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    Insurance with diabetes

    Good luck! My husband, a type 2, lost his license to drive tractor trailer for the post office here in NYS... Personally, diabetics are healthier than the average person because they always have to watch what they eat. Insurance companies are the biggest money makers . I'm originally from...
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    Porridge - good or bad for breakfast

    I've made oatmeal cookies for him, using homemade applesauce....they don't come out as good as the ones with all that brown sugar, etc...but they are not bad. We have great apples here..my favorite is golden delicious....so sweet, but they come out in October...late.
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    Porridge - good or bad for breakfast

    porridge...is that like oatmeal?? Oatmeal is a slower acting carb...and so good for u....I had my gall bladder out, and it's one thing I have to be careful with...but I'm not the diabetic here...I only know of porridge thru nursery rhymes??? lol... i'm not crazy about low sugar stuff, like...
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    Insulin pen training video for all levels

    really Chris...I would like to know, why my husband's endo dr dropped him from 20 to 9 units of lantus, JUST because I caught him sneaking food one night......low blood sugars is serious yes...but so is high....we've had to find another dr, and he had better be good! I've had it with running...
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    Need a diet

    there are so many good books out there....our support group put out a cookbook years ago....depending on how pizza is made, it is one of the worst foods a diabetic can eat at night! Especially if canned or jarred sauce is used....there is so much corn syrup in it....then there is the dough...
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    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    ok can someone please explain those numbers to me??? the readings look like a1cs.... do brits go by different numbers than we do in the states??? I mentioned how my husband's sugars were reading 500 and more.....when it read HI< I thought the meter was saying good morning?? we have so...
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    New Doctors

    lol...take another shower??? I doubt that is the reason, but it's like no one cares anymore....we are seeing a new endo dr in 2 wks.... our first one doesn't seem to get it....I have jeans older than she is like I probably posted before...I'm giving him TWICE the amt of lantus that she is...
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    How do you get on with Lantus?

    interesting article....i'm sick of husband dealing with lantus..now I hear there are some better ones out there??? I'm definitely going to find out today, and will be taking a lot of notes! Low blood sugars have caused my husband to act like he has dementia or maybe he does..who knows...
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    Help with new diagnosis and very high blood glucose

    In Feb of 2015, my husband didn't feel good and went to a walk in clinic...they told him to go home and sleep it off.. when he was due for a cataract operation that may..he went for the pre op tests.....our dr said he had a heart attack in feb??? So much for walk ins... he had to have a...
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    Help with new diagnosis and very high blood glucose

    Good luck! We are on our way to the dr.... I am tired of getting no help from anyone, including an endocrinologist ...my husband has trouble with lantus..his AM sugars have been 500 and over all of a sudden, because she decided to cut him from 20 to 9???? No one seems to care and I am...
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