I doubt GERD is a complication, since I’ve had problems with it long before the diabetes, though I wonder if diabetes is a factor keeping it out of control.
Diabetes In Control – Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Diabetics, an under Diagnosed Complication.
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Diabetics, an under Diagnosed Complication.
The 10 Commandments of medication usage
I’m on 6 daily medications a day and I have sat down, read all the side effects, and have had intelligent conversations with my doctors on the medications.
For example, the reason I’m on Zyrtec, is because Allegra makes my blood pressure go high.
The reason I’m on insulin is because I don’t like the side effects from the Type 2 medications, nor do I like what they do to your lifestyle.
I believe it’s important for patients to know what is going on with their medications.
This is a real neat story … and I wish that DLife would have featured him along with the pilot last night, and kept the focus on diabetes in the workplace.
I kept expecting them to talk about this story, as it has been in the diabetic news for several months.
Back From Iraq: A Soldier’s Story – American Diabetes Association
Staff Sergeant Mark Thompson convinced the Army that having type 1 diabetes shouldn’t keep him from serving in Iraq.
Tight control IS a good thing. Besides, I feel better.
CNN.com – Study: Tight?glucose control cuts diabetics’ heart risk – Jun 13, 2005
After a follow-up of 6 1/2 years, it emerged than these patients also have a 57 percent reduction in the rate of heart attacks and strokes, said Dr. David Nathan of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
If you are interested in the ADA Scientific Sessions, this blog is doing an excellent and timely recap of the actual sessions.
Follow the happenings at the 65th Annual Scientific Sessions in San Diego through the eyes of Dr. Richard Kahn, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer of the American Diabetes Association.
I find it very disappointing that there is no progress being made on continous monitors. See snapshots of blood sugar readings is NOT helpful.
Also that means we won’t be seeing a closed loop system anytime soon. A close loop system, for those who aren’t in the know, is an insulin pump that operates automatically. For that to happen we have to have a continous glucose monitor and it will have to have been out of the market long enough to be known to be reliable.
Diabetes Mine: Product Roundup: Continuous Monitors (in the Holding Pen), Convenience Enhancers
Product Roundup: Continuous Monitors (in the Holding Pen), Convenience Enhancers
Yesterday’s DLife episode was a LOT better. Pulling the cohost off with the guest and letting the two focus on each other was a vast improvement on 4 people firing questions without listening to each other.
I still think they are trying to give out too much information too fast. I think the segment on breakfast could have been a full show. They still hit and glance off the topic rather than go in depth. There was also much more to say about dealing with diabetes in the workplace. The ADA guide never said when it was okay to share with diabetes, just when you didn’t have to.
All in all, MUCH better.
My heel spurs are back. I know it’s because I increased my treadmill time. I’m taking an off day today, and going to ice my food down most of the day and hoping it will go away.
I know my dog agility runs didn’t help, though we were on grass. It was a fabulous dog agility weekend. I ran both dogs and the trial was scheduled for Friday and Saturday only.
This was an USDAA trial, which has been extremely frustrating for me. Marcie either makes one mistake which wouldn’t count in AKC, or is over time, which is shorter than AKC time. (For the non-dog agility person, there are several dog agility venues with different rules and different ideas, for us AKC is the easiest).
On Friday night, Marcie started out the evening with a 1st in Gamblers. USDAA has games, in Gamblers, you get as many points in the opening, a buzzer sounds (or a whistler), and you have a fixed amount of time to get a “gamble”. It’s basically a set of obstacles where you have to stay behind a line and the dog has to get it right by verbal commands. Marcie Qed, getting enough points in the opening AND getting the gamble.
Marcie was also clean in Standard, but .6 seconds over time. ARGH! She took a second.
Maggie got distracted, and went off course once, and came in second. That was Maggie’s best course at that point, she’s only competed about 4 trials.
Saturday was even better. Marcie and I played Snooker. It works like the pool game, I think. There are 3 red jumps, and a small course. You take a red jump, take part of the course, red, another part, etc. Then when you finish that part, you take the course. Marcie took a 1st place in that compeition and Q’ed.
Standard runs were both clean with both dogs, but both were over time. They both had trouble with the weaves and Marcie had trouble with the table.
Marcie had a final jumpers run, which was real fun for both as there are no weaves or table to mess us up. She ran clean and in time, taking another 1st and Qing.
So our total was:
Marcie had 3 Q’s, and got 3 1st places, and 2 2nd places.
Maggie had 2 second places.
It definately means that I’m running better, even with the heel pain.
My heel spurs are back. I know it’s because I increased my treadmill time. I’m taking an off day today, and going to ice my food down most of the day and hoping it will go away.
I know my dog agility runs didn’t help, though we were on grass. It was a fabulous dog agility weekend. I ran both dogs and the trial was scheduled for Friday and Saturday only.
This was an USDAA trial, which has been extremely frustrating for me. Marcie either makes one mistake which wouldn’t count in AKC, or is over time, which is shorter than AKC time. (For the non-dog agility person, there are several dog agility venues with different rules and different ideas, for us AKC is the easiest).
On Friday night, Marcie started out the evening with a 1st in Gamblers. USDAA has games, in Gamblers, you get as many points in the opening, a buzzer sounds (or a whistler), and you have a fixed amount of time to get a “gamble”. It’s basically a set of obstacles where you have to stay behind a line and the dog has to get it right by verbal commands. Marcie Qed, getting enough points in the opening AND getting the gamble.
Marcie was also clean in Standard, but .6 seconds over time. ARGH! She took a second.
Maggie got distracted, and went off course once, and came in second. That was Maggie’s best course at that point, she’s only competed about 4 trials.
Saturday was even better. Marcie and I played Snooker. It works like the pool game, I think. There are 3 red jumps, and a small course. You take a red jump, take part of the course, red, another part, etc. Then when you finish that part, you take the course. Marcie took a 1st place in that compeition and Q’ed.
Standard runs were both clean with both dogs, but both were over time. They both had trouble with the weaves and Marcie had trouble with the table.
Marcie had a final jumpers run, which was real fun for both as there are no weaves or table to mess us up. She ran clean and in time, taking another 1st and Qing.
So our total was:
Marcie had 3 Q’s, and got 3 1st places, and 2 2nd places.
Maggie had 2 second places.
It definately means that I’m running better, even with the heel pain.
Some of the news is good, but the misdiagnosis thing needs to be fixed.
Diabetes Care Improved Over Last Decade – Yahoo! News
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the rate of people with diabetes who need hospitalization or develop kidney failure has dropped about a third since the mid-1990s.