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By Dgrant · Posted November 17, 2008
Discussion in Living with diabetes · 0 replies
Hi! My name is Dana, and I'm a type 2 diabetic since 1998 at age 41. I'm 51 now, and last December I had a heart attack and subsequent bypass surgery -- most doctors attributed this to my diabetes. I ...

Why are we here?

By Brian · New reply November 16, 2008
Journal · 124 replies
When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

The next step...

By Memulyn · Posted October 16, 2008
Journal · 0 replies
I had my yearly pap screening in late August and finally got my results back the first of October...I was diagnosed as ASC-H and HPV High Risk positive... Talk about mind blowing...specially after having ...

Trip to a family funeral

By glitterstim · Posted September 23, 2008
Journal · 0 replies
I haven't seen my dad's family in some time. So, when we got the call that my great-uncle had passed away, I was shocked to realize how long it had been since we last saw him. We made the decision to ...

More on why I'm here

By glitterstim · Posted September 20, 2008
Journal · 0 replies
So, I've been reading a little more here and wanted to jot down a few thoughts about what I'm looking for here. I hope that my experiences can also be a help to others. I went through a serious bout with ...

Can I introduce myself here?

By glitterstim · Posted September 20, 2008
Discussion in Living with diabetes · 0 replies
Hi everyone :o) I hope it's okay to do this here.... I'm a single mom of two teenagers. I work full time and am pursuing a PhD. All of my grandparents died of conditions related to or complicated by diabetes ...

Dealing with Type 2 Diabetes

By csl47 · New reply September 20, 2008
Discussion in Living with diabetes · 11 replies
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm having a devil of a time with my diabetes. I can't seem to prevent stress from raising my blood sugar levels. I don't feel the docs I've seen have helped me ...

To work, or NOT to work,

By pearlie · New reply August 26, 2008
Journal · 12 replies
Hi-it's me Pearlie and I have been battling with myself about work. I love my job and my co-workers-but it all makes me so tired. I spend the week,end trying catch up with rest. I have two children ages ...

type 2

By Hammer1958 · Posted August 11, 2008
Journal · 0 replies
I was diagnosed with diabetes on May 16th 2007 after being rushed ,unconcious, to the hospital with a blood glucose reading of 1300.I spent a week in the hospital and started out on Insulin, I was on ...

diabetes type2

By stargazer894 · New reply July 14, 2008
Discussion in Pre-diabetes · 2 replies
i like to know that there is a easy way to check of blood sugars ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

By Walter · New reply July 7, 2008
Journal · 23 replies
Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

Dabetic Type II

By JoAnnRich · New reply June 28, 2008
Journal · 10 replies
I was told in 2000 that I was a diabetic and that because of the uncontrollable at the time the Doctors, put me on Metformin 4x a day 500mg plus in addition to that I am on 80-90 units of Levemir Insulin ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

By Walter · New reply June 22, 2008
Journal · 14 replies
Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

By TeamInspire · New reply April 7, 2008
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Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

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