I am an Insulin dependent Diabetic. When I give my self injections, quite often the injection site would bleed out a portion of the formula. Does this mean I did not get my full dose? Do you know any tricks to keep it from doing this? If it does this should I take another shot?
Thank you somuch for your responses. I will try them.

You probably did not get the full dose, but dont’ give yourself another because you don’t know how much leaked out.

One trick is to put the needle under the skin at an angle to the skin a little ways, rather than just straight in perpendicularly. Then inject before drawing back. The effect will be that you’ve deposited your insulin under the skin a ways, and not directly under your injection site, so it’s less likely to leak out.

Is it increasing or decreasing in the world?
Is it increasing or decreasing in developed countries?

Diabetes mellitus is increasing all over the world,type 2 more as the cause of it is generally idiopathic and more so in the developed countries.one cause for this is thought the lack of nutritional stress in the lives of most people due to the change in lifestyle. the incidence is also higher nowadays as the longetivity is increased and DM is incurable(only palliative medicine is available).
a particular group of factors in the body,proteins and transcription factors(ppr gamma) are thought to be responsible for managing nutritional stress in the organisms. this in,our case has been rendered redundant too fast and has consequentially created havoc in the body as the body is not evolutionarily ready to accept the sudden change of lifestyle. this is considered as one of the major causes for the widespread dying out of the native red indians in US,one of the major causes has been found to be DM.
But in terms of cause the reasosns cannot be narrowed thus.DM is precipitated by many factors one of which maybe as stated above,

You and your dietitian can work that out. Every one is different.
Make sure to have fast acting sugar with you while you bike.

I’ve come to realize I can’t weigh myself weekly if I want to keep any kind of sanity. So I’ll pop on once in a while to check progress but that’s about it. Still keeping on. I need motivation to check my blood sugar more often…..!!

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I’ve come to realize I can’t weigh myself weekly if I want to keep any kind of sanity. So I’ll pop on once in a while to check progress but that’s about it. Still keeping on. I need motivation to check my blood sugar more often…..!!

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Mid-week check in, everything is going fairly well, besides the fact that i GAINED 5 POUNDS, whatever, dude.

I want to continue to make videos but not have them be so rambly, what I mean is, I want each video to have a point, I guess. Something I can figure out, or is there anything any Type 1′s or fellow dieters want to talk about?

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SO. 1st YT Weigh-in!

HW: 250 5/09
CW: 242 7/18/09
GW: 165 NOT SOON ENOUGH :p

I also took a ton of measurements but I’ll just post 3 here for simplicity’s sake, unless you want to know the size of my forearm…

Bust: 45.5
Waist: 44
Hips: 51

I know that weight training will help shave those inches off, so I look forward to starting that, too, without totally succumbing to an overnight hypoglycemic attack :p

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My screensaver went up at the end so my video cut off haha.
This is just a little bit of insight on living with Type 1, based on something that happened to me today.

More to come!

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•Polydipsia
•Obesity
•Glycosuria
•Metabolic acidosis
•Hyperglycaemia

1.is a feature of Type-II rather than type-I diabetes mellitus.
2.is seen when the requirment for insulin is greater than is secretion
3.causes an osmotic diuresis
4.diuresis leads to dehydration which promotes thirst and drinking.
5.can cause respiratory compensation leading to hyperventilation.

1. obesity
2. Hyperglycemia
3. Polydipsia
4. ANother guess
5. a wrong guess

I’ve had type 1 (insulin dependent) Diabetes for almost 10 years and I was wondering if any one had information on alternative therapies. I understand they are doing Islet of Langerhans Transplants in UK, but does anyone have any personal stories or good site to explore the alternatives.

Islet cell transplantation is not alternative medicine.

Alternative medicine is alternative because it has not been proved to work, or it has been proved not to work. The same goes for its safety.

Conventional medicine diagnosed and has treated your diabetes for 10 years, I don’t recommend you turn your back on it and go alternative now.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=400#more-400