Worrying about extreme low blood sugars is common for many people with type 1, but there are also some people who are so concerned about continuously high blood sugars they keep their numbers dangerously low.
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Being diabetic is hard. Being a diabetic with celiac disease is harder. But both are manageable, as a young college student discovers as she navigates her way through two autoimmune diseases.
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Maureen Gitau traveled all the way from Africa to attend TCOYD’s ONE Conference & Retreat in August. She shares some of her experiences of what it’s like to live with type 1 diabetes in Kenya.
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In honor of Diabetes Awareness Month, Dan Knecht, VP of Health Strategy & Innovation at CVS Health spoke with experts Dr. Steve Edelman, MD, founder and director of Taking Control Of Your Diabetes, and Joy Pape, R.N., a nationally known family nurse practitioner and certified diabetes educator, to discuss how to address needs of people living with diabetes and the providers who deliver diabetes care.
read more →He won the prize for traveling the farthest distance to 2018’s ONE Conference & Retreat (from Dubai!) and has been living with type 1 for over 20 years. Here’s how diabetes has impacted his life, and why he wants to give back to the diabetes community.
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Dr. P and Dr. E share tips 6-10 of their top 10 tips on how to stay sane living with diabetes. This condensed version came from Dr. Pettus’ lecture at our 2019 ONE Conference & Retreat.
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Injections are now optional for Ozemic…the FDA recently approved an oral form of Ozempic called Rybelsus, which is the first GLP-RA of its kind for people with type 2 diabetes.
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CDEs are diabetes specialists who help make diabetes fit into your world, instead of making your world fit into diabetes. Most visits with CDEs are covered by insurance, and the benefit is free with Medicare.
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It’s normal for blood sugar to rise after eating, but if the spike is too high it can affect your mood in the moment and contribute to health problems down the road. Here are a few strategies to keep it under control.
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Starting a new job can give anyone a little anxiety, but when diabetes is thrown in the mix it can be a lot more stressful. Here are a couple of strategies that can help ease the transition to a new work environment.
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