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Bewildering Acronym Cheat-Sheet

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For newcomers. Some of these are medical, some of them are unique to this forum or to Internet forums in general:
  • HCP -- Health-Care Professional (doctor or nurse, typically)
  • PWD -- Person With Diabetes (the preferred phrase, replacing the older term "diabetic")
  • IR -- Insulin Resistance
  • HbA1C -- Gylcated Hemoglobin test, the gold standard for diagnosing diabetes and monitoring it in the long term (often abbreviated to just "A1C")
  • OP -- Original Post, or Original Poster (the first "post" in a "thread")
For what it's worth, I try to avoid using the acronyms (or I try to provide an explanation) if I know that the OP is a "newbie." I am a relative newbie myself and still struggle with some of the abbreviations and acronyms that turn up here.

OK, I've started the ball rolling, your turn!
 

We've got a page (or 2) for this. (You can find it in the Newly Diagnosed forum).

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/abbreviations.87936/
 
The 3 that immediately spring to my mind are:
DSN - Diabetic Specialist Nurse
BG - Blood Glucose
LCHF - Low Carb High Fat
 
urbanracer said:
We've got a page (or 2) for this. (You can find it in the Newly Diagnosed forum).

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/abbreviations.87936/
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Oh good, I apologize for the redundancy. At least we now have an extra reminder of it here.

Edited to add: It is amazing how much information is on this website. Not just the forum threads (sticky or otherwise) but also the factual articles reachable through the homepage. I've been a member since September but still keep finding (or being pointed to) new stuff.

Well done!
 
I know that some members write 'bm' in place of 'bg' but what does the 'bm' stand for? Eg '"My bm level is good" instead of "My bg level is good".
 
Guzzler said:
I know that some members write 'bm' in place of 'bg' but what does the 'bm' stand for? Eg '"My bm level is good" instead of "My bg level is good".
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Yeah I wonder that too as I usually take it to mean bowel movement which makes for some interesting threads...
 
bulkbiker said:
Yeah I wonder that too as I usually take it to mean bowel movement which makes for some interesting threads...
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We won't mention the 'bs' levels then?
 
Can’t remember the name exactly but from working in a hospital I remember that BM stands for Boeringer Mein.... something or other, it’s the name of the brand of meter that was used in the hospital
EDIT Thanks to Google and Wikipedia it’s Boehringer Mannheim part of Roche
 
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Re Metformin, I wish there was an acronym for diahorroahh because I can't spell it.
 
Guzzler said:
I know that some members write 'bm' in place of 'bg' but what does the 'bm' stand for? Eg '"My bm level is good" instead of "My bg level is good".
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I also wonder what it means.

I would like to add
FBG - fasting blood glucose

Because many posters mean that when they say BGs. and this then leads to further questioning sometimes.
 
Could always be blood monitor I guess especially if you add "reading" after it...
Other suggestions were Barry Manilow
Batman
British Museum...
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Yes, saw that, but surely people that use BM don't really mean Boehringer Mannheim, or do they?
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It is definitely used in hospital by nurses as in “I need to check Bill Bloggs’ BM”, meaning I need to check his blood sugar. I assume people on here have just picked it up from them.
 
Rachox said:
It is definitely used in hospital by nurses as in “I need to check Bill Bloggs’ BM”, meaning I need to check his blood sugar. I assume people on here have just picked it up from them.
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Yes, more than likely. Perhaps next time we see it we should ask!
 
There's one that turns up sometimes. It is something like NLAP or NDLAP (sorry, I cannot find an example of it). It stumps me everytime, and I cannot find it in the sticky thread in Newly Diagnosed. Next time I find a reference to it I'll holler here, unless someone can figure it out from my cryptic reference.
 
When in hospital BM was always the term used - I was told it was shorthand for blood monitoring results
 
NAFLD perhaps.. Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
 
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