
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
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
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
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
Every member of this community is here because they or someone they know is battling diabetes.
Diabetes is a life-long condition that takes work for us to manage. What may work for us one day might not work the next. So many factors contribute to our numbers fluctuating. There’s always a chance that the condition will progress even if you do everything you can.
However, we still have three options for how to approach the way we handle this:
– Giving up and don’t do anything about this condition
– Giving in and doing the least we can to treat this condition
OR
– Giving our best and not only control our condition, but do our best to learn about diabetes and to try and discover ways to stop its progression by doing our best. Additionally, even when treatment fails, you don’t give up or give in.
This week’s Motivational Monday’s Message:
Don’t give up.
Don’t give in.
⭐️Give it all you’ve got⭐️
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetic
Dehydration can be very dangerous for people living with diabetes
The risk of dehydration increases for individuals with diabetes since high blood glucose levels decrease hydration in the body.
Drinking water helps keep your hydration and blood sugar levels in check. Besides fighting dehydration, it can also help remove excess glucose.
People with diabetes should drink plenty of fluids – 1.6 liters (L) or 6.5 cups a day for women; and 2 L or 8.5 glasses of water per day for men.
In addition to water, there are a number of other drinks that are also effective for preventing dehydration and increasing fluid intake. Examples include caffeine-free herbal teas, sugar-free sparkling water, almond milk, and sugar-free coffee.
Drinking sodas, energy drinks, fruit juices, and sweetened drinks is not recommended since they contain a lot of sugar and will increase your blood sugar levels.
What does your water/liquid intake look like?
A. 8 or more cups
B. 6-7 cups
C. 5-4 cups
D. 3 or less
What is your drink of choice?
Share your answers below in the comments!
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetic
Yesterday, we’ve discussed diabetes distress and diabetes burnout. To recap:
Diabetes distress occurs when someone feels overwhelmed by the daily demands of managing diabetes.
Diabetes burnout occurs when a person becomes tired of managing their condition, and then ignores it for a while, or even permanently.
If diabetes distress and burnout are not taken care of, both could lead to depression.
There are ways to prevent diabetes distress and burnout before they cause serious long-term complications or lead to clinical depression.
When you address the source of your distress and burnout, you will be able to regain control of your diabetes management with the help and resources you need.
Please don’t wait to get help, you don’t have to suffer diabetes stress or burnout any longer.
Until Next Time,
The Genetic Diabetic