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
Thanks I had knee surgery both knees 7 months apart. Waited 7 years to get done. As they said diabetic at age 62. Late in life changed my world & health. Retired early. Less money. Out of pocket… read more
According to data demographics in the USA.
We have been told that the diabetes incidence of the general population of the USA is almost 12%
Diabetes is much more common in the 65+ age group than we were led to believe.
29.2% of all adults 65 are diabetic.
By age 75 it is almost 35% diabetic.
So as diagnosed with diabetes, we are not alone. We are almost 1 in every 3, 65 year olds as diabetic.
In my church, there are 11 of us 65 +. All but 3 are diabetic
How have I obtained this… read more
No need to be sorry JW
I have been on Protophiene and Nova Rapid for 25 years with the same problems. By using "Unicity Balance" I have lost over 36kg and dropped my insulin needs by over 80%. I have many friends here in WA… read more
I was reading a few articles and came across a couple that were interesting based on two studies that were just published
The first was from a Canadian University in British Columbia that was crunching numbers from the Covid Pandemic and looking at the long term effects of a Covid infection
(I have posted a bit about this before but now they have some solid numbers)
They looked at 620,000 people who had been (lab diagnosed) as having been infected with Covid and "did not have diabetes" at… read more
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I was informed that I am not a typical diabetic because I was 32 years old when I first was diagnosed with type 2. (first misdiagnosis), than I was diagnosed as, type 1 adult onset Mellitus Autoimmune Diabetes, (2nd wrong) now I'm told that I actually have, LADA Diabetes "1.5 Diabetes" or Latent Autoimmune Diabetes.. the worst is that I've never heard of it. Why is it so hard to understand..
Btw, it was my neurologist of all people who tested for GADA. Not my doctor, my endo or the ICU when I had my DKA "we don't even know what kind of diabetes you have". I had never even heard of this… read more
I have been told that after having this surgery I would no longer have to treat my diabetes. However I am wondering if I would be trading one set of problems for another. Since I have a weight problem being approved is not a problem, but I prefer to do things as naturally as possible. Some insight would be helpful and appreciated.
Diabetes is caused by your bloods cells a/b
There is no cure by losing weight
Cant be done
Great point Tamlyn
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That's how I also felt NtombioxMiya.But now I am OK with it. In my family its only 2 of us who were diagnosed last year. I am 60 years old and my sister 50. We are doing things together and give each… read more