How to use math to cure diabetes type 2? November 30, 2016

Say me, who does not know how to cure diabetes type 2? Everyone but diabetics type 2. So simple. Every one take bite of our very sweet pie, and why not? At least one day someone finally would discover the cure for diabetes type 2. Really? Who needs this cure? We are, diabetics type 2. They do need us to participate in studies, to stay in rats cages. So, say me, if this really one day would happen that cure for diabetes type 2 would be developed? I am diabetic type 2. There is no cure for me in close future.

By delivering accurate glucose levels to pancreatic islets in the lab, researchers can test how insulin-producing beta cells get turned off and whether they can be reactivated.

So, as usual, there is no one attention, beta cells are available to secret insulin or there is nothing to reactivate in first place?  But still, if this unpleasant part of diabetes skipped, then all speculations are possible. As I said, they study us. They are proud of their great work. What about me? Am I proud of being an American Rat? Sorry, not my interests.

With Roper's microfluidic device, researchers delivered tiny doses of glucose -- about one microliter or 1/1000th of a raindrop -- to the dormant pancreatic beta cells of mice. When those controlled doses were administered in rhythmic pulses of exactly the right size and frequency, mimicking a healthy body, they triggered inherent oscillators in the islet cells. That caused the cells to vibrate and secrete insulin in a "healthy" fashion.

Sorry, but I am diabetic type 2, am not healthy person. Does this part of really skipped in study?

"There's no one else using this combination of tools," Bertram said. "It's nice to be doing scientific work gaining insights that no one else is gaining because we have the right collaboration with the right tools."

      Really? What is new in this studies? Nothing really. The same as in any other studies it is focused on the assumption that there is high glucose level we do have is the problem. They try to control glucose level delivery to pancreas. What they do not control, how much glucose our body system needs to push blood inside the body, to the every toe we do still have. They do not control how much glucose our lungs need to push air. They have no one idea that this demands must be met. So, if  reduce of  glucose delivery would it be 'healthy living'? Not at all. Regardless we die because of high blood sugar, very high level of glucose in our blood available to be used if insulin added in injection, or there is no food to be converted into glucose, we die, and this is only what really matter. At least for me it is all in this way. I do not want to speculate what is better. I simple try to avoid both, the high blood sugar as well as low blood sugar.
       There is no one way that cure for diabetes type 2 ever would be found. There are countless ways which are wrong. There is only one way which is right. Until this right way would be discovered all wrong ways would bring the same result, our high rate of Death. So far I do not see any step in right direction. Diabetes type 2 presented as it is high blood sugar. It is not. It is defect in Insulin Secretion. The same as any organ in our bodies pancreas can get ill. It must be treated the same way as it is lungs or heart or flu or any other health issue. No one concentrate attention to reduce high temperature of the body when it come to flu. The attention is to kill virus. As soon as virus destroyed the temperature of the body returns to the normal range. But if virus still present it would be finally spread all over the body and finally kill the host, human body.
      It is easy to understand with flu. No one pretend to treat elevated body temperature with life style modifications or starvation diet.  Then why it is so different with pancreas? Our pancreas the same as any other human body organ. It is ill. It must be treated in the way to help to kill the potential damage. No one in medical industry sees the problem in this way. They see us, we are obese, fatty body, and this is where the problem. The result is Diabetes, not diabetics, but high level of sugar in blood, 100% preventable medical condition, number 7 cause of death. I do suggest, start to treat pneumonia with starvation diet and see what result it will bring. Then why it is only we are, diabetics type 2 treated in this way that Starvation diet is best solution for us? Not at all. It is high profit. Also it is benefits of society that older Americans run our faster, and society can safe money on medicare and SSI. 

Crunching the numbers: Researchers use math in search for diabetes cure

Date: November 29, 2016

Source: Florida State University

Summary:

New research by a mathematics professor has successfully reactivated oscillations in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells — one of the first necessary steps to resurrecting the dormant cells and restoring the production of insulin. 

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Day-by-Day. November 29, 2016

Blood sugar is 306 mg/dl.
Very high for fasting. I do not feel it its too high. This is why I said every time, it is not possible to trust own feeling. They are deceiving.
Yesterday it was low blood sugar all day long after noon. I tried to deal with it, took chicken broth one cup after another. I do have it right now. Very nice and handy. I took 240 units of Lantus Solo Star. Day before it was 300 units. In the morning fasting was just 91 mg/dl. Today fasting is 306 mg/dl. After I took just 60 unis at 8:48 am now, two hours later after meal, it is 221 mg/dl.
      Why I do post it in such details? Because of when fake diabetics post that they do control blood sugar with fasting diet, they simple lie. It is not possible.
      What is most important that our Medical Organization try to fool every one that it is possible to reverse diabetes type 2 with life style modifications, Starvation diets, or medicine they suggest. Say me, if this really true then why diabetics type 2 die in so huge numbers?  Do it because of we do not eat right? Millions of us do not live right life styles? If this is really possible? Of cause not. Then why they do it? Because of it is high profit on one side and because of we are not danger for society. No one can get diabetes from me or any other diabetic. So, they collect money, diabetes is number 7 cause of Death in USA. There are a lot of publications and medical education programs to teach us how to eat right and what spoon to take, but number of diabetics grow with every year. It is not only number of diabetics grow, the stage of diabetes, mortality of diabetics also grow.
       Say me, how many times we were able to see how legs or foot of diabetics looks like before they were amputated? It is possible to see but only on special sites, in professional medical books. Never on public. At the same time it is nothing new or unusual to read someone posted: "I come to doctor and he said, they need amputate my leg.  I said, no! " and then this one started diet and now he  or she diabetes type 2-free.
      Before foot or leg or toe would be amputated it is pain, and disability, and not possible to walk at all in first place. All starts with pain, severe pain. If one do not know I will say go to Google and try to find out what 'restless leg syndrome' is? There is no any spot in my body to sit without pain, or lay down. I tossed legs, tried to turn from one side to another, but ... I could not do that. It was almost not possible. I ordered one mattress after another, to add softness to my bed, nothing worked. Pain, sleeplessness. Toes, on both legs, like in fire. Fire come from inside. There is nothing outside, but inside it is hot, so hot like my toe put into fire and it is burn. There are somewhere picture of my legs, but I took those pictures when insulin supply was restored and recovery already started.
       Now  I do not have this pain. I can sleep all night long, from eve to morning. When I need I can easy turn from one side to another. I still have all pounds I did have at that time, even more. So, do not say, it was my pounds why I was in such pain and misery. Not at all. Just remember, then older we get then more possible many of us would have diabetes type 2, one stage of it or another. Almost every one. It is the same as it is with flu, no one safe.

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Great?

Thanksgiving weekend was great. We had family travel to spend the weekend with us. We hosted the meal. We enjoyed leftovers, played board games and took some long walks.

Diabetes-wise? It wasn't great. The Dexcom beeped all weekend, mostly for high blood sugars. There was a 'FALLING' alarm each time we set out for a walk, as though all of the insulin delivered over the previous hours had pooled, waiting for the slightest movement to activate all at once. And there was a mysterious low after the Thanksgiving Day pie:



 

 



The leftovers are mostly gone now and the routine has returned to the usual school day schedule. Blood sugars are coming back into range.

We decided long ago, the first time we vacationed with diabetes, that special occasions warranted a loosening of diabetes perfectionism. This doesn't mean we don't correct highs and treat lows. It doesn't mean that we stop trying to count carbs altogether. It doesn't mean that we don't use the tools and tricks in our arsenal to attempt to keep things on as even a keel as possible. It simply means that we accept the inevitability of wider swings in blood sugars because of the change in routine and eating patterns. It means we take a deep breath and don't freak out over every out of range number. It means that we focus on the diabetes to the extent we need to in order to keep my daughter feeling good. Beyond that, we focus on the fun. Not medical advice, I'm sure, but it's a philosophy that keeps us sane so that we can enjoy the special occasions in life.

Which is why I can say that, despite the incessant beeping, Thanksgiving weekend was great.






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Post Election Funk, Fear, Pulling Myself Up By My BootStraps & Forging Ahead

Because the past few weeks has been hard on our whole nation - but I'm forging ahead with a vengeance. 

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Post election funk is real and it's scary - it makes focusing hard- writing and blogging even harder. 

I’m scared about the future, my health insurance, the cost of being a person living with a chronic illness, and the ever growing division in our country. 

