February 12, 2009 – 8:24 pm
Here are a few other tests (by far not all of them) that are important in either the diagnosis of diabetes, or if you have diabetes they are good to have to keep tabs on things.
Random glucose test – This is usually a fingerprick, or done while draining your arm/body of blood for other tests. [...]
February 11, 2009 – 8:49 pm
Also known as the HbA1c, hemoglobin A1c, or Glycosylated (or glycated) hemoglobin test. This is a blood test that measures the average blood glucose levels over the past 2-3 months. Glucose can bind to the hemoglobin which is found in the red blood cells. This causes some sort of modification of the molecule in the [...]
February 10, 2009 – 7:46 pm
I was about to launch off in a review about an article I read online at the American Diabetes Association regarding two diagnostic tests for diabetes. But then I realized that it may be more important to give you a bit of a description of the tests before I go spouting off my opinion of [...]
February 6, 2009 – 6:38 pm
Having been to the doctor’s about a billion times in the past few months I have learned a few new things about diabetes that I want to share. I don’t know where I read it, somewhere said that folks with CFRD do not suffer the same complications as “regular” diabetics. This is just bullpuckey! I [...]
February 5, 2009 – 6:32 pm
That is how my life has seemed to be over the past few months… ok, maybe past few years. After my last oh so awesome post, not even a day later, I got some bad health juju that kicked me on my arse which is why I have been on the ‘downlow’ (or what ever [...]
January 6, 2009 – 6:00 pm
Over the last week my tonsils were giving me heck. So I stopped by my CF clinic yesterday to get some good ol’ Levoquin (antibiotic). As tradition goes, as with any clinic visit, I did the typical blow into the machine and it spits out a number thing. To my surprise it seemed really easy. [...]
January 1, 2009 – 11:14 am
Over the past, oh year and a half or so, I have noticed a severe decrese in my mental ability to remember things. Mostly affecting my short term memory, repeating things, asking the same questions over and over, not able to remember what tasks I am doing, or have completed… the list goes on. I [...]
December 29, 2008 – 6:21 pm
As usual at this time of year I tend to get a bit overly emotional. To blame, at least partially, is the lack of sunshine in my life both literally and figuratively. As the end of the year closes it is hard not to reflect back on the passing time. This year has definitely been [...]
December 12, 2008 – 6:38 pm
So if you haven’t figured it out already, Cystic Fibrosis is not a pretty disease. If it is an icky bodily function, CF makes it worse. I was recently asked by a CF friend about CF gas. We cystics have it, a lot of it, and it surely does not smell like roses. On my [...]
December 5, 2008 – 12:55 pm
I want to send a warm welcome to each and everyone who has recently found my site. For those who have found me from my article in Diabetes Forecast, you may not be familiar with my unique type of diabetes and I want to point you to the top of the page where you can [...]
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