Category: My Health

  • Diabetes Awarness Month

    Well its looks like its Diabetes month again, and in the local news is a series of articles which are interesting reading I have found. You can read the articles which the Star is publishing on Diabetes here if you’d like, you might have to sign up for a free account to read them all,…

  • Canada’s Only Mainstream DIABETES RADIO SHOW

    Canada’s Only Mainstream DIABETES RADIO SHOW Launches Sunday! EDMONTON, Sept. 9 /CNW/ – DIABETES COMPASS Radio is launching a weekly 30 minute, radio and internet based diabetes health talk show, Sunday, September 11th at 9:00 pm Mountain Time, on AM 930 CJCA Radio and via live-streaming audio at www.cjca.ca. Diabetes is a silent epidemic affecting…

  • 8 ways to reduce the risk of diabetes complications

    A high blood glucose level over a long period of time (due to poor control or undiagnosed diabetes) may lead to tissue damage in the body. Tissues most at risk are blood vessels and nerves, which leads to problems with the heart, eyes, kidneys and feet. For this reason, heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and…

  • One Step Forward for Diabetes?

    Well here is one Diabetic who is hoping that the following article in the Star comes into being before she runs out of finger to prick. I was reading through the Star today when I came across an article on Diabetes and it was related to the Glucose machines which we use to test our…

  • good news from the doctor

    Well I had my next OB/GYN appointment and well I got the test results back and well they where good. My hormonal levels are back to what is considered to be normal for a female of my age group, and this is all thanks to the Depo that i’ve been on since July, the only…

  • PCOS update and more

    Well its been a while since I posted anything about my health and its relation to PCOS, so here goes nothing. Its been 11 months since I was first told I had PCOS, though I was told that I’d likely had it since I was 9 or rather that would have been when things starting…