I know we’re not supposed to talk politics in the DOC - but I can’t explain why its been hard for me to be present in the DOC without mentioning our our presidential election. 

After the election many of us took a break from social media, television and the likes there of - including me - and as much as I hated to do it - I needed too. 

My heart and my head hurt and still do. I’m mad at how the election turned out for many reasons -as a woman, as a person with diabetes, living with a pre-existing condition, as an American who has always voted as an Independent and never straight down party lines, who has always done research on what and who I was voting for. 

I'm scared, angry, and frustrated that fake news is accepted as fact. 

I'm scared of the hate I see others express for those who are different  - and I want it to stop instead of it being encouraged. 

I'm angry that opposing parties demonize one another to the point it's now damaged and fractured our country. 

Instead of feeling empowered - the post election vibe made me feel powerless and scared - two words/feelings I despise. 

As a Diabetes Advocate I’ve learned to use my diabetes voice and become empowered in the process - and now I must take those same DA super powers and develop my voice as a citizen of the United States - and I am. I’ve always been one to reach out to my Reps in Congress and the Senate - and I’ve tripled my efforts now - and I strongly encourage you to do the same!

Financially and health wise, 2017 was the year I was going to sign up for the the Affordable Care Act - and I’m not so sure if I should now.

My current health insurance rates up again in March and my deductible is high. 

I’ve read that pre-existing conditions will be covered under in whatever the new administration replaces it with - but quite frankly, I won’t take their word for it. 

Now that the Thanksgiving holiday is behind us - I plan on taking the next week and researching ACA and will keep you posted on my findings. 

Speaking of the ACA, you/we can register our support for the ACA .

Paul Ryan's office is conducting a survey hoping to show a popular mandate to repeal the ACA - but the survey can also be used to register support for the ACA. 

It's automated and quick and here’s what you need to do:

1) Call (202) 225 -0600

2) Wait for awhile (1-2 min) for a recording to start 

3) You will get prompted by the survey
4) Press 2 to participate
5) Press 1 to register your support for the ACA

It only takes a couple minutes and it’s a sure way for our collective voices to be heard!

I’m also mad that the presidential election in the United States had such a negative and powerful impact on the International Diabetes Awareness month - and yet I totally understand it, because I experienced it and talked with others in the DOC who felt the same way. 

Another focus shifter occurred a few weeks ago (the day before election day,) when I scheduled surgery for my right wrist and pointer finger for December 13th. 

My right wrist and finger really hurt to the point of having to ice both daily. 

I’ve met my deductible for 2016 - now’s the time to get it done.

I’ve spent a lot of time (but not nearly enough,) prepping for the time I’ll be off and I wish it was over and done with. 

I spent the past week traveling to be with my family for Thanksgiving. 

For the first time ever, I drove solo and almost 700 miles each way, to spend time with my family - and it worked wonders for my heart and spirit. 

For the first time in what seemed like forever, I laughed until I cried... and I jammed with people who are just as "Kunikal -The_Musical" as I am!  

So as much as I want a “do-over” for the entire month of November - diabetes and politically speaking - I'm working my ass off to pull myself up by my bootstraps and forge ahead with a vengeance - it's really hard and some days are better than others. 

So thanks for your patience and understanding - it means the world to me. 

Speaking of thanks, for as little as $5 you can send a beautiful and straight from the heart thank-you to a loved one/loved ones who makes your life with diabetes easier - and you get to support the Diabetes Hands Foundation in the process! 

Click HERE to learn more.

Also, here's the thank-you that Mr. Mike Lawson sent me - it made my eyes leak in a really great way!  

Speaking of forging ahead, I have a new article up on Mango Health on Chronic Illness Burnout, so please give it a read by clicking, HERE.  

The topic is timely and it’s straight from my heart - and my beautifully busted pancreas~

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Day-by-Day. November 28, 2016

Blood sugar is 91 mg/dl.
      Perfect sugar. Yesterday it was 300 units of insulin. I worried I will have low blood sugar at night or early in the morning. Sugar just perfect. Say me, why? Really, how number on the glucose meter and dose of insulin connected? They do connected, but this connection far away from being simple line. After that say me, if it is really possible to control blood sugar with diet and activity? Or with any combination medicine in one fixed shot? I posted Yesterday, it is a new medicine developed to combine GLP-1, such as Byetta or other of this family I name all together as 'Trash Medicine' and Insulin, long acting insulin such as Lantus Solo Star? Would this medicine really work? Of cause it will, the question is for whom. Would it help diabetics type 2? Not at all. Would it help Medical Organization to collect more money? Yes, it will.
      I try very hard to find the way, how to dose insulin, what is connection between numbers on glucose meter and dose of injected insulin? Still, this connection flee away.
      In present time diabetics' treatment regime concentrated on the level of sugar in blood without attention to dose of insulin injected during the day before, or week before, or so on. I see, this connection in different way. I do not have good computer to use to document my data. It would be better to see how dose of insulin and numbers on glucose meter run day after day in single lines. There are so many studies what to eat and how to hold table spoon. There is no studies how to dose insulin, day after day, one shot after another. They ask us, do I control blood sugar or I am not? So simple. They collect money, and I collect diabetes complications.
       I tried to use another needle to administer insulin. It is short needle, just 5 mm rather then 8 mm. And what? I got pain with every injection I take. Why is this so? Shorter needle do not go so deep into flesh as it is with longer needle. Why with shorter needle injection there is more pain then with longer needle? I do not use these needles anymore. It is not only pain, but there are scars under skin.  I used the same spot to inject insulin with longer needle, and almost never have an issue. With shorter needle, less then month and I have to stop to use this needles. Big surprise for me.
      It works with every issue regarding diabetes treatment regime. I do not take Novolog, type of insulin which bring glucose numbers down soon after shot was taken. It is the type of insulin we must take with meal, bolus how it is named. I took my meal, injected insulin, and what after? Sugar simple drop and I got low blood sugar. I have to eat to resolve the problem. I do. Sugar going up. I inject insulin. Sugar drop, ..... . I stopped this regime. Now I take only Lantus Solo Star. Regardless what dose I need, I inject only Lantus Solo Star. Yesterday it was 300 units. It can be 400 units, and more. The difference only, how many shots to take. I can take as any as it will take, but insulin would be only Lantus Solo Star.

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IDegLira and LixiLan new medicine for diabetics type 2. Whould they work? November 27, 2016

      IDegLira and  LixiLan  are two new medicine to treat diabetics type 2. Would it work? I do not think so. Say me how fixed dose any medicine to treat diabetics high blood sugar numbers can work in first place? To look at this way possible only if there is no one idea what's really diabetes is about. Why our pancreas does not secret insulin? Why insulin which secreted by our own body, our body system does not use properly, as it is presented by medical industry? It is all the time presented that type 1 diabetic's immune system attacks own beta cells, and destroy them. It does not attack type 2 diabetics beta cells, why? Probably there is nothing left to attack? But according to Medical Organization, it is because of we do not live properly, do not practice healthy life style. If I am ill, how can I live healthy?

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two new competing combination products containing fixed doses of glucagonlike-peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and long-acting insulins, from Sanofi and Novo Nordisk respectively, for the treatment of adults with type 2 diabetes.

      This is what new medicine suppose to be. In other words, to the barrel of Trash add some spoon of honey, and get healthy, diabetes - free. Personally I do not eat Trash, nether do I eat honey. I prefer one medicine to be separated form another. How do I know if medicine works? Or does it works properly? Or it does not work at all? It is not possible to find in combination treatment.

     I do take Lantus Solo Star, 300 units daily. It works for me perfectly. Types of GLP-1 receptors are old well known names, which already collected many victims with heart failure. How this medicine works?

• exenatide (Byetta/Bydureon), approved in 2005/2012.
• liraglutide (Victoza, Saxenda), approved 2010.
• lixisenatide (Lyxumia), approved in EU 2013.
• albiglutide (Tanzeum), approved in 2014 by GSK.
• dulaglutide (Trulicity), approved in 2014—manufactured by Eli Lilly.

There is some explanation what is a new medicine about:

Xultophy 100/3.6 can be taken at the same time each day with or without food and will be available in a prefilled pen. It delivers doses from 10 to 50 units with each injection, and each unit of Xultophy 100/3.6 contains 1 unit of insulin degludec and 0.036 mg of liraglutide. The starting dose is 16 units (16-units insulin degludec and 0.58-mg liraglutide), and the maximum dose of 50 units corresponds to 50 units of insulin degludec and 1.8 mg of liraglutide.

