Nyxks Musings

Tag: Diabetes

  • #dsma Chat n Reply – Week 2

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    Questions: Do you consider diabetes an illness? An Illness doesn’t last for long, it has a cure and thus far D doesn’t have a cure so no I do not consider it to be an illness. As a PWD, do you consider yourself ill/sick?No I do not consider myself Ill much less sick by having…

  • #dsma chat Qs n my Responses – Week 1

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    #dsma stands for Diabetes Social Media Advocacy, it is a twitter based deal which every Wednesday at 9PM est we get into a twitter chat room and talk about various topics related to diabetes. The following are the topic questions that where covered for the very first group meeting. Questions How do you feel about…

  • Stop PCOS Ignorance

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    PCOS stands for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and many women deal with it, on a day to day basis. PCOS can effect one’s Menstrual cycle, Ability to have children, Hormones, Heart, Blood vessels and Appearance, in short it can effect every aspect of a woman’s life. It is estimated that over 5 million women in the…

  • New alterations found in young adults with type 2 diabetes

    New alterations found in young adults with type 2 diabetes

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    ScienceDaily (2010-03-11) — Diet and aerobic exercise are highly effective for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but not for obese subjects that have developed the disease when very young. A new study demonstrates that obese subjects between 18 and 25 years of age carry mitochondrial proteins and genes that work abnormally and that these…

  • One Pound Lighter

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    Well its official I am down a single pound from last month. I know SP says i should louse 4 pounds a month at what I’ve put out as my goals and the range it gave me to eat within, and that what I’ve been eating within should have seen a lot more of a…

  • Lowest Ever Evening BG reading

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    Well its been several weeks since I seriously started watching what I was doing and getting myself into the habit of testing and injecting multi-times during the day. Well its starting to pay off it does feel, for the first time since I started testing back in 2003 I have had a low evening blood…