{"id":2314,"date":"2006-01-04T16:55:07","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/living-the-diab\/"},"modified":"2006-01-04T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T16:55:07","slug":"living-the-diab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/living-the-diab\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Diabetes Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Diabetes Mine: Amylin's Colorful CEO, and AOL's Stake in Diabetes Blogging\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diabetesmine.com\/2006\/01\/_amylins_colorf.html#trackback\">Diabetes Mine: Amylin&#8217;s Colorful CEO, and AOL&#8217;s Stake in Diabetes Blogging<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Type 1 bloggers are very upset by the Amylin&#8217;s statement that she tests her blood sugar once a day to &#8220;live the diabetes life&#8221;, and rightly so.<\/p>\n<p>One thing to keep in mind, is that Byetta is potentially a bigger money maker than Symlin, and Symlin is exculsively for Type 1 at the current time.  So her largest market share is Byetta.<\/p>\n<p>However, they also forget that is often the Type 2 Diabetics life.  When I first was diagnosed, I was given a prescription and told to test my blood sugar.  I was given this schedule:<\/p>\n<p>Monday:  Test in the morning<br \/>\nTuesday: Test before lunch<br \/>\nWednesday: Test before dinner<br \/>\nThursday: Test before going to bed<br \/>\nFriday: Test in the morning<br \/>\nSaturday: Test before lunch<br \/>\nSunday: Test before dinner<\/p>\n<p>Why?  Well many insurance plans will only cover 50 strips a month for non-insulin using diabetics.  Some only over 100 strips.  Over a long time period, this will give the doctor a picture.  Not an inaccurate picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetes Mine: Amylin&#8217;s Colorful CEO, and AOL&#8217;s Stake in Diabetes Blogging The Type 1 bloggers are very upset by the Amylin&#8217;s statement that she tests her blood sugar once a day to &#8220;live the diabetes life&#8221;, and rightly so. One thing to keep in mind, is that Byetta is potentially a bigger money maker than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}