Is this possible to get how to administer right dose? Our Medical Care not able to Rx dose of insulin, and now it is combined medicine, insulin and tablet in one pen, prefilled. Today my blood sugar is 225 mg/dl, fasting. Yesterday it was 84 mg/dl, fasting. The same daily dose of insulin. Now say me, what I suppose to do with all that math how many units I have to inject? It is from 10 to 50 units in one shot. Plus 1.8 mg Victoza. Add also the amount of carbs I have to eat, and amount of carbs I do want to eat, and add my severe headache today, and rain outside. Never forget to adjust dose of insulin to the seasoned changes, Winter, Summer, and so on. Because of I did not get flu shot in October because of clinic canceled my appointment, now I do have flu. Do I need to continue? It is easy to put directions on the paper. The question is, how I suppose to use it? I am even not able to practice healthy life style, do not know what spoon to use and how, how to eat, and what do not to eat, as we all the time presented by medical care who educate us in healthy living. 
Do not say diabetics are costly because of our life style and this is why we are ill. It is business, and we are very profitable.

Industry analysts expect Xultophy to generate annual sales of around $1.2 billion in 2021, while Soliqua is forecast to reach $550 million by then, according to consensus estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters. 

Do I need this medicine? Not at all. I will never take it. Would this medicine taken by diabetics type 2 and generate annual expected sales? Of cause it will. It is Medical Organization. One hand develop precisely are very danger medicine. Another hand put this medicine on profitable market. All do have American Pie. We do have bulling, mocking, and so severely abused that even life is not pleasant. What is life? pain and misery. Suicide is number 10 cause of Death in America.
     Now, what medical providers say about new medicine:

This new combination should result in decreased need to use prandial insulin in T2DM. In my experience it is often difficult for both patients and practitioners to titrate to the right dose of prandial  insulin. 

It is doctor who is happy to Ex a new medicine. Does this doctor understand what is medicine about? Of cause he does. It is reimbursement, and he is happy to participate. They all do have samples and they happy to provide Rx for medicine they advertise. Go Big Money, GO!

 Oh No! Not more new drugs for T2DM! Not more drugs with tongue twisting names! I have barely recovered from the onslaught of drugs (about 10) for this condition over the past few years. I have hardly had chance to assess their effects ( because most of them are too expensive for patients, no insurance coverage) so will not be able to prescribe these because they are going to be expensive too and not have coverage.So what is the point!

 to answer your question the government makes over a million dollars per approval of product!!!

 No comment. I did not know about that. But good to know how profitable I am for government. They even can start another war. This is why we do not have cure for diabetes. On the other hand, it is mostly older population just shortened life with Medical Care. Very nice to cut SSI and retirements payments. Good for all.

The patients lose faith, and as doctors, we lose value: we are now employees of hospital systems dependent on diabetic admissions, and they get to set the unattainable bonuses we read about yesterday.

If this is not where we want to work and care for our fellow humans, then we need to learn lifestyle reversal of this common illness and step off the hamster wheel of more meds and more side effects, unhappy patients and coercive employers.

 So nice for you! At least you do know how to live healthy and it is not so difficult for you to changer your lifestyle, to ride in 12 years old Toyota rather then in new model BMW, go to vacation on state camp parks rather then to Hawaii, and so on. See you there!

The cure is already well-known. All you need to do is read the Facebook page of the America Diabetic Association. NOT the official posts, but the comments from the viewers. Many people have successfully reversed diabetes and will explain how they did it.

Only one question, how they were diagnosed with diabetes type 2? By eating ton of carbs, get DT2 diagnose, and after that starting to practice healthy eating? Or they took barrel of soda and said they are fasting? My suggest to you, go to mortality table CDC publish them every year and see how many diabetics lost lives. It is only high blood sugar, 100% preventable death, which put diabetics on spot number 7 cause of death. 100% preventable. Diabetics die from stroke and heart attacks, lung complications and breathing stopped suddenly not only at night, but daytime too. With right medicine we can live. We do not have right medicine. We do have treatment with life style modifications, ultimate modifications of life.

It is a "physician, heal thyself thing. I had to fire the Doctor I liked otherwise because they would not take me off a statin  ...... .

What I am not able to understand why it is so problem with statins? it is only tablets. Why someone must take you off it? Just stop to take medicine which is not good for you, and that's it. I can understand  that when I need medicine and doctor refuse to Rx it, it is the problem and I have to look for another doctor. But to stop any medicine, .... I do not really understand this person what is about. 
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FDA Approvals > Medscape Medical News

IDegLira, LixiLan Go Head-to-head as FDA Okays Both for Diabetes

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Is the Hippocratic Oath Still Relevant? More then ever! November 26, 2016

Tight Blood Sugar Control. November 25, 2016

Blood sugar today in 86 mg/dl. Yesterday it was 180 units of Lantus Solo Star.
    As I said many times, diabetes in not direct connection between insulin injected and level of sugar in blood. This is why it is so difficult to find right dose. Probably the attempt to find right dose of insulin is the same as it was attempt to develop Perepetum Mobile, not sure I spelled it correctly. Still, if it is so difficult to control blood sugar level with insulin injections then say me, if this really possible to control or reverse diabetes type 2 with right life style? Never. It simple do not work in this way. No one diet or work out will control blood sugar level. Never. Why?
      Sugar and meal and insulin are all the source of energy. This energy used by every one our organ. Can we control how energy used by our body? No. Our brain is greatest energy consumer. How much meal we need to take to provide our brain with energy brain will use for healthy living? If there is no sugar in blood, when blood sugar is low, then what happened? Coma. Brain shot down. Brain can use only sugar to be used as source of energy. Heart and lungs can use fat converted into energy, for very short period of time. Brain uses only sugar.
      It is nothing new or something no one do know. If so, then say me, how it is possible to control blood sugar level with Starvation Diet? Diabetic already have problems to convert food into energy. So, if we will cut amount of food would we have more energy to function properly? If I do not have money to buy food, would be it is very beneficial for me if landlord rise my rent?
     Well, it is up to everyone to do what one think is best. I do my best for myself. So, I use another understanding. I do know way too well, it is very bad for me to have high blood sugar level. So, it is indicator of my well being. It is only one way to control my health. I can do it only with insulin injections. My constant goal is to keep blood sugar as closer to normal range as I can. For this reason I increase dose of insulin, only one way which can effect blood sugar rising and put it down. Yes, it is constant fear of low blood sugar. But it is only way I can see.
      This is all in my hands. I can increase or decrease dose of insulin. I can take all dose in one shot or in multiply shots. I can take insulin after meal, or without any connection with meal. It is all I can do. Still, it is not best way. I have to find best way to control blood sugar rather then bring it down. To bring blood sugar down is useless and meaningless. I can do it for short period of time and then it go up without any control, and eventually will kill me. My goal is to keep it under control, as close as I can.
       In many medical publications they present that tight blood sugar control is danger and not effective. Do they know how to reach tight blood sugar control? Not at all. One day, or week or even more days with blood sugar under healthy range level is not prove that blood sugar is under tight control. Then something changes, and sugar rush high, out of any control. Tight control available only when diabetic recovery and Gap between insulin in demand and insulin available in secretion getting smaller, almost vanish. If Gap is wide, tight blood sugar control is not possible. It is all the time swings between high and low blood sugar. Then wider Gap, then higher fly swings.
      There is no one medicine which try to bring down blood sugar numbers provide benefits. Diabetic pancreas is ill, weak, and it needs medicine to be healed, not forced to work harder. Insulin provide needed rest for pancreas, ability to take time and try to heal. Insulin do the job, ill pancreas not able to do in time when it is weak and ill. In contrary, our medical care force ill organ to work harder. Why? Because of insulin is difficult to dose and diabetes is very difficult to control. This is why they created myth that it is our life style why we are, diabetics type 2, ill. They also created myth that with proper diet, or right meal choice we can reverse diabetes type 2. In contrary with this myth, the number of diabetics increased and the death toll ride up.
       Diabetes really should not be Death Sentence. But today diagnose of diabetes close many opportunities for its victims. Most important, diagnose of diabetes type 2 shorten lives, send us to early graves, and make our lives miserable. We are bulled, mocked, abused by society. We presented we had done it for ourselves. We treated with all types of Junk Medicine, and we do not have medicine we need, insulin. When finally we got it, we already in very deep Gap between healthy life and possibility to ultimately lost weight. But still, even we do have limited insulin Rx for us by highly Insulin Resistant Medical Care Providers, we have no one idea how to use it, how to avoid low blood sugar, and how to bring high numbers down.
       Usually our doctors ask us in clinic: "Do you control blood sugar level?" So fanny! Why I would be in your office if I could do it by myself? I cannot. I need medicine, INSULIN,  and education how to use it, how to live with diabetes and how to manage medicine I have to take every day, day after day.

