If you have diabetes and kidney disease, or are at risk, there are some important issues you should discuss with your doctor. Read on to learn more about talking with your healthcare team about diabetes and kidney disease.
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10 tips for effective communication with your doctor
These days, time is at a premium for most people—and face time with your physician is even more so. In managing your diabetes optimally, it’s important to be able to effectively communicate health concerns to your doctor
Myths about kicking the smoking habit
Although smoking is harmful to everyone, people living with diabetes are already at an increased risk of heart disease and stroke, so smoking compounds their risk.
Tips and ideas for entertaining
A diagnosis of diabetes doesn’t mean you and your loved one can’t entertain any more.
Does insulin mean we’ve failed?
When a healthcare practitioner recommends that a patient with diabetes should add insulin to their oral medications or entirely replace oral medications with insulin, the response is often one of dismay. Such patients often feel that the move to insulin means they have in some way failed in their diabetes self-management.
Overcoming barriers to blood glucose monitoring
As someone living closely with diabetes, you have heard the diabetes healthcare team talk about the importance of blood glucose monitoring.
