Obat Diabetes

TAKE NOTE FDA - This one's for you!

Like all of us, I pay a hell of a lot of money for test strips (even with insurance) and I rely on them every single day to stay healthy. I test my numbers between 10 and 15 times a day and I pay hard earned money for those strips - not to mention the fact that I literally and figuratively pay with my blood!

If I bought an antibiotic that might be 10% to 20% of the mark, that would be unacceptable, so why is such a big range “OK” when it comes to my meter?

I consider blood sugar testing to be my bodies own personal GPS system – I don’t read maps very well and when someone asks me what direction North is, I say "Canada" and point towards the sky, so the whole GPS thing has made my life easier on many levels

My blood sugar meter and strips are the navigational tools that help me to confirm what where my body is, and what direction it needs to go in.

Sometimes I need to make a sharp turn north towards Canada (when the numbers are dipping fast) and treat a low.

Other times I need to swerve and head south ( here's a visual, I'm currently pointing to the floor and thinking of Florida) when my numbers are going through the roof. I do a correction bolus so I don’t head for the DKA Hills.

The route I love (and prefer) is the road where I’m right on course and all is right in my world.

So here’s the deal FDA- WE,(as in every single person with diabetes) NEED and DEMAND that meters and test strips are accurate. Our health, our livelihoods, and futures depend on it. I It’s hard enough navigating through life with diabetes on a daily basis, but because of these inaccuracies, many of us have to test and test again because the numbers on are meters are somewhere between 10% and 20% off the mark in either direction.

Here’s a crazy thought: IF you pay for something, shouldn’t it work properly?

I don’t know (and I could be little nuts,) maybe I should start paying 10 to 20% less on my yearly taxes? Yes, I pay my accountant boku bucks to figure all that out, but heck, he might be 10% to 20% off in either direction!

JDRF's Government Day reinforced my feelings on stopping the spread of diabetes myths & perpetuating diabetes realities. More on the event to follow. For now, I hope this post will make you think~

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Here’s what I know: We must speak up & right diabetes wrongs when we see them.

We have to open our mouths and speak up in order for others to get diabetes right.

Collectively we can make a difference simply by speaking up whenever we see a wrong that needs to be righted, diabetes or not.

As an individual, you can GOOGLE the Producer of the 6:30 news contact info when you hear the reporter perpetuate a diabetes myth - right from home. And then you can pick up the phone and bug the shit out of them (nicely of course) until they realize the error of their ways~ ;)

You can write "A letter to The Editor" be it on-line or off, whenever you see diabetes screw-ups in print.

You can pick up the phone and call your Senate/Congress woman or man and tell them that you vote, and that you vote for politicians who support diabetes causes – And remind them that your voice is a loud one.

If you see a diabetes company doing something you don't like, CONTACT THEM and let them know.

And the same rules apply when you see a company, Org, media outlet, politician, etc doing something right!

People don't know what life with diabetes is like, unless we explain it.

Diabetes is definitely one of life’s mysteries to those that don't have it. What they know they know from television - and most of that is wrong.

Instead of shooting the messenger (which is always my first inclination) we have to educate the masses when it comes to diabetes.

You (as in the person reading this blog) have to do something, because if you don't, you (we) have no right to complain.

So.... what are you going to do?