Some folks here like to model the body and bg's analytically/
mathematically. Here's a silly question:
I find that one unit of insulin lowers my bg about 30 mg/dl.
I take about 40 units of insulin a day.

I found 2 values;  6.2 Hr - Plasma,  17.6 Hr - Blood.
Which would be the effective half-life?
I go see my Dr. next week and want to ask for multiple doses during the day,
or an extended release.  Don't have an Endocrinologist yet.

Seeing doctor today.  I have been seeing a Podiatrist, and he is doing
testing.  The thing is, if they put me on meds, which one?  I think I used
Neurontin in past...been so long, can't remember, and that was more for mood
stabilization.  Only dx T2 since March.  Anyway, been ...

Howdy;
I start Byetta tomorrow and was wondering if you could
provide the name of an internet store that sells the pen
needles at a fairly inexpensive price.  My search with

"My experience has been that doctors will give you a clear-cut,
understandable diagnosis only if you wander in with, say, an ice pick
protruding from your skull. And even then, you have to pretend that

There is a VERY good chance that she already had DM before pregnancy, and
she could be a diabetic who is pregnant, the pregnancy binging out the DM,
rather than it being GD.  She's not had to see a doctor where it might have
been picked up prior to this.

For the record--I was diagnosed with diabetes in 1976.  The
doc used a latin word to means-- physician induced.    
I had been put n a drug called Enduronyl..  It
was not needed.

This article concludes that only if T2D your brain will not signal that you
eat glucose or any other carbohydrate (?) , so you keep eating , so you get
more problems.So low carb is better (?)
They tested Glucose itself , one wonders if it works the same for any

con.sisting insulin reactions after meals.i am on a insulin pump and
check my sugar often so i know what my sugar is before and afetr i
eat.for instance 7-10-07meal time had`nt taken any insulin in prior
3-4 hours bg had maintained the 90`s entire afernoon.meal time bg

My brother has a neighbor in his 60s who is very "slow" (I don't know the PC
phrase). He is unemployed and lives on some sort of state (of Georgia)
relief including his medical care.
Anyway, slow man lives alone, is a newly diagnosed type 1 diabetic and is

Hello friends...
As many of you know, I am married to a true gourmet cook. Well,
tonight I sampled a portion of "to die for" blueberry baclava, made
with fresh blueberries, chopped walnuts, honey, and tabouli... Yes, it

As a result of the things I learned in this news froup, I purchased last
night one of those high percentage gourmet dark chocolate bars.
Lindt has one with 85% cocoa.  $1.99 for 3.5 oz.
8 carbs per four (big) squares, 20 for the whole bar.

Are any of you part of the Zyprexa anti-depressant class action lawsuit?
My glucose level did not go up until after I'd taken Zyprexa.  And no
history of diabetes in the family.
Just wondering---

Overdid it tonight. Wierd...1 hour pp: 190, 2 hr. pp:97. Oh well, I
knocked a week off my life with that incursion.

I swear this is getting sooo frustrating.
Restarted the Januvia and although it dropped my numbers some, they weren't
as low as I wanted sometimes.
Last night I made hotdogs and Bush's baked beans for dinner.  I despise