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So, How Are You Going To Keep The WDD Momentum Going?

So, How Are You Going To Keep The WDD Momentum Going?
World Diabetes Day is this Sunday, November 14th - And like you, I'm all for it!

Not sure what your doing yet? No worries, just head on over to DiabetesMine for a complete list of World Diabetes Day Happenings in your city/state.

Personally, I want to keep the momentum of WDD going - not only for the rest of November, which is National Diabetes Month, but for the rest of the year!

It's a daunting task when you stop to think about it - but it's totally doable.

So my question to you is: How are you going to continue spreading the diabetes gospel, taking names & kicking ass for the rest of November and beyond?

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A stupid/rude question regarding my insulin pump, and my fantastic response

A stupid/rude question regarding my insulin pump, and my fantastic response
So, I'm out and about on Saturday with friends being chatted up by a guy who thinks I'm pretty fab, when the subject of my insulin pump comes up. "What's that", he asked, pointing to my belt clip, "a new cell phone or blackberry" he asked, all interested and sweet like. I decided to tell him the truth and said, "it's a nifty, super delicious insulin pump." He got this really concerned look on his face and asked in a serious tone, "can u have kids?" I told him I'd let him know the answer to that and other sex related questions ( including turn-ons and favorite positions) if he could tell me at that very moment what his sperm count was. I was willing let him take his beer glass in the bathroom so he could get an accurate number, I even wrangled a few volunteers to watch the bathroom door for him. Turns out, & I quote here, " I don't really know of the top of my head." "Exactly," I stated as I sashayed away and let him pay for my drink. No morons need apply - regardless of their sperm count.
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Diabetes Hodgepodge-All Sorts of Interesting Stuff & Familiar Faces~

Diabetes Hodgepodge-All Sorts of Interesting Stuff & Familiar Faces~

I’m very behind in this thing called life, especially with work and Dblogs. My life (and yours) can be described as diabetes 24 X 7.

Then add Diabetesaliciousness, which has become a 40+ hour a week extracurricular activity that includes catching up on any and all things diabetes related.

Bottom line, I need a job where I can combine my passion for Diabetes, Advocacy, Performing & Production because the one currently have is not a great fit and gets in the way of my passion.

Anyway, sorry to go off on a tangent- it's just been really getting to me as of late! Like I said, I’m behind in the land of diabetes blogs, but I have managed to read a few Dblogs and found some interesting stuff!

Disclaimer: I’m sure I’ve missed lots of other mind-boggling diabetes blog posts so please don’t take it personally. Like I mentioned, I’m behind on my dblog reading. If you do take it personally, I'll feel bad, because I’m a people pleaser. But since I’m trying to get over pleasing everyone- which is an impossible, energy zapping task! You’re going to need to get over it to.

Yesterday was Veterans Day, and George a.ka., ninjabetic over at the B.A.D Blog, wrote a very compelling piece about being a Soldier in the Army of Diabetes. George is “finding a way to be a soldier of a different kind. Serving the world instead of my country. Fighting for freedom from a binding disease. Battling the war against Diabetes." Read about his calling HERE.

Lora- over at The Diabetes &Stuff has come up with some fantastical and whimsical uses for test strip containers. Who’d a thunk that they could be used as take out salad dressing containers? What do you use your old test strip containers for?

Over at Stickysweetmom, Cherise writes a fantastic guest post called: “It is What It is” and her words well tug at your heart!

Have you checked out Sweet And Sexy? It’s a new Diabetes Blog that made its debut on D-Blog Day. It’s all about love, sex, and relationships (including current and lack there of) in life with the Big D.

I think it’s a great concept for a blog and lets face it, as PWDs we have issues, be it dating, relationships with significant others, etc. This seems like a great place in which to share, learn and discuss!

Over at Diabetes Care, there is an excellent (and short) video about how folks sans diabetes who don’t seem to know that there is indeed an International diabetes symbol, let alone what it looks like. CHECK IT OUT!

Speaking of the international symbol for diabetes, tomorrow is World Diabetes Day Over at World Diabetes Day.org, is a list of reminders about this years campaign theme and message, which is: Understanding Diabetes & Taking Control.

Tomorrow you can do something big, like attending an event, or something small as testing your blood sugar, along with thousands of others. Tomorrow is the Big Blue Test and you need to be a part of it.

I was yesterday's winner of the American Diabetes Associations #StopDiabetes slogan.

Here's the retweet: @AmDiabetesAssn Yesterday’s RT Winner! @diabetesalic:#StopDiabetes because it would make every person with#diabetes mom really happy- including my own!


And finally, the Insulin Whores (see yesterdays post) are considering some #GLEE covers and Scott Strumello over at Scott's Web Log writes all about it - and gives Ninjabetic and I a shout out as well! He’s come up with a most excellent idea for a song cover. Read about it and suggest some more songs to add to our repertoire HERE.

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Tamsulosin: prostate drug found to cause Hypotension

Tamsulosin: prostate drug found to cause Hypotension
Tamsulosin (brand names Flomax, Jalyn, Tamsin) is a conventional medical drug used in men for treating an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia). The drug was first marketed in about 1996, and the FDA, the USA drug regulator, approved a 'generic' version as recently as 2010.

But now doctors in the UK have been told by their trade magazine, Pulse, that they should warn their patients that Tamsulosin can cause severe Hypotension.

Well, it only took the Conventional Medical Establishment 17 years to reach that conclusion!

What this means is that doctors have been prescribing a drug with serious adverse reactions to patients, and patients have been taking them, without any knowledge that it could be harmful to health!

Indeed, this conclusion is confirmed if you look at current website descriptions Hypotension is not given as a 'side-effect', for example, Medline Express, or Drugs.Com. 

The new findings were published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) following research in the USA. The Pulse article quotes Dr Jonathan Rees, a GPSI in urology, as saying that the study:

"challenges our assumptions about the low risk of postural hypotension with newer 'uroselective' alpha blockers".

In other words, hitherto the drug has been assumed to be 'relatively safe'! As I commented on the Pulse article:

"It is good to see that this evidence of 'severe side-effects' is at last known - at least 17 years after it began to be prescribed. I wonder if medical science, and drug regulatory agencies might begin finding out such serious adverse reaction BEFORE given them to patients in future?

The history of BigPharma drugs suggests that this is quite impossible. Time and time again patients are subjected to pharmaceutical drugs first, being told that they are 'safe', only to be told many years later of severe adverse reactions (which are not just 'reactions', but actual chronic diseases, or DIEs). What this means is that if anyone is taking a conventional drug, assuming that it is safe, is putting themselves at risk of serious harm.

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