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An official Travel Dose Calculator ; http://www.diabetestravel.org/ Its easy to use, and gives good advice although it a little on the cautious side (as it should be, I guess) with the number of checks it recommends....

I think the theory makes a lot of sense, as long as we use "lifestyle" and "environment" interchangeably. There are articles like this one about bad air causing metabolic distress, theories about PCBs, BPAs and other acronym-ed chemicals and compounds being poor for our general health. I can't...

I used it for a while, no major problems and it helped a bunch with post-meal highs. It won't replace poor habits otherwise (eating without injecting/bolusing), but it made a good difference for me. There are two varieties of metformin, the "regular" version (take 2-4 times a day) and the...

If you get to your destination and immediately adopt life at the new timezone, I wouldn't worry about it at all! However, I don't ever manage anything that graceful, and I usually end up going to bed at 6pm or 4am or something equally abnormal, so I try to adjust my pump such that when I do...

My go-to practice for flying half way around the world (which I loosely define as any trip taking more than 18 hours one-way, or crossing more than 4 timezones): Make sure I have vial of insulin and syringes in easy access location in carry-on bag, not because I've ever needed them mid-flight...