This is the blood sugar monitor I use. My insurance company wants me to go to an Accu-Check monitor, but I like this one too much. The extra copay is worth it.
Author: kathleen
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Diabetes Educators
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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Why are you on Insulin — Type 2’s don’t need insulin!
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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Recent News article about obesity
This sort of thing really irritates me:
CNN.com – Surgeon general to cops: Put down the donuts – Feb. 28, 2003
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The Beginning
If you don’t have to do a glucose tolerance test DON’T.
I went to one unsuspecting, and the bad part was, that I probably had bad enough fasting blood sugars in a year’s set of tests, to warrant skipping that.
So I tell people all the time, I “flunked” the glucose tolerance test, and that I didn’t … that is didn’t tolerate glucose.
And see if you can find a lab that can process the blood immediately. I didn’t get any treatment until the next Monday and even then we didn’t know how bad off I was.
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Diabetes Pilot
If you have a Palm Pilot this is super software for logging and tracking what is going on with your diabetes.
You can import the data into either Excel or Word, which really impressed by Diabetes Educator.
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Mayo Clinic’s Website on Diabetes
Lots of good information. The more you know, the less out of control you feel. Or at least it works for me.
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WebMD – Diabetes Message Boards
This is a good place to ask questions. You’ll get responses from other people who have had a similar experience.