Yeah, diabetes affects everything and this is not something I don’t think about very often, so I am sure it is helpful for others.
MSN Health & Fitness – Dental care and diabetes: The importance of a healthy mouth
Dental care and diabetes: The importance of a healthy mouth
(Anyone with brilliant ideas on how to motivate people to take better care of themselves can contact Dr. Polonsky’s institute here. Make sure to cc me at amy@diabetesmine.com as well!)
Hmmm, maybe I should contact him. I’ve studied behavior analysis for years on both a theoritical basis and a concrete basis for years.
Between training beagles for dog agility and teaching high school students technology, and between working on myself as a diabetes patient, I’m got a lot of practical work done.
One of the biggest problems with motivating diabetes patients, is that it hard to come up with tangible rewards. Also the “noncompliant” behaviors tend to be self rewarding. It’s always hard to eliminate self rewarding behavior.
It’s a cute little device, probably best for emergencies, because I doubt you can download from it.
http://www.prestigesmartsystem.com/products-sidekick.asp
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.