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Specialties: Juevnile Diabetes, Type I Diabetes

eating disorders and type 1 diabetes
Apr 20, 2008 01:54PM in the Diabetes - Juvenile Community
I am so sorry. I was writing partly to YOU, but partly to answer the folks who are trying to lose weight who will be reading this and may get the idea to try this very dangerous method. The websites I listed may be helpful to you, for they all address this dangerous practice, which seems to be something newly popular among diabetic young women. There is a rea...
Looking for supplys part's
Apr 20, 2008 12:18PM in the Diabetes - Juvenile Community
I recommend that you go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) website at www.jdrf.org and click on the link to the Online Diabetes Support Team (ODST), then fill out the request form that pops up. Ask this question, and you will be put in touch with the staff person who handles requests for supplies. I also suggest that you ask to be contacted b...
Diabetic
Apr 20, 2008 12:15PM in the Diabetes - Juvenile Community
I would suggest that you make an appointment with your doctor and ask him/her to run a hemoglobin a1c test. The reason for this suggestion is that any random test such as the fasting test you ran on yourself shows only what your glucose levels are at that particular moment. What your doctor will want to know is how your body's glucose levels run all the time,...
severe headache
Apr 19, 2008 06:55PM in the Diabetes - Juvenile Community
I am not clear about whether you are a type 1 diabetic or not. Your posting doesn't tell us. Severe headaches can be related to either high or low blood sugar for type 1 diabetic people, but they usually subside once the blood glucose problem is solved. So your headaches don't sound like they are related to blood sugar issues. Maybe hormonal (if you are femal...
eating disorders and type 1 diabetes
Apr 19, 2008 06:51PM in the Diabetes - Juvenile Community
Wow, this is so tough. Those of us who volunteer for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation can attest to the horrors that are related to us by young people who didn't think that high glucose levels were hurting themselves until irreversible complications set in. I remember one 18-year-old who contacted us after she developed diabetic cataracts (yes, this ...
Type 2- Reversible? few doubts
Apr 18, 2008 08:38PM in the Diabetes - Juvenile Community
It wouldn't change the genes, meaning that if a person has a genetic predisposition to be likely to become a type 2 diabetic, it will always be important for that person to watch his or her weight, exercise, and eat healthily. The genes won't be gotten rid of by doing this, so they do continue to be passed on in families. But that doesn't mean that all of the...