I will be traveling from Texas to Philadelphia soon, and am a new user
of Byetta for Type 2 diabetes.  Does anyone have experience of what
cool pack works best for traveling and for keeping the pens cool at a
hotel?  Also, is it true that hotels are required to provider

Hello again, everyone.
The earlier posts about 'the sea" reminded me of some of the lyrics to
this immortal song from the Righteous Brothers, back in the 60s....
Have you noticed that many of these sea songs are about that eternal

I am not a group novice can l get some help from an expert? l don't
like being a voyeur. How do l get a response from a post?

Can someone tell me what a normal HbA1c range is?  I read the faq and
saw a range of 3 to 6.1 but am not sure this referred to HbA1c.
Dolores

Well, it's Monday. What shall I do for excitement tonight? Last Monday I
missed my grillfest but I enjoyed the dinner out. I'd like to try something
new but I ran out of strips. I'll take the script in this afternoon but
won't get any till Tuesday. Maybe I'll make a big flatbread ...

Genome-wide association studies provide new insights into type 2 diabetes
aetiology
Timothy M. Frayling
Abstract

Hello friends,
Here is an exquisite performance of a timeless piece by a lovely young
lady... Claire de Lune, by Debussy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bINSmhssRRs

"Moreover, plasma adiponectin concentrations in humans correlated
negatively with visceral fat area in both genders [26]. This negative
correlation was stronger with visceral adiposity than with
subcutaneous adiposity [27,28]."

I have had too many medical mistakes recently to suit me. Is it me or
is medicine or the practice of it not what it use to be? Is it because
of t.v. or what? I want to go into detail but it is all so complicated
and almost unbelievable. Let me just say it started with procrit and

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I was diagnozed Type 2 about 6 months ago.  My BG is being controlled quite
well - A1c 6.0 -  I have been taking Glucophage but now have been prescribed
the generic Metmorfin free from our health service.  I would welcome opinions
whether the generic drug is as good.

You eat something "bad" ie. refined, sugary sugar, such as BBQ sauce
and then test after say 30 mins and you hit a 236.  Then retest 2 mins
later and it's 200.  Then again in 2 hours and it's 99.  Apparently
I've been thinking I've been getting away with weekend BBQ's with the

Hello friends,
How many of you are familiiar with the work of Erik Satie? Well, even
if you think you are not, here are a couple of compositions that are
rather like "tone poems", in that they evoke a certain mood and sense

Anybody notice that the Abbott Medisense Optium blood glucose meter
looks exactly like the ReliOn Ultima meter sold at Walmart (except for
the label?)
The strips appear to be the same, as well, but carry a warning only to

I just saw a new article on asprin on MSN   ( http://health.msn.com ).
The condensed story is
taking a baby aspirin in the morning caused a slight  2.6 mm rise in
systolic bp but taking