I've always been needle phobic and my doc now wants me to inject Ozempict. I can barely cope getting a flu shot or something like that. I practically need to take sedation if I have to give blood samples. I just don't know how I'm going to do this.

He told me that an ozempik pill is coming out but no one has any experience with it. I'm driving myself crazy trying to decide between injections which will make me faint and a pill nobody has taken. Its crazy I know, but if you've never injected… read more

I'm DT1. I'm in hyperglycemia a lot when it's very hot and humid... Do you also experience this? How do you deal with it?

You can't turn on the TV or read the news from any source without hearing endlessly about the Opioid Crisis

It's killing thousands - they are dying in the streets and in the fanciest homes in the City

Every level of government is tripping over themselves trying to find solutions and throwing tons of money (our tax money by the way) at the problem and it just keeps getting worse

But just how bad IS the CRISIS?

Pretty Bad - in Canada (2022 - last year of full statistics) we saw a rate of 19.3… read more

Apart from anything else it’s too vague and woolly a statement to have any meaning.

I got Cervical Myelopathy in 2002 and was told by the neurologist that I’d “be in a wheelchair in two years”. Now if I wasn’t so resilient I might have given up at that moment and resigned myself to my fate. Instead I lost 3 stone (42lbs) to bring me back to the normal weight category. I also walk a lot and go to the gym where the back extension machine keeps my spine in good shape.

It’s not that I’m saying… read more

After a year and 1/2 they just figured it out (was misdiagnosed with diabetes type 2, now it's 1.5: a bit of both 1 and 2 , and possible thymus cancer can cause it too). If you have have had a thyroid issue that's all it takes. I've had couple of autoimmune conditions. And my dad has too. Turns out my epilepsy is autoimmune too. Interesting thing about the diabetes: one of my two hospitals has an an autoimmune diabetes specialist. Apparently it's a newer type of doctor.

All of us here have either been diagnosed with Diabetes or have someone close to us that have been given the news

So what is the "criteria" that separates us from Joe or Jane SugerEater?

Currently it is simply having an A1C, above 6.5% (47.5 mmol's in the IFCC scale) "twice in a row" measured 90 days apart

That's it, that's all - that "test" is all that is required for the Doc to determine "You have Diabetes"

No matter what you do after that, no matter how you control your blood sugar - no… read more