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- I thought I'd make my mornings easier by getting the testing supplies set up ahead of time - my arthritis, expecially in the am, makes fumbling with the little strips for the tester a real pain, literally, and the dogs are always frantic to go out...
- I have been on methotrexate for about two years, injecting weekly. For the past six months, I have been having increasingly more severe topical reactions at the injection site. First it was just a red spot for a few days. Then it lasted...
- I need to renew my driver'slicense soon, and it indicated that I'm an organ donor - but that was before I was diagnosed and started the current regimen of methotrexate and Stelara, and did a year of Humira before that. Does anyone know if that...
- I signed up for an online stretching course, which sends you a new 'class' every day for ten days via email. It fit my budget, and the concept fit well with my overall crankiness about organized fitness activities. I mean, nothing makes me gag...
- Type 2 runs in my family. But i'm also on a couple of meds, some of which have some internet-y links to type 2. You know what I mean, the kind of link that a non-medically-trained person like me can find by googling things, but of course is not...
- Just diagnosed but familiar with type 2 as it's been in the family for generations. I have one quick question: what's the lookback time after a high than normal morning reading? Since going on Metformin, I've seen slowly decreasing morning...
- I was officially diagnosed this morning as a Type II diabetic. I suspected this was coming. My routine bloodwork for the RA has shown a steady increase in the blood sugar number over the last few years, and the last test bumped over the limit. ...
- It's been a few weeks since I posted that I wasn't terribly impressed with the CBD oil, for the price. In the meantime, i've experienced my first true, genuine flare (happily, right before an appointment so I could discuss it with my rh) and let...
- I've been reading about different cultures' approaches to everyday life - maybe, like me, you saw the FB article that was floating around last year on the subject. So I tried to find more information about tham (I especially was intrigued by the...
- I've been using it for about four weeks - I did a two week trial of just using it topically, then switched to two weeks orally, with my rh's blessing for dealing with pain. And by 'blessing', essentially it was a shrug and "it's your money, I...
- For some of us, holiday season is stressful and triggers overeating and addictive food behaviors. For others, maybe it's the opposite. When you look ahead at the next six weeks, what are you thinking? Are you afraid of bingeing, or is it...
- I'm reading her book about her shame research right now, and it's really cementing lessons I've learned in the last 14 months. I'd read it sooner.
- Tell us one thing you're going to do today to make this better than yesterday.I'm feeling susceptible to fast-food temptation today, so I'm going to take a longer alternate route when I deliver vegetables this afternoon. I'm telling myself that...
- It's evening here in the eastern US and I'm thinking about one single small change I can make starting tomorrow. Because hey, if I could make one tiny change every day, or even five days a week, I'd have this mess of a life tidied up in no time,...
- Are your food problems more evident at one time of the day? Apparently my brain thinks that if it's dark outside, calories etc don't count. I struggle so much with late night snacking that I've actually altered my routine so that I'm going to...