Do you ever find yourself picking up medication prescriptions on different days? Did you ever wonder if you could arrange for your chronic medications to be picked up all at the same time?
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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.
Medications that raise your blood sugar
Managing diabetes is a daily challenge that involves a careful balance of diet, exercise and medication. For many individuals living with diabetes, medications play a crucial role in controlling your blood sugar.
What are the 5 main factors that affect blood glucose levels?
For people living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, one of the major goals is targeting near-normal blood glucose levels over the long-term. Studies have shown that prolonged elevated blood sugar is the major risk factor for developing complications of diabetes
10 warning signs of prediabetes
Similar to type 2 diabetes, there are usually no symptoms; however, there are warning signs for prediabetes that may mean you are at higher risk. Here are 10 warning signs of prediabetes.
Diabetes and hospital admissions: how to avoid them and how to survive them!
No one likes to be in hospital, but the reality is that people living with diabetes are more likely to have a hospital stay. At any given time on a hospital medical ward, about 25% of the people there have diabetes.