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Blood Sugar as Vital. November 24, 2016

      Very interesting moment. It is presented that something what would be hold in hands, would diagnose diabetes easy, comfortable, and right in the medical office. Really, what is this about? In present time millions of diabetics in America live with high blood sugar level and never diagnosed with diabetes. In no one clinic medical care providers still capable to confirm diabetes diagnose. And what? They pretend that they so care to help us, diabetics type 2, be pain-free, that even diagnose of diabetes would be done without blood test. Just take a breath, and diabetes diagnosed. So simple. Why today millions of diabetic not diagnosed with diabetes and do not have treatment for potentially fatal medical condition when it is left untreated?
     A hand-held 'breathalyzer'  how it suppose to diagnose diabetes? Really it does not matter. The fact is, it would be just particular moment of medical condition. There is no one way to diagnose diabetes how it is progressed or how it will go into progression. So, if right now I injected 100 units of insulin, what to expect how diagnose of diabetes I do have would be confirmed? I would not have so high blood sugar readings. In my breath as I suspect there would not be smell of fruit. So, I do not have diabetes? But my A1c = 7.9%. My C Peptides level is 1.8 ng/dl. My fasting sugar run over 250 mg/dl. So, am I diabetic or not? With 300 units of insulin daily dose, am I diabetic or not?
      They pretend that one day diagnose of diabetes would be easy, right in the office diabetic can be diagnosed with diabetes. Why today diagnose of diabetes still not done ether in medical clinic nether in hospitals, or ER? Any diagnostic based on to compare healthy value with real time value of data. So, regardless it is breath or level of sugar in finger tips, or plasma level of sugar, still the difference between healthy non-diabetic and diabetic would be detected. It is OK to diagnose diabetes with different tools of diagnostic. Still, in present time diabetes still under diagnosed. Even more then that. Diabetes diagnosed as 'types' and Hell do know what is this, types of diabetes?
      Types of diabetes let medical providers to avoid real treatment and replace it with barking therapy. Diabetes type 2, how one can see if treatment doctor Rx works or not? Really, what is this about? In all medical publications and presentations it was told that diabetes type 2 progressive. Now say me, does anyone see how progression of diabetes was detected, or diagnosed? Was progression to the fatal level of sugar was slow down? Was it speed up with treatment doctor Rx? No one publications about it. Diabetics type 1 do have time when they no longer take insulin injections. The time have name: 'honeymoon phase'. Diabetics type 2 do not have time like this. We are in constant progress to the final spot in line to grave. Why this is so? Is this really our lifestyle? Or it is difference in treatment we do have?
     I took Metformin and Glipizide almost ten years before I started to take insulin. Now I take insulin only. No Metformin. What is different? My cholesterol just great. It all the time was very high, even I took 80 mg Lipitor daily dose. I still need Excedrin, but I take usually less then 4 tablets daily dose. I do not need any painkillers. I still have headaches. I try to deal with them  by adding Excedrin 2 by 2 and usually in present time it is Nitrostat. My heart do not work properly. Regardless how many cardiologists I visited there is no diagnose that I had heart attack and what is wrong with my heart. Usually I do have only one type of therapy, barking therapy that I have to lose weight. So, I no longer go to cardiologists. Do not see reason to force my heart to work harder.
       Blood sugar as vital will heal diabetics early, so they will have less complications and next generation would be healthier then previous one. The cure for diabetes type 2. In present time diabetes type 2 progress to diabetes type 1, higher level of sugar, and not avoidable painful death.

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Toward a hand-held 'breathalyzer' for diagnosing diabetes

Date: November 9, 2016

Source: American Chemical Society

Summary:

For several years, scientists have been working toward "breathalyzers" that can diagnose various diseases without painful pinpricks, needles or other unpleasant methods. Now, one team has developed a new, portable breath analyzer that could someday help doctors diagnose diabetes noninvasively in the office.

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These Medicines Often Send Americans to ERs, Really? November 23, 2016

So easy to say, it is weight gain patient have, or it is life style, or it is medication patient take, but never medical care providers who are responsible for wrong medicine, or wrong diagnose, or any other wrong doing. Why it is so? Just take a look, whom to blame that diabetic in ER?

Diabetic patients taking insulin run into trouble when their blood-sugar levels fall too low, he (study co-author Dr. Daniel Budnitz) added. If they forget to eat or accidentally administer the wrong dose, they can pass out, fall and break a hip, he said.

True? FALSE!
        Take a moment how diabetic educated. What is most important treatment for us, all of us, diabetics and non diabetics? Weight loss. To bring  down my high blood sugar numbers I have to loose weight. I have to practice Starvation Diet, as it is proudly recommended by ADA. I am diabetic type 2. According to American Medical System I done it for myself. I can easy fix my medical condition with Starvation diet, about 800 calories daily meal. So, what will send me into ER when I start to practice this life style? That I forgot to eat? Or that doctor said that I have to lose weight?
      Now about wrong dose of insulin injection. What dose is 'right'?  How doctor Rx insulin and what doctors suggest how to take insulin dose? No one doctor can say what dose of insulin 'right' or 'wrong'. When we are in hospital they inject half of our daily dose as we said we do inject. In many cases they do reject to give to diabetic any insulin injection. They do not know how to determine dose of insulin to inject, and how to connect dose of insulin and level of sugar in blood. After that diabetic must find the way how to still alive and avoid high-low swings. If I passes out, it is my fault. I injected too high dose of insulin. So simple.

While medication safety has improved in hospitals, reducing harm from the medicines people take outside of the hospital remains a challenge, the study authors noted. 

      Another pretty interesting statement. Really, how safety was improved in hospital? Why after hospital people still not able to take medicine in right dose? Remember, it is ER. It is even not hospital. So, say me, how they improved safety medicine and how it is proved that improvement was done? Probably it is the same way how Mr. Davidson, woman in Florida, who come to ER with breathing problems, was discharged from ER with good vitals, and died less then an hour later when she was transferred to police station? As I do remember from my hospital and ER visits they simple discharge patient if one is in critical condition. I was forced to go out of ER after midnight with blood in my brain due to stroke. I still fight for my life. No one diagnose what is going wrong. All treatments for me only weight loss surgery. I refuse this treatment option. So, I still alive, and fight.

Illness such as diabetes and heart disease become more common with age and are treated with drugs commonly linked to emergency department visits, Budnitz explained. Also, "having chronic illnesses can make adverse events more serious when they do occur," he said.

       Why they so love to insists, we are prone to adverse events? What they are, those events which are adverse? Diabetes type 2? That diabetic with A1c=12.4 can easy  adverse so advanced medical condition just with right life style? In stead, diabetic type 2 come to hospital, and die behind the closed curtains. No any attention from medical staff.

Michael Cohen, president of the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices, said it's important to document trends in adverse drug events.
"They've been focusing on opioids, anticoagulants and antidiabetic drugs like insulin or the oral drugs that people take because these are the ones that are most likely to harm people," Cohen said.

      So simple, so easy to do. Just stop Rx insulin for diabetics and there is no ER visits. The question is, why they are so prone to Rx opioids? Because of high profit? Also it is coumadin which leads to bleeding, right? If so then why all diabetic have so badly body rush, bleeding?
     Really, this article is about what? BTW, is this really true that ER visits caused by those adverse problems? As I do remember, I come to ER because of stroke. I was discharged with paper that I had low blood sugar. I am diabetic type 2. I take 300 units of insulin. Regardless why I am in ER, the diagnose all the time the same, low blood sugar. So simple. Really, who know what really bring American into ER? All what we do know that patient was in ER, because payment to hospital. In article it is presented that it is kids and elderly who are more often visit ER. Say me why? Usually it is population who has medical insurance, so every one of then have primary doctors. Why doctors did not provide proper care for patients and patient did not have choice but to go to ER?
What about this reality?

