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Monthly Archives


General

  • BeingDiabetic on indefinite hiatus.
  • Aaron: Ice Age
  • Thursday Poll: Does injection site make a difference?
  • Get it while it’s hot.
  • Thursday poll: how do you treat your diabetes?
  • Thursday poll: diabetes and driving.
  • Thursday poll: autoimmune conditions.
  • Thursday poll: how forgetful are you?
  • Aaron: It’s Dad’s fault.
  • Thursday poll: Have you ever used a Glucagon kit?
  • Three upcoming events for your diary.
  • Thursday poll: have you ever made up BG results?
  • Thursday Poll: Your biggest ever dose?
  • The elephant in the room.
  • BeingDiabetic on Spring hiatus.
More General

CGMS

  • Thursday poll: CGMS
  • An end to finger pricking?
  • Aaron: CGMS, here I come.
  • Awful for all concerned.
  • Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems.
  • Interesting research re insulin pumps, multiple injections, CGMS.
  • A new artificial pancreas in the making.
  • Aren’t people lovely part II: cakes and plastic cows.
  • dia-Driver
More CGMS

Community

  • A Christmas farewell.
  • Aaron: Giving the nod
  • Another great piece of D art.
  • A very cool D shot from one of our own.
  • 4, 200 km for diabetes!
  • What do you do with your sharps?
  • Aaron: My favourite diabetic resources.
  • Guest blog: a citizen of the world.
  • A tricky dilemma!
  • Way to go TV3!!
  • Diabetes in pictures.
  • Final Auckland BeingDiabetic dinner in 2010.
  • Today is World Diabetes Day.
  • Looking out for the community.
  • Welcome new readers!
More Community

Complications

  • Aaron: My endo made my day.
  • Aaron: Plodding along
  • Aaron: How much info is too much?
  • Is Benfotiamine Effective for Treating Diabetic Complications?
  • Sorry, say that again?
  • From colostomy bags to amputations.
  • Well, that’s cheery.
More Complications

Conferences

  • Good sorts, and great chats.
  • Welcome new readers!
  • Rotorua, I’m a ‘comin.
  • Mish mash.
  • Diabetes New Zealand conference 2010 – Destination Unity.
  • Wellington, here I come.
  • Reminders…
  • NZ diabetes conferences this year.
  • Diabetes Youth Conference report 8: Doug Burns
  • Diabetes Youth Conference report 7: Sean Busby.
  • Diabetes Youth Conference report 6: Dr Carol Atmore.
  • Diabetes Youth Conference report 5: Dr Craig Jefferies.
  • Diabetes Youth Conference report 4: Elissa Renouf.
  • Diabetes Youth Conference report 3: Dr Jinny Willis.
  • Diabetes Youth Conference report 2: Professor Bob Elliott.
More Conferences

Exercise

  • 4, 200 km for diabetes!
  • Aaron: Beer, bear and bare.
  • Aaron: It’s Dad’s fault.
  • Watch a video, help a needy T1 child. Do it!!
  • Aaron: Tramping the Laurentians – basal rate success!
  • Not the Spring break I had in mind.
  • Inspiration.
  • Strap on your sneakers, Aucklanders!
  • Row yourself a free gym membership (and support Diabetes Youth)
  • Aaron: Butter, the diabetic’s sugar substitute.
  • Aaron: The day from hell!
  • Oxfam Trailwalker.
  • Mmmmmmmentos.
  • Guest blog: The T1 tyre
  • I’ll just leave it a leeeedle bit longer…
More Exercise

Food

  • Weight control with T1.
  • Eating low GI.
  • Aaron: It’s Dad’s fault.
  • Aaron: 20th Birthday
  • Aaron: The trick to trick-or-treating
  • Giapo the mad scientist.
  • Reminder: Auckland low carb sorbet tomorrow!
  • The perils of baking.
  • Correction re sorbet fest
  • Did someone say low carb sorbet? Yuuuuum!
  • Aaron: Diabetes and Montréal, Canada.
  • Blood sugar levellers.
  • Type 1 and coeliac.
  • Forbidden foods.
  • Carb count question, plus good news!
More Food

