Tag: Diabetes

  • #dsma Chat n Reply – W23

    >Diabetes and Relationships Q1.Has diabetes affected your daily relationships/friendships? How has your spouse/friends coped w/ you having diabetes? In general its not effected things to much because N knew about me being diabetic when we started dating. Though its not always been an easy deal with being active and working, I’ve had a few close…

  • #dsma Chat n Reply – W22

    >Diabetes and Humor Q1. Do you use humor to cope with diabetes? How? Why? No I don’t use humor to cope with being diabetic, I don’t see the reason to do so its part of my life and in general I feel there are better coping skills that can be used. But hay if it…

  • #dsma Chat n Reply – W21

    >United Healthcare-NovoLog and Diabetes Clinical Trials UHC and NovoLog Q1. UHC raised the cost of NovoLog 250% by lowering the price of Humalog. What are your thoughts? K to me UHC means Universal Health Care, so I have no idea what it means down in the US. Thus answering this question I really can’t do…

  • #dsma Chat n Reply – W18

    TOPIC: Managing Diabetes during Activities Q1) How has diabetes affected the activities you do? Have picked up new interests, or stopped pursuing others? Being diabetic hasn’t changed what activities I do but then again I’ve never not know it as part of my life so its just normal to me in general. 1.5) Are there…

  • #dsma Chat n Reply – W17

    TOPIC: The cost of Diabetes Q1. Diabetes is an expensive disease (with insurance or without insurance) how do you find ways to save money? My folks when possible use their senior discount that they get the chance to do so – it helps with the cost of supplies but does nothing for the cost of…

  • #dsma Chat n Reply – W16

    Pharmacy and Social Media-Diabetes Awareness month Q1.Do patients think pharma companies should be involved with social media? It doesn’t hurt for them to at least have a connection and offering free stuff doesn’t hurt either. Q2. Can both “sides” learn a little something from each other? Pt’s learn from pharm com and them learning from…