These Medicines Often Send Americans to ERs

CDC cites blood thinners, antibiotics, diabetes drugs for nearly half of adverse drug-related events

Tuesday, November 22, 2016
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Day-by-Day. November 23, 2016

I feel I am very sick. Today blood sugar is 129 mg/dl, nice blood sugar level. Yesterday it was 278 units of insulin. It is high dose, very high. Lastly I did not take so high dose. I posted that dose of insulin dropped. Now it going up and up. I hardly able to curb it.
     Also there is another problem. Level of sugar going up to over 200 mg/dl, fasting. Then it drop below 70 mg/dl, the next day. It is only possible when I am getting worse rather then recovery. I try to treat all my health problems with one medicine, insulin. Of cause I take another medicine for heart, BP, Excedrin, Nitrostat. This medicine is in constant dose, regardless how do I feel. Insulin is different. Dose of insulin in constant change.
As I said, I do not feel good. Really I am very ill right now. Headache and heart. With every move I am out of breath. I am hardly able to move around apartment. Most time I try to get some sleep. It helps a little. 
       Looks like soon I would be not able to go out from my home. I even would not be able to go to my car, parked right in back door. Feel so weak, so ill.
      In many medical education there is what I have to do. They all do not see, we are ill people. Not at all. They see, I am fat, obese, eat too much, and all what I do deserve just mocking, barking , bulling, abusing. In this case I would ashamed myself, lose weight, and reverse diabetes type 2. Usually it works perfectly. Our mortality is highest then any other health conditions. We die because of sugar high or low, because of our heart not able to work properly, or because of our lungs have no energy to push air through our bodies, or because of our liver no longer able to clean our blood. The cause of deaths has no importance.

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Thankful

Yesterday was a good day, diabetes-wise.

Early in the day I had a conversation I'd been dreading. I needed to speak with someone from the school about diabetes accommodations specific to a high school event. It turned out to be a great conversation in which I was encouraged to clearly express my questions and worries. I was able to explain the aspects of living with diabetes which led to my concerns. The reaction I got was both compassionate and practical. I expect that, as a team, the school and our family will find just the right solution to our dilemma.

Late in the afternoon we had our quarterly endocrinologist appointment. I've mentioned before how thankful I am for our doctor and our clinic. I was, once again, grateful for wise, fresh eyes on the high blood sugar trends we're working on. We received advice delivered conversationally and with humor. And, while it partly reflected some early-fall lows, we left the clinic proud of my daughter's lowest A1C ever. I know... it's not supposed to be a 'report card. But after the amount of work we've put in to keep her blood sugar from spiraling out of control during this first fall of high school and marching band?  It felt like something worth celebrating.

This day I've described came on the tail of a local JDRF Summit I attended on Saturday. There I encountered people who don't have what we have. They have schools which won't budge on legally required accommodations like testing blood sugar in the classroom. They have doctors who don't take the time to work with them to improve their health or who, even worse, judge and criticize them. They had come to this event because they felt alone and unsupported in their diabetes worlds.

Which brings us back to the November theme of awareness...

I am aware that many families do not find a compassionate voice when they call their children's schools. I am aware that many families are fighting tooth and nail for basic, legally required accommodations. I am aware that many families don't have the time, language skills or knowledge to even ask for their children with diabetes' rights to be honored.

I am aware that there are people with diabetes in this world and country who have no means to get medical care at all. I am aware that much of what passes for diabetes care in this country is far inferior to what is offered at the specialized center we travel to.

I fell asleep last night feeling content that all was right in our little diabetes world. I woke this morning aware that there is work to be done so that more, if not all, families who live with diabetes have a shot at being as well supported as we are.




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Low Blood Sugar Mortality. Diabetes Awareness Month. November 22, 2016

      Low blood sugar mortality in hospitals, why we die in hospitals due to low blood sugar? In hospitals we die more then we die at home as a result of low blood sugar, why? At home we are able to deal with low blood sugar. Every one of us, diabetics who takes medicine, have low blood sugar episodes, if medicine does work. If it does not then we do have high, fatal level of sugar. We die because of high blood sugar level.
      86 millions of Americans live with constant risk to develop diabetes. The diabetes development can be sudden, and level of sugar can rise suddenly high, closer to the fatally high level. In this condition we transferred into hospitals. Now treatment started, insulin therapy. Insulin would be dropped into our blood with IV.  If we diagnosed with diabetes in clinic, it would be life style modification, first line of treatment. Metformin and SU would be added later. In hospital it would be insulin, regardless we just diagnosed with diabetes or we do have diagnosed doabetes for almost ten years, and regardless if it is diabetes type 2 or type 1. Both types of therapy, regardless it is SU for type 2 diabetics or insulin for those who transferred into ICU in hospital, both types of lowering blood sugar lead to low blood sugar.
     Low blood sugar reversible. With meal, right meal, nutrition, diabetic would recovery, no mortality. But this is hospital. In hospital IV in arm, insulin drops into blood, and level of sugar drops fatally low. Diabetic die.

In hospitalized patients, low blood sugar -- also known as hypoglycemia -- is associated with increased short- and long-term mortality risk, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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The conclusion they come to is:

 Federal government should increase funding for research at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reduce gaps in evidence related to hypoglycemia prevention and management;

Now the question is, would be mortality of diabetics drop with additional fundings? Not at all. Our sweet blood is already very profitable for Organized Medicine. Now with additional tread it will bring more profit, and mimic of treatment we do have. Why this is tread? Well, right now it is high blood sugar which lead to high diabetics mortality. With increased tread of low blood sugar our Organized medicine covers all the ways to escape. Does not matter we die from low blood sugar or high blood sugar, it is all the same, we die. Really, what is difference?

Mortality risk was higher in insulin-treated patients with moderate hypoglycemia (40-70 mg/dL), compared to patients without insulin treatment with similar glucose values. However, with severe hypoglycemia (<40 mg/dl), the increase in mortality risk was similar with insulin-related and non-insulin related hypoglycemia. Cause of admission did not affect the association between glucose levels and mortality.

 What is important in the studies? Really, what are the findings why patient die? Is this so important that one die because of treatment with insulin, or it is most important what level of sugar caused the death? As I said, they can study all about and around, still we will die, regardless it is high blood sugar or low blood sugar. We die because of our sweet blood is profitable. Then more us die they higher profit of Organized Medicine, then more funding they will have to find the cure, which they are never looking to find. They simple do not need it.
    It is easy to see that with blood sugar less then 40 mg/dl mortality in hospital is not avoidable. Patient with blood sugar level less then 40 mg/dl cannot recovery without outside help. We even cannot eat by ourselves. Even with higher level of sugar in blood, around 60 mg/dl I am almost not able to take any action, to get to my own kitchen. This is why I do keep protein bars, OJ, and bottle of coffee on all my tables, and around my place. When we are camping, this kit all the time in my tent, next on my sleeping spot. At home it is on my night table.
      It is different in hospital. Cup of chicken broth can safe life. Chinese soup, easy to get ready, just add boiling water, and let patient take it. There is no meal on nursing stations. At night kitchen is closed. No meal for patient with low blood sugar. It is possible that glucose would be given. Glucose is not nutrition. No one who is hungry replace meal with glucose tablet. We are fatally hungry. We need nutrition. There is no nutrition for diabetics in hospitals.

To increase awareness of hypoglycemia in people with diabetes and to foster initiatives focused on reducing its incidence, the Endocrine Society established the Hypoglycemia Quality Collaborative (HQC), a coalition of medical specialty societies, payers, industry, patient advocates, diabetes educators and research organizations.

Did I say how profitable our sweet blood? They all drink it without stopping for the last drop of it. They all need own chunk of our sweet pie.

One complication of diabetes, hypoglycemia, occurs most often in people taking medications to manage their blood sugar. These treatments can raise insulin levels too high, which can in turn cause blood glucose levels to drop too low. Hypoglycemia can be dangerous and, depending on the severity, can lead to various symptoms, including dizziness, confusion, anxiety, seizure or loss of consciousness.