Hypos & Hypers

  • Aaron: The statistics
  • Aaron: Beer, bear and bare.
  • Diabetes on a dartboard.
  • Aaron: #bgnow
  • Aaron: The trick to trick-or-treating
  • The perils of baking.
  • Aaron: Tramping the Laurentians – basal rate success!
  • Thursday poll: do your sugars change with your menstrual cycle?
  • Aaron: Diabetes and Montréal, Canada.
  • Come along summer!!
  • Not the Spring break I had in mind.
  • Aaron: The road less travelled.
  • Gotta love those random highs.
  • An end to finger pricking?
  • Aaron: Speechless.
More Hypos & Hypers

Insulin Pumps

  • She gon’ blow this joint up!
  • Aaron: Beer, bear and bare.
  • Summertime.
  • Aaron: Tramping the Laurentians – basal rate success!
  • Thursday Poll: How often do you test your ISF/Basal rates?
  • Diabetes with one arm.
  • Not the Spring break I had in mind.
  • Insulin addict 4 life.
  • Aaron: The road less travelled.
  • Diabetes radio, and help a parent day.
  • Gotta love those random highs.
  • Insulin pumps + BG meters in NZ – a list.
  • Pharmac takes over hospital meds.
  • Over 18? Take a number, honey.
  • Forbidden foods.
More Insulin Pumps

Pregnancy

  • Support group for T1 pregnancy.
  • New BeingDiabetic article added.
  • Guest blog: and soon there’ll be three.
  • Any T1s out there in their first or second trimester?
  • Next T1 dinner.
  • HbA1c time.
  • The mama diaries continued.
  • Return of the night spikes.
  • Are you TRYING to wind me up?!!
  • Back on track.
  • Pregnancy with Type 1 diabetes – the summary.
  • The Mama diaries.
  • Gratuitous.
  • Is your baby diabetic?
  • My type 1 diabetes pregnancy: 36 weeks to birth in 48 hours.
More Pregnancy

Science & Research

  • LCT’s DIABECELL® Registered for Sale and Use in Russia
  • Aaron: It’s Dad’s fault.
  • Thursday Poll: Are we behind the eight ball?
  • Aaron: The Finesse ‘Patch Pen’. Insulin Pump meets pen?
  • Aaron: The first insulin
  • Aaron: Avandia recalled in the UK and EU
  • 5 reasons T1 is on the rise…
  • Type 1 and coeliac.
  • An end to finger pricking?
  • Aaron: How do they even do it?
  • Aaron: Flu vaccine, a storm in a teacup?
  • Helping with research: T1 parents.
  • Insulin in a pill?
  • Pig cells help hypo unawareness.
  • Interesting research re insulin pumps, multiple injections, CGMS.
More Science & Research

Slice of Life

  • Aaron: Giving the nod
  • Aaron: The statistics
  • Aaron: Beer, bear and bare.
  • Diabetes on a dartboard.
  • Aaron: Travel, great. What about emigrating?
  • Aaron: 20th Birthday
  • Aaron: #bgnow
  • Aaron: The trick to trick-or-treating
  • Stickler for the rules.
  • Summertime.
  • The perils of baking.
  • Just because I have diabetes…
  • Come along summer!!
  • Insulin addict 4 life.
  • Gotta love those random highs.
More Slice of Life

