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dealing with pneumonia for past two weeks; eating is nauseating and i've lost some weight recently. today: coffee with sugar-free creamer

just got lab results from yesterday back, and my A1c was 6.4, which doesn't surprise me considering i spent more than a week off my pump because of not being able to get my pump supplies, thanks to changing health insurance companies (yes, i live in the US), and woke up on the first day...

FYI: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-that-change-who-we-are? BBC AND statins mucking up LOTS of people?

sleepster Apparently so ;) yes, i was thinking something similar, as i'm 49 and was diagnosed in October 1978. but while the medical community in the US is recommending statins for us Type-1s, personally my endocrinologist never mentioned them to me, although it is in every after-visit report i...

which is PRECISELY what mine is, a 90-day range of everything from my odd 400+ as well as my 40-whatever. on the other hand, i've been type-1 since October 1978 and the only complication i've had is cataract surgery in 2008, three years before my mother had it. my last three HbA1c readings were...

just before i got my insulin pump in 2013 (my old one had completely died, i didn't have health insurance, and my 2013 ADA deductible hadn't been met (the $8000 insulin pump took care of that), i lost just over three hours while sitting at my desk. apparently, that was enough time for my liver...

so how's it going? were you able to find this item for trying? i haven't tried the Libre a third time yet, but then again, it seems like my readings are staying out of the cellar right now...

MsBea, I know you said you've tried the TegaDerm, but weren't happy with it. But did you try the TegaDerm with the pad in the middle? Much like the person who said they were using the kinesiology tape, but leaving the adhesive on the middle part, to keep the sensor from dislodging, they make...

SweetSophia, i'm in the US. the app is available for both iOS (Apple iPhone) and for Android, which has only been available for a short time. Abbott (the company behind it) only has a telephone support line... 1-855-632-8658 Hours of operation: Monday through Friday 8am to 8pm Eastern Time...

as i mentioned, i've been donating for more than a decade (more than five gallons worth). granted, in the forty+ years i have been T-1 D, the only complication i have had is cataract surgery in 2008 (knock wood, may my luck with this continue), but i know eventually i will have to stop...i'm...

i just read this and cannot fathom the silliness of the NHS in this matter: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/can-people-with-diabetes-give-blood.html as someone who has had T-1 diabetes for MORE THAN 40 years, who is in relatively good health with bare minimum complications (cataract surgery in...

yes, 40 years last October. a few days later, on Halloween, i fell in the parking lot, fractured my skull in three places, and still have no clue as to why it happened (not low glucose, i didn't slip nor misplace my foot)...just fell

LESS? really? if anything, i've had the opposite effect. still haven't been able to figure out the difference in the interstitial and glucose as sometimes it can be close (within 10 points), while others it can be vastly different (upwards of 50 points). and wasting an entire day before...

HEMOGLOBIN A1C 6.7 % 22 April 2019 :writer: HEMOGLOBIN A1C 7.0 % 14 January 2019 :writer: meh...don't ask me about Halloween 2018, you WON'T like what i have to say about it...but if i didn't hate the holiday before that date, i certainly do now. T1- D since October 1978, only complication...

oh, let me give you some words of wisdom on this subject, for whatever they might be worth. i have been T-1 since 1978. i was thinking i would be lucky to see age 50, but now, i may be around for another decade, possibly more. and while there are things i cannot speak to you to (i live in the...