Author: kathleen

The first thing you should do when you are diagnosed with diabetes is to sit down and read your health insurance policies. You need to know what is covered and what isn’t.

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Definately take advantage of Diabetes Educators.

I would caution though, that you look at the program. I was first sent to a company that educates in 2 8-hour days, in a classroom situation. They went out of business shortly after I took the class, so the majority of the benefits — having someone to call and talk to when I had problems was not available.

The other problem is that to cover that material in such a long time period, they had to drive everything to the ground. The whole process was exhausting.

I went to a second company a few weeks ago. This one was organized MUCH better, and I recommend going to this type of diabetes education. This was one on one, 5 hours total.

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Going on insulin was my choice.

Glucophlage made me nuts. I didn’t get a stomach upset, and I did lose a bunch of weight without effort. However, my blood sugars weren’t going down, my anger level was very high which is not good in the high school classroom, the high sugar was making thinking difficult, and life in general wasn’t good.

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