To prevent the fatality of low blood sugar, what studies show? Nothing. Why? Because of there is nothing about prevention of mortality. It is all about studies, a coalitions, and awareness how to get more money before we die. This is the studies about. Prove?
       Insulin level is not high because of level of sugar is low.  Insulin level depend on the ability patient's pancreas to secret insulin or the dose of insulin injection diabetic too, or the dose of SU doctor Rx to treat diabetes type 2. Both, the level of sugar and the level of insulin in blood  can be low at the same time. When blood sugar is low and we start to eat, we are so severely hungry that we get more hungry with every next bite we take  then we where before our first bite. Why? There is no insulin in our blood. Simple shot of Lantus Solo Star prevent this condition. When I take Lantus Solo Star before I start to eat when blood sugar low, I recovery faster. Also, if diabetic take anything sweet it leads to crash but do not lead to blood sugar returning to the normal level, in contrary with diabetes education medical presentations and studies. Hot chicken broth  is most effective way to prevent not only mortality but lead to full, comfortable, and fast recovery. It is easy to get ready at any moment everywhere. Just add boiling or hot water to the chicken dry broth, and it will push Death away.
      There are no one studies, what prevent mortality diabetics and not diabetics in hospitals due to low blood sugar.

"Hypoglycemia is common among hospitalized patients with and without diabetes mellitus," said the study's senior author, Amit Akirov, MD, of Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Israel. "Our findings suggest that hypoglycemia, whether insulin-related or non-insulin related, is associated with short- and long-term mortality risk."

As it is easy to see, every one can be in situation we are. Not diabetics type 2, but anyone. This is why, all of those who pretend we are, diabetics type 2 done it for ourselves, be careful. Do not trough stone into my big fatty belly. Try to get educated before Death rises aside your bed.

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Diabetes Type 2 Awareness Month. November 21, 2016

Blood sugar today is 78 mg/dl, fasting. Two days before it was 237 md/dl, fasting.
      Usually, when sugar spikes out of regular regime the first question we do have is, why it is so? And right now in my mind, what did I eat and how much I did eat? When last time I ate before blood sugar reading?  Even I do not convince that blood sugar is response to meal, the amount of carbs I did eat, I still looking back and pay attention, too close attention to the meal I ate before. This is all in our  washed brains, connection between meal, carbs, and level of sugar in blood. I do know, I should not take it for granted that my meal, carbs, and level of sugar in my blood in direct connection. Still, I am looking in this direction. We all do.
      A few weeks ago my blood work was done and now there are results on my account in hospital. All my blood test reading just nice and smooth, best I ever had. Even Vit D is within normal range. It is all the time low in Fall and Winter. Even cholesterol is good. I little bit TG over the range but not so far from normal level. I used to have TG >900. It was scared. Now it is a little be higher then it must be, but almost good. All just right and good, ..... my A1c=7.9%. Say me why? Just say me, why it is going up rather then down? As I posted before my weight went down for 20 pounds. Why sugar went up? Last blood test A1c7.2%. Now it is 7.9%, why?
       There is not so much stress in my life. My Sleep Aphnea is under control. I sleep all night long and my breathing without stopping now. Also looks like my kidney started to work better. I can go to NY Phill, and I do not rush in intermission to take line in restroom. I even do not rush after concert. Just use to go as normal person, no rush, no extra Ladies Room visits. Last check up for BP is also pretty good, practically normal. My asthma is under pretty good control and I usually no longer do have asthma attacks.
So, why A1c=7.9%? Why it is going up rather then drop?
     There are many questions. There is no one who will give the answer. I have to find those answers by myself. I try very hard to find them.
      As I said, it is in our brain washed mind that we connect blood sugar level with amount of carbs and meal we ate. I try to vanish this from my brain. It is really does not matter, not important values.  What is important? Level of sugar in blood is the indicator, there is The Problem, and It must be fixed. If I do not find my way, I cannot survive.
      The level of sugar in my blood going down with insulin injection.  It works every time, no any exceptions. So, to have blood sugar within healthy range I have to inject right dose of insulin. It does not matter, I need 50 units a day or 400 units a day, just take the dose I need and keep blood sugar under control. It does not matter I do eat 100 carbs or 1000 carbs, I still need to fix it with right dose of insulin, and I can do it with insulin. So, the amount of carbs or the amount of meal, or the weight I do have is really not important. The most important is the dose of insulin, right or wrong.With right dose of insulin blood sugar under control. With wrong dose of insulin blood sugar is too high or too low.
     I do not take any short or rapid acting types of insulin. They do not work for me. I tried many times, and finally I just accepted the fact, I should not inject any insulin of these types. Really, what's going on when I inject rapid acting insulin? It force me to eat right away. I am hungry. If I try to skip meal I can lost consciousness. So, right away to take meal.  Two hours after injected insulin stop to work, and my blood sugar going up. I have to take another shot, take meal, and .... . Short acting insulin do not control blood sugar level. It simple drop sugar for short time and then sugar going up even higher.
     I all the time post, it is not the sugar in blood what is the problem. It is level of insulin in blood and which is available to be used as needed. Short acting insulin fight blood sugar. It attached to the glucose and bring level of sugar down. It still do not provide body with energy to function properly. This is why short acting insulin such as Novolog do not bring long term benefits.
     It is different with long acting insulin. This type of insulin stay in blood up to 20 hours. It can be used as needed. The recommendations of developers to take insulin shot at the eve, before bed, one time daily. Also it is presented that it stay in blood up to 20 hours. Logically to ask, how do we know it? What does it mean that insulin stay in blood up to 20 hours? The logic answer is, it does not work in this way. If insulin used as needed it can be used up just within one hour, or stay in blood up to 24 hours. It is depend of the dose of injection and the need of body, the level or stage of diabetes development. So, depending on the need in insulin it can stay in blood even when injected only 20 units, and be out of blood even injected 100 units.
      There are studies how many times to take insulin injections, once daily? twice daily? What is better? The answer is also in the need in insulin dose. If the dose is 20 units daily then it is not reasonable to take three shots. If dose is 400 units, it is not possible to take all daily dose in one shot. In study there were no any connection with dose of insulin injection. Only how many times to put needle into belly. Mean-less studies.
      Many studies have only one reasonable meaning, money in grants to be collected by studies.

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Prevention of Diabetes type 2 Vs Treatment for Diabetes type 2. November 20, 2016

Every one post or publish about diabetes type 2, and how to solve the problem. What do people know about diabetes? How they do see us, diabetics type 2? What medical Brain Washers educate the public?

Early detection a key factor in fight against type 2 diabetes

 November 16, 2016

Source:

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Summary:

Roughly 86 million Americans have prediabetes, and the vast majority of them don’t even know they have it. But the progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes is not inevitable, and there’s a simple blood test that can determine whether a person’s blood glucose levels need attention.

So, let us read this very important understanding, what is Reality and where is The Show.
 Let us try to Find it before it becomes a problem, as it was told by :
"The phrase I use is prevention by detection," said Joseph Aloi, M.D., section chief of endocrinology and metabolism at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina."

It's no secret that diabetes -- elevated blood glucose levels caused by the body's failure to produce enough insulin (type 1) or properly use it (type 2) to process sugars -- has reached epidemic proportions in the United States.

The Question is, type 1 diabetes do properly use insulin? It is not the case. It all the time was presented before that diabetics type 1 do not produce insulin at all. Now, it is another presenytation. They do produce insulin, but the amount of insulin available in secretion is not enough to cover body need for healthy function. This is why part of glucose taken from blood and diabetics type 1 still alive. There is no additional part of insulin to support healthy living. So, diabetics type 1 do have elevated level of sugar in blood. This sugar has no insulin to be attached with and used properly for healthy body function.
     Now there is another question, do diabetics type 2 have enough insulin produced by pancreas to be used properly? Not at all. This is why diabetics type 2 need more then 200 units of insulin to survive. (diabetics type 1 use less then 50 units, to compare.) When insulin in injections is not available, diabetics type 2 develop all types of complications, all our organs one by one collapse, and diabetics type 2 die timelessly taking spot number 7  the cause of all American causes of Death. Society named it, diabetic type 2 epidemic.

What's less known is that nearly three times as many Americans -- roughly 86 million -- have prediabetes, a condition where blood sugar levels are above normal but still below the threshold for type 2.

Who they are, those 86 millions who are prediabetics today? Are they type 1 diabetics whose insulin secretion is almost normal but still not enough to cover body needs to function properly? Are they type 2 diabetics whose body do not use insulin properly? BTW, how insulin used in diabetics type 2 bodies? Where insulin, secreted by diabetic type 2 pancreas going? How it is used? If there is insulin in diabetics type 2 blood which can be used? Questions, questions, ....  where are the answers?

"Prediabetes is a great opportunity to prevent diabetes," Aloi said. "The A1C test really helps you hone in on whether there's a problem, and if there is, to start addressing it. It's a simple, inexpensive test that doesn't require any special preparation but can provide a lot of good information."

Simple, not expensive, why it is not vital test? In every hospital in NYC when I am in ER the X-Ray test run. Al the time. Why A1c for me, diabetic type 2 on 300 units of insulin dose daily not the vital, and I do not have my blood checked year after year? Even for me, diabetics type 2 with high blood sugar level? The answer is simple, because of I am diabetic type 2. A1c test will show that treatment doctor Rx to me do not work. This is why I enter in doctor clinic and doctor used to say: "Today your blood sugar is 102. It is good." Why it is good? Because of it is fasting sugar, and I just took SU to increase insulin secretion by my own pancreas, already very weak and ill. As diabetic type 2 I trust in doctor, and I do not have medical degree.
     Not any more. There is no any trust in doctors anymore.

"The fasting test is a snapshot of what your blood sugar level is at that one specific time, which may or may not be representative of what's really going on," Aloi said. "The A1C test, on the other hand, is sort of a report card for the past 90 days, and that's a more valuable indicator."

Why it is fasting sugar taken  into diagnose? As it was told above, it is diabetics type 2 weak ability to process meal. After meal time my blood sugar going up up to 4 or even 5 hours before it start to drop. So, fasting level of sugar when there is no need in insulin my level of sugar is lowest. Lowest level of sugar never danger if it is not low blood sugar. It is highest level of sugar which is danger. Then why test is fasting blood sugar rather then level of sugar after meal? Give good meal to person, and take a test for how long and for how high blood sugar would be rising. If one is not diabetic then blood sugar will drop back to normal withing 2 hours, and never will run above 180 mg/dl. Simple. Comfortable. Not expensive.

Various institutions and organizations offer different recommendations but generally agree that you should at least discuss blood glucose screening with a doctor if you have any of the common risk factors for diabetes, even if you don't have any symptoms.

Sorry, did you try to discuss anything with your doctor? Really I tried. I am diabetic type 2. As I said, my blood sugar only now tested regularly for A1c. Before doctors did not do it. Even in hospital. So simple. No test if one is ill. They easy to test if one is not in danger condition, is not very ill. If one is in critical condition, one would be forced out of hospital, out of clinic, and usually doctors are busy to serve other patients, or do have some meetings. Why not? They will have $$$$ regardless how patient was treated or not treated at all.

"I believe my job is to help people make correct choices, and to do that they need to have good information," he said. "And part of that is screening for prediabetes and diabetes."

If you pretend you are doing job then why do not say, take blood sugar level as VITALS? There is no any need in any screenings. Test for blood sugar level is not expensive, easy to take, simple, effective. If the level of sugar, random at any time is less then 180 mg/dl, then there is no need to run expensive tests. It is too simple and too not expensive. Our medical care prefer another way to do the job.

"For most patients, especially if we're catching prediabetes, the changes they need to make can be small but still effective.
"Losing 10 to 12 pounds and walking 20 minutes a day can be better than medicine. Sometimes restricting carbohydrates or adding more fiber to the diet helps a lot, and for younger patients simply eliminating sugary drinks might be enough."

Well, it is too easy to be true. Now the question is, if one take sugary drink, would his sugar rise? Not at all, if one is not diabetic. If one is diabetic then healthy eating such as blueberry will rise blood sugar level. There is another question, what about pounds? If one lost 20 pounds from 120 total body weight would be one diabetic or not? Of cause he will. Every diabetic, regardless of type we stamped with will lost pound when blood sugar way too high, above 500 mg/dl. We all lose weight. We simple cannot walk for 20 minutes when level of sugar is way too high. As doctor one must do know it.

"You're obviously better off preventing the complications from occurring than trying to treat them," Aloi said.  

Why prevention is more important then treatment? Because of with prevention it is working perfectly, 100%. Great difference with treatment. If treatment is wrong, we die. This is why diabetics type 2 die so early, painfully. We simple do not have treatment which works. We do have 'prevention' even our diabetes is already surfaced and in full bloom. Insulin will safe millions of lives, as it saved mine. There is no insulin for diabetics type 2. We do not need insulin, as it is all the time presented by medical brain washing education programs. We need to lose weight. Do we?
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Diabetes Awareness Month. November 18, 2016

I try to find out the connection between level of sugar in blood and dose of insulin I do have to inject or I already injected. I take long acting type of insulin, Lantus Solo Star. As it is in all medical education publications, it will stay in my blood up to 20 hours, or probably even more. It is how it is presented by official medicine developers. The problem is, even I am not really common diabetic because of my very high dose of insulin, no one ever asked me how do it works, for how long I do have level of sugar in blood withing normal range. I use sometimes to take own hour blood sugar reading. So, I could see if sugar under control or it is going low or high. There were no one medical official who ever asked me how so high dose of insulin work for me and how do I stay out of hospital with dose of insulin higher then 300 units daily.
       This is really not about me, but about doctor-patient contact and how medicine controlled by medical providers. Really it doesn't look as we are in contact, medical provider, patient, and disease. We are not connected. Usually doctor ask if I do control blood sugar, or blood pressure or temperature of the body, and when all those question asked? When they are out of control. I need medicine to stay alive and functional. In stead I do have blame that it is I who do not control my vitals.
       This is why I really do not take as it is reliable to assume that insulin I injected in the morning would be in my blood for the rest of the day. It will not. During day I will take two more shots, if I am lucky and I am not on high/low swings. Still, the pattern, how insulin dose and level of sugar in blood connected is vital for me and it is I who have to find this pattern.
       I am reasonable man. I am thinking, probably too much for commoner. And now there is question: How many times any one of us were asked if we control body temperature or not? Yes, I was asked, why? Because of it was time when temperature of my body was elevated, not days or month but years. So, it was taken as it is my temperature of body, and it is normal for me. No one docter ever saw that I am ill, weak, and many other vitals are abnormal. Simple, medical care have no idea how to address to the condition I am in.
      Still, for the many of us temperature of body is the same day after day, regardless how much we do eat. What if one get ill and temperature of body risen? Would be that Life style modification is the treatment regime? Not at all. It would be antibiotics therapy, in contrary to Diabetes type 2, potentially fatal medical condition.
      Now there is another question: would be it is the question what dose of antibiotics to inject in ICU if one in critical condition? Not at all. The regime of therapy would be based on the ability of body to accept the amount of medicine, and the amount of medicine would be according to the need of body to heal. My English is not really good, so I am not sure if reader understand my point. The point is, antibiotics would be given till body pass turn  point and start to recovery. Then under supervision  the dose of medicine would go down till full recovery. This is the basic.
       Now the question is, why diabetic type 2 have to take this treatment regime such as 'life style modifications' or 'cost effective'? Really why? Because of we are just one to blame why our pancreas cannot secret the amount of insulin our body needs to healthy function? What fault is mine? Nothing under my control. I simple ill person who try to still alive and fight day after day full my life for existence, for the right to live.
       Now, when I look at the connection between level of sugar and dose of insulin I am thinking, probably it is the same, take it as it is antibiotic therapy, just take as much as body capable to accept, and try to avoid low blood sugar but do net get to scary of it. Really? It is easy to say but so difficult to do! Today my fasting was 96 mg/dl. Dose of insulin I injected Yesterday was 220 units. I felt very low. I am home, alone, no help if I need it. I try to take insulin shot before every high meal, but it is so scared to inject insulin when I feel low sugar. It is scared. So, at first I went to kitchen to take my meal and after that I took my shot. Not right way to dealing with sugar high or low, but it is way what can I do right now.

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Indication for Humulin® R U-500. November 17, 2016

Humulin R U-500 is a concentrated human insulin indicated to improve glycemic control in adults and children with diabetes mellitus requiring more than 200 units of insulin per day.

As usual, there are something missing in the medical diagnose and treatment how to treat the medical condition one diagnosed with. Say me, what does it mean that diabetic needs more then 200 units of insulin per day?

What is Humulin 70/30? Humulin 70/30 contains a combination of insulin isophane and insulin regular. Insulin is a hormone that works by lowering levels of glucose (sugar) in the blood. Insulin isophane is a intermediate-acting insulin.