Technology & Equipment

  • Aaron: My favourite diabetic resources.
  • Thursday Poll: Are we behind the eight ball?
  • Aaron: #bgnow
  • Aaron: The Finesse ‘Patch Pen’. Insulin Pump meets pen?
  • Aaron: The first insulin
  • I love a new invention!
  • New technology – insulin delivery patch.
  • Aaron: America has some benefits
  • Aaron: The road less travelled.
  • An end to finger pricking?
  • Aaron: How do they even do it?
  • Aaron: Dud insulin.
  • Aaron: CGMS, here I come.
  • T1 kids get a video game just for them!
  • Aaron: Cool, but very creepy.
More Technology & Equipment

Travel

  • Aaron: Beer, bear and bare.
  • Aaron: Travel, great. What about emigrating?
  • Aaron: 20th Birthday
  • Aaron: Diabetes and Montréal, Canada.
  • Aaron: Travel Insurance Policy Comparison
  • Aaron: The road less travelled.
  • Good luck Aaron!
  • Aaron: The end is nigh
  • Aaron: CGMS, here I come.
  • Aaron: Exciting news!
  • Aaron: The insulin black market
  • The volcano that no-one can pronounce.
  • Go on, treat yourself.
  • Melbourne, sweet Melbourne.
  • Don’t try this at home.
More Travel

Work

  • Aaron: Who wants to be a…?
  • It’s back to work I go.
  • Work discrimination – it’s not OK.
  • Havin’ a mare.
  • Guest blog: New kids on the block
  • Guest Blog: New week, new start.
  • Meeting melt-down.
  • Soooo…. THAT happened.
More Work

Kids & Teens

  • A tricky dilemma!
  • Aaron: #bgnow
  • Aaron: The trick to trick-or-treating
  • Babysitting club for T1 kids.
  • Welcome new readers!
  • Diabetes radio, and help a parent day.
  • Do your kids understand your diabetes?
  • John McLaren Youth Award – $1000 up for grabs.
  • Aaron: Trypanophobic?
  • Can you help this T1 parent?
  • Man bags and HbA1cs.
  • New article posted on BeingDiabetic.
  • Aaron: Medic alert much?
  • Type 1 is just part of this little girl’s story.
  • Mish mash.
More Kids & Teens

Funding

  • Diabetes radio, and help a parent day.
  • Pharmac takes over hospital meds.
  • Desert dingo racing.
  • Over 18? Take a number, honey.
  • John McLaren Youth Award – $1000 up for grabs.
  • Yay!! Jenna got her wig.
  • We are beholden.
  • Cutting back diabetes services? Really?!
  • Mish mash.
  • Zilch.
  • Diabetes New Zealand conference 2010 – Destination Unity.
  • More on Ruth Hill’s funding application to the MoH.
  • Fighting the good fight.
  • Reminders…
  • Well done, Ruth Hill!
More Funding

Medical Services

  • A bit of a worry.
  • Thursday Poll: Are we behind the eight ball?
  • Stickler for the rules.
  • Support group for T1 pregnancy.
  • Diabetes radio, and help a parent day.
  • Pharmac takes over hospital meds.
  • Now Diabetes Southland stands to lose?
  • Man bags and HbA1cs.
  • Aaron: My endo made my day.
  • Aaron: CGMS, here I come.
  • Cutting back diabetes services? Really?!
  • Aaron: Rough weekend!
  • Aaron: How much info is too much?
  • Are you TRYING to wind me up?!!
  • The ‘new’ HbA1c.
More Medical Services

Monitoring

  • Aaron: The statistics
  • What do you do with your sharps?
  • Staying motivated.
  • Thursday Poll: Are we behind the eight ball?
  • Watch a video, help a needy T1 child. Do it!!
  • Aaron: #bgnow
  • I love a new invention!
  • Thursday poll: do your sugars change with your menstrual cycle?
  • Thursday Poll: How often do you test your ISF/Basal rates?
  • Thursday poll: do you record your blood sugars?
  • Gotta love those random highs.
  • An end to finger pricking?
  • Insulin pumps + BG meters in NZ – a list.
  • Forbidden foods.
  • Thursday poll: how often do you change lancets?
More Monitoring
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