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Sep 18th 2007 7:33AM I always read this blog! I am so annoyed! Allie, how could they do this?!
The thing that people with diabetes.hate the most
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Sep 11th 2007 6:12AM Hi Allie, you know what I hate - it is the inflexibility of a life with diabetes. Think to be really free to eat when you want, exercise when you want, sleep when you want. Rvery minute has to be so darned planned. That is what I hate. My body is so use to hypos that it has learned to cope. Dare I even say that?!
Average blood glucose instead of HbA1c
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Jul 7th 2007 3:57AM Actually it is very simple - don't we just want our bodies to keep the bg level as it would be in a person without diabetes, at about 80-90mg/dl AND stable. Not one or the other but both. Science today does not understand many of the factors that affect our bg values. It is this that makes handling diabetes so difficult. Food, exercise and insulin are just the easy factors we can play with. Stress we know affects us but who can really control that well. Honestly, until our knowledge is increased dramatically all we can do is keep chugging away at trying to ilitate a correctly funtioning pancreas. One more thing, it is easier to maintain stability when bg values are low, so for this reason it is really just an excuse if you accept high values. The more food you eat, the more insulin you take, the more aggressive exercises you take part in the harder it is to fine tune the exactly correct amount needed. It is the fine stuning that achieves stability.
Is Human Synthetic Insulin a Cock Block?
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Apr 19th 2007 5:55AM Yeah I love the discussion happening here.... exactly what I try to encourage on my blog at http://chrissieinblegium.blogspot.com ! I spoke with my endo just yesterday about the lack of c-peptides in currently available insulins, in my case humalog. His quick answer stating that they have absolutely no importance REALLY ANNOYED ME!
Green Light for DiabeCell Phase 1
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Apr 19th 2007 5:44AM I find this study particularly interesting b/c of the availability of porcine islet cells and that immunorepressive drugs were not necessary!
Chrissie in Belgium
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Exercise Control of your Heart Rate
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Apr 19th 2007 5:41AM Allie, I am wondering if exercise can improve the health of the vagus nerve? Does this study answer this question? Being a T1 for 45 years my vagus nerve does not function properly. Bernstein speaks of the importance of assessing the vagus nerve in his book Diabetes Solution.
Irreconcilable Differences - I'm Divorcing the ADA
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Apr 12th 2007 10:13AM WHAT a reply! Yes, being Swedish myself, I have followed the C-peptide studies in Sseden. By the way I am back from Croatia.....
Caffeine Impairs Sugar Metabolism
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Mar 25th 2007 2:11AM I must say there is so much conflicting info on caffeine and diabetes! Doesn't peanut butter on a slice of bread slow the bg increase of carbs in the bread? How else does peanut butter affect diabetics? I am curious b/c I eat peanut butter every day! Thanks Allie, from me - Chrissie at http://chrissieinbelgium.blogspot.com
Social Stress is Depressing - Be the Dog!
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Mar 16th 2007 7:13AM Stress definitely messes my bg values. I have had TI for 45 years. Even though you KNOW you shouldn't get all stressed out, sometimes you just do. If you have a low or high bg value, just THAT is enough to make one over react to a given situation. Concerning, Lissa's point about the dog, I DO get her message, but I had to point out that dogs DO have different personalities too. Some are happy to see anyone and others are more reserved....
Vagus nerve inerference may prevent diabetes and hypertension
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Feb 10th 2007 1:57AM Dr. Bernstein, in the his book 'The Diabetes Solution', emphasizes the importance of testing the vagus nerve in all his diabetic patients, T1s and T2s. Most diabetics have an impairment of the vagus nerve after having diabetes for several year. I have hhad D for 45 years. I had my vagus nerve checked and it is "dead", although my diabetes is very well controlled and a very healthy T1. My last HbA1c was 5.2%! I also have hypo unawareness. I am wondering if the hypo unawareness is perhaps related to the dysfunction of the vagus nerve? Also I find it interesting that I am not at all insulin resistant - my total daily dose of insulin is only 14U of humalog via an insulin pump! I find the research related to the role of the vagus nerve to diabetes (T1 and T2) very, very intriguing. All sorts of question arise!
