Compare your results with the machine from the doctor’s office when you attend your doctor’s appointment. This will reveal if there are any discrepancies.
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetic
It’s the first Monday of the new year, the perfect time to start implementing our health goals that we’ve set for ourselves.
Don’t give up if you don’t get it right at first. Keep trying and stay consistent.
Nothing can stop you from meeting your health goals!
📝 What health goals are you working on this week (emotional, physical, or mental)?
📝 What will you do to keep yourself accountable?
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetic
It has been exactly 20 years today since my grandmother passed away. My grandmother was a fierce, intelligent woman who held our family together.
I was a teenager when my grandma’s health declined. She had congestive heart failure, diabetes, and was legally blind. As a teen, I did not understand the extent of her health problems nor how they related.
Now that I’m living with the same diabetes diagnosis, I understand what my grandma was going through, how diabetes and heart disease are linked and how those issues can potentially limit your life.
It’s my mission to share what I’ve learned with people with diabetes and their loved ones. There is a family history of diabetes on both sides, and I just want to do my part in changing the narrative.
On this day of remembrance, I want to encourage you to keep your health in check: learn more about your condition, maintain a healthy diabetes management routine, and if you need help, don’t be afraid to ask. Don’t let diabetes limit your life.
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetic
Rough day so far….
From school schedules changes, school project mishaps, juggling it all while hubby has an appointment to social media mishaps. I’m just not feeling it, but God is still God. God is still good and He will see me through this day.
Find joy in the mess ❤️
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetic
Hey everyone!
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted! A lot has been going on, but I’m currently working on updating the blog and adding some new features.
One of the new features I’ve added includes the ability to add video so I can now do Vlogs in addition to blogs which I’m extremely excited about.
In this video, I discuss the roles of influencer, advocate and ambassador and why it’s important to know your role, purpose and why.
Click on the video above to view my first Vlog 😀 Feel free to leave a comment below of your thoughts.
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetic
World Diabetes Day 2021 theme from the International Diabetes Federation
The availability of insulin and other elements of diabetes care remains out of reach for millions who need them. People with diabetes are at risk of severe and life-threatening complications, especially if they do not receive adequate support or treatment. Complications include:
🔸Heart Attack
🔸Stroke
🔸Kidney Failure
🔸Blindness
🔸Lower Limb Amputation
What can be done to improve access to diabetes care worldwide? It all starts with our lawmakers. We need to keep our state and federal lawmakers accountable in ensuring that our healthcare system:
🔹Provide basic health care at a reasonable cost to people with diabetes
🔹Develop policies to improve prevention of type 2 diabetes
🔹Enhance screening to ensure timely diagnosis and prevent complications resulting from diabetes
🔹Develop mechanisms to engage people with diabetes in the development of diabetes policies
As we’re voting for newly elected officials today, make sure the candidate you’re voting for is willing to support health equity for all.
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetes
Start doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible.
And suddenly, you’re doing the impossible!
This Monday, let’s start by doing the necessary!
💙 What is your “necessary”? Can be health-related or general.
💙 What goals for the week will help you accomplish your necessary?
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetic
A GAD antibody test can detect LADA through the detection of elevated levels of pancreatic autoantibodies in patients with diabetes who do not require insulin. These antibodies also predict the rate of progression towards insulin deficiency.
Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is known by its unofficial name, type 1.5 diabetes. The body’s own immune system attacks and kills the beta cells that produce insulin in the pancreas. However, the process of destroying all beta cells takes longer in people with LADA than it does in people with type 1 diabetes.
As you lose the ability to make insulin, your body is unable to control your blood sugar levels. You may not need treatment for many months or years after diagnosis like those with type 1 diabetes.
LADA usually begins after you turn 30, and doctors sometimes misdiagnose it as type 2 diabetes.
In fact, up to 15% of people who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes actually have LADA. Being misdiagnosed puts people at risk for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and other long-term complications.
Furthermore, if the person does not know they have autoimmune diabetes, they will not be screened for other autoimmune diseases, such as thyroid or celiac disease, which are more common in people with LADA than those with type 2 diabetes.
LADA symptoms are similar to those of type 1 or 2 diabetes. Usually if you don’t get better within a few months of taking oral diabetes medications, your doctor might suspect LADA.
LADA is diagnosed with a blood test. Because LADA is an autoimmune disease, individuals with LADA usually test positive for at least one islet autoantibody (a protein produced by the immune system). Tests can be performed on your blood to check for autoantibodies to GAD, IA-2/ICA512, insulin, and ZnT8. These tests vary in cost depending on your insurance coverage.
As soon as oral treatments, exercise, and diet plans fail to control your blood sugar, speak with your healthcare provider about insulin therapy.
Sources: DiaTribe and EnM (Endocrinology and Metabolism)
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetic
