Category Archives: Type 1 Diabetes
Insulin Pump Injection Site Update
When I moved my insulin pump a couple of days ago, I stuck it in my belly fat, and my insulin usage went straight up like 80 units per day. It looks like picking a spot that doesn’t have 31 … Continue reading
Rethinking Your Insulin Injection Spot
I put my insulin pump back on the other day, after about a year without it, and had a couple of surprises. The first was that I forgot how the thing worked, the second was that I’ve had it for … Continue reading
Free Diet Tracking Software
I use a piece of free software that I got from Spaz.ca, called the CRON-o-Meter, to track my weight and everything I eat. The CRON-o-Meter was originally designed for the practitioners of the “Calorie Restriction Diet”, but it works for … Continue reading
Diabetics, Diabetes and Smoking
OK, this is an e-cigarette commercial. I wasn’t going to start it out this way, but that’s what it is. I love to smoke. I’ve smoked since I was 17 years old, and I’m now 44. I’ve also been a … Continue reading
Lantus, Not Lantis (Learning to Spell)
OK, I’ve been taking Lantus for like 2 years now, and just noticed it’s spelled Lantus, not Lantis. Nothing like running a Diabetes blog and not knowing how to spell the names of diabetic medications. So, since I obviously don’t … Continue reading
what happens to a type 1 diabetic if they dont take insulin for 1 week?
OK, that question keeps showing up in my log files for this site, so I’m going to answer it because it scares the hell out of me that anyone would be asking it. The answer is: If a type 1 … Continue reading
Insulin Prescriptions
Here’s a question for all of you type 1 diabetics out there. When do type 1 diabetics get to quit taking insulin? I bet you didn’t know there was a time, I bet you thought that you would have to … Continue reading
Underactive Thyroid & Diabetes
I have hypothyroidism, and have had it since 1989. I didn’t know why I was gaining weight and didn’t have any energy. The Doctor’s finally figured it out, and now I take Armor Thyroid every day. Most people take Synthroid, … Continue reading
Glycobiology and Glyconutrition’s Roll In Type 1 Diabetes
There is a really interesting article at Ezinearticles.com that was written by a CardioVascular surgeon named Dr. Robert Gamble. Here’s a little piece of the article: “Glyconutrition is the nutritional provision which provides the body with healthy CELLULAR COMMUNICATION. In … Continue reading
Low Testosterone and Diabetes: Increasing Testosterone Helps
About 15 years ago, an Endocrinologist I was going to in Portland, Oregon told me that over 80% of his male, type1, diabetic patients required testosterone for their systems to work correctly. He said that Testosterone, along with thyroid, where … Continue reading
