Hi stabbers and jabbers out there,
Received in the morning pile of junk mail an offer from Roche for a free
upgrade of my bg meter to an Avivia kit.
I am currently using a Glucotrend with a Softclix II stabber, (lancet

I started metformin since my previous CT Scan so I was a bit
surprised when I received a warning from the nurse just
before and again after the scan to get an extra blood test
and to take no more metformin until after the doc had

Here is an article on diabetic neuropathy I found which I thought was
interesting and seemingly well researched.The article has links to a couple
of sites at the end, but doesn't appear to be selling anything specific.
Certainly worth a careful read.Apologies in advance if someone ...

3/16/2006
http://charlierose.com/
A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE DIABETES EPIDEMIC WITH:
MARC SANTORA, The New York Times

Hey All,
A couple of issues have come up importing animal insulin from
the UK.
Wockhardt is insisting on a new letter from the doc each time.

What's best method that any diabetic person can adjust his BG level near the
normal  all the times so that checking the BG after each meal became very
borring ?!!!!
Thanks

"A transplant-free approach to curing Type 1 diabetes using medication
has been reaffirmed in tests on mice, according to a Washington
University study."
http://tinyurl.com/hxt9d

My standard rice pudding recipe is a killer with 1/2c sugar - no
surprise, right?  Tomorrow I'm going substitute Splenda for the sugar.
The UofI food nutrient analyzer claims that without sugar the entire
dish has only ~75g of carb, so 1/4 of the recipe should be manageable

this is what's been going on the past few weeks:
Sweetheart got the mother of all colds two days before we were supposed to
go to AZ.
I had to have blood work done and was found to have low sodium caused by the

According to the Diabetes Self-Management WEB site below, Fenugreek
works for controlling BG.  Anyone tried this?  Does it help?
The implication form sited research is 100mg or less but all I can
find in pill form is 6x that.  Is there a pill form 100mg?

            11/05      3/06
A1c    5.1    5.3
Chol    112    100
HDL    38    35

Sadly, i want to say that i have been diagnosed diabetic few days back
. I was a real sweet lover , now its gone from my life. I have been
diagnosed with diabetes 2 type . Can anybody suggest me some remedy for
it . I want to keep the sugar under control and enjoy to have little

Has anyone had any success with this drug?

Anyone in here use Byetta?  I am on my second month, I think is works really
well.  Just wondering if anyone has any success stories about it.
CS

A couple of studies posted in here recently used a very small sampling
- 10 to 15 - group.  So I am conducting a survey and hoping for at
least that many:
Are you Type 1 or Type 2?