady with basal insulin, let’s talk about the use of rapid acting insulin for...
diabetes_pa
Nov 6, 20183 min
Basal insulin
Lets talk about Insulin! There are many types of insulin available for multiple daily injection (MDI) use. The most commonly used and...
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Nov 6, 20182 min
Diabetes and bullying. How diabetes made me the "cool kid".
I grew up on the small island of Kauai, Hawai’i. I loved it there and I still do, but it is not a good place to be sick. Or at least it...
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Oct 31, 20182 min
What is type 1 diabetes, anyway?
Diabetes is classified as elevated blood glucose levels stemming from the body’s resistance to insulin action, insufficient insulin...
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