Another dosages are 50/50 or 30/70. So, really what does it mean that Humalin R U-500 Rx for? It is easy to say that diabetic needs to take 200 units of insulin. Which type of it? There are different types of insulin, short acting, long acting insulin, rapid acting insulin, and combination of all and every one of them. Humalin is type of insulin where long acting insulin and short acting insulin combined. So, to say '200 units' mean that there is no any info what %%% of any one of these  types.
There is another point, for whom this type of insulin would be Rx? Type 2 diabetics? Type 1 diabetic, LADA? MODY?  It is all the time presented that oral medications are not for type 1 diabetics. They need to take insulin to control blood sugar level. They do have pancreas which do not secret insulin or immune system attacks own Beta Cells and destroy them. Diabetics type 1 diagnosed as children or teens, and they all the time on insulin therapy. Dose of insulin drops with time. It is healing process. Even it probably never would be 100% sufficient, with time dose of insulin drops, in any type of diabetic with insulin therapy. So, really is this true that diabetics type 1 need 200 units of insulin? Who need to inject 200 units of insulin and even more?
      It is diabetics type 2. With time and treatment with Metformin and SU our Beta Cells destroyed and insulin secretion practically not possible. This is why C Peptide level in my blood was 5 or less, I do not remember right now. What does it mean? I have no clue. I do not care about any tests as long as I do have medicine I need.
      Now, when dose of insulin over 200 units daily, how to dose insulin?

“One of the questions that our colleagues wondered about was whether giving the insulin twice a day versus three times a day might be better… This trial gave us the answer.”

       It is medical web side. They are talking about how many shots daily diabetic will take. They pretend it is so important. Of cause it is important, but how important is it? They do not know how to determine dose of insulin, how to find how many units inject with every injection, and they pretend, it is most important how many times to take a shot? Sorry, the first things are first, dose of insulin. As it is said, diabetic need more then 200 units of insulin. I injected 400 a day, highest dose I injected. And now someone will say to me how many times I have to put need into my belly?  But when it is time to take a shot? No one word about it. It is easy to speculate that if there are two shots a day then it is morning and evening. But in the morning my sugar is 63 mg/dl today, and in the eve it can be also 63, but in another day. So, if sugar is 63 mg/dl I have to inject 100 units of insulin?  really I am not so brave. The count of shots two or three they studied. The treatment regime they missed  to study, like it is not important part of insulin therapy. At the same time, it is Humalin, combination type of insulin which combined short acting and long acting types of insulin.
 

Dosing Errors: Extreme caution must be observed in measuring the dose of Humulin R U-500 because inadvertent overdose may result in serious adverse reaction or life-threatening hypoglycemia.

          
It is so simple, be careful, and it is all what they were able to say how to dose insulin. Really? Who suppose to find out this dose and how? Diabetic type 2 who just started insulin therapy and dose of insulin one must inject is higher then 200 units? Dose of insulin to inject as it is recommended by ADA is Weight in Lbs :4= dose of insulin in units. So, what weight it suppose to be if diabetic needs more then 200 units of insulin? 200units*4=800 pounds. How many diabetics type 2 do have such weight?
      It is all the time presented that we are, diabetics type 2 do have high blood sugar level because of our obesity, really? I am not sure that one with weight more then 800 pounds do have diabetes. Usually we die before our weight hit this level.

Hyperglycemia, Hypoglycemia, or Death Due to Dosing Errors in the Vial Presentation: Medication errors associated with the Humulin R U‑500 vial resulting in patients experiencing hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, or death have been reported.

Dosing errors also have no clear meaning. If I do take 300 units instead of 200 units as Rx by doctor it is error. But what if I injected dose of insulin as it was Rx by doctor, 200 units, one day after another, Humalin U-500, would be it is danger for me or it is just fine? Not at all. This is the problem, biggest problem in diabetes type 2 treatment. This is why medical providers all treat diabetics type 2, but no one of them Rx insulin. They easy to Rx all medicine such as Invokana and Metformin, but insulin, no to insulin, they are all Insulin -Resistant.
     It is most important to find right dose for every day injections, and there still no clue how to find this dose. Today my fasting sugar is 63 mg/dl. It was very low in the morning. I hardly was able to get to the kitchen and take my bite. Yesterday I injected 220 units of Lantus Solo Star. My fasting sugar Yesterday was 118 mg/dl, and insulin dose for day before Yesterday was 219 units. Why so big gap between two fasting readings? It is easy to speculate that I need to reduce dose of insulin. If I do so, sugar going up, and I have to increase insulin dose.  Who will say me how many units I have to take with every injection, regardless it is two shots a day or three? No one doctor will be able to answer to this question.
      ADA very reach in publications and in education how we suppose to eat. ADA never published the pattern how to inject insulin. So simple, they ignore it as it has no any importance. There are plenty  recipes on ADA web, there is no one table how dose of insulin come together with glucose readings. They educate diabetics how many types of insulin on market. They never educate diabetic how different types of insulin effect blood sugar level. For instance, I cannot take Novolog, Humalog, Apidra, or any combination long acting insulin and short acting insulin. I cannot take Toujeo, long acting insulin. It simple do not work for me. Newly diagnosed diabetic type 2 have no experience in diabetes treatment. They simple trust in doctors, and they take all Trash Medicine such as Metformin or Invokana their doctors Rx for them. Then with time they get heart failure and eventually if they are lucky they will need to take insulin, more then any type 1 diabetic, more then 200 units daily dose.
     Now, after reading all this info, what can I think if my doctor try to Rx Humalin U-500 to me? This type of insulin is not for me. I prefer to take two shots but different types of insulin in different shot. I will not take in one shot short acting insulin and long acting insulin. Why? Simple, I do not see reason to take both at the same time. It is insulin. It is not easy to deal with it. Any error can lead if not to Death then to many complications and lost of concussions. Also I do not see why take short acting insulin in first place? I see no reason in this therapy, and this therapy never worked for me. I can give a try to concentrated insulin, but without any add-ons to it as it is in Toujeo. So, my choice still stand: Lantus Solo Star. Easy to use. Reliable. Trusted.

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Diabetes type 2. Diabetes Awareness Month. November 17, 2016

President elect D.Trump transition rise many questions and concerns. Obama Care is one of them. What would happen with our Medical Health System? This question is in mined everyone, regardless one is ill or healthy. This question is in my mind too. There are suggests what to do and how to fix the American Health System. I do have something in my mind.
      In present time no one of us has any effect on the treatment we have to take. Everyone publish how expensive diabetes treatment and how obesity epidemic effect American Health System. No one ever see how this stereotype effect our lives, diabetics type 2. Over 70,000 Americans die every year due to high blood sugar level. Every year. Still our Medical Educators insist, diabetes no longer fatal for diabetics. This number is not the number of diabetics type 2 who lost combat to diabetes. It is number of only those of us who die due to high, fatally high level of sugar in blood, not treated diabetes type 2. Why diabetes type 2 rather then diabetes type 1? Because of diabetics type 1 take insulin, so they can control blood sugar level and do not get to the fatally high blood sugar level. Diabetics type 2 do not have this opportunity.
      Every one who read this post can say that diabetics type 1 die due to low blood sugar level, result of insulin therapy.  No one will say that diabetics type 2 die from low blood sugar resulted uncontrolled SU therapy and many other medicine which we take and have no one idea what is going on with our life. My first episode of low blood sugar was right after I was diagnosed with diabetes and started to take Glipizide, SU, medicine which increase insulin secretion by my own pancreas, already ill and very very weak. In my blood level of sugar dropped to 40 mg/dl. What doctor said? "It is important! We do care for low sugar more then for high blood sugar. Get dress and follow me." The end of the visit.  It took me almost ten years to educate myself, he is not one who can help, and I left his office, never look back.
      ADA publish recommendations how to diagnose diabetes and how to treat diabetes, all types of it, type 1 and type 2 including. Take a moment and try to find out how to use these recommendations?  Really, what are those education ADA publish on its Web?
How to live healthy with diabetes...... ????????? 
     Sorry, I am very ill person. I am not able to take shower or put on my shoe. Would you please recommend how can I get out from my home and walk around my building? Naked? In Winter? Sorry, it is cold outside.
How to eat healthy.... ????
       Sorry, I am no longer able to work, so there is no one penny in my pocket. I depend on what my family provide. When my man lost his job my SSI and Medicaid were terminated because of his SSI check was $1348, and poverty line is $1100 for family of two. Our rent over $1600, it is NYC, rent is expensive here. My insulin supply was terminated right away. I cannot pay for insulin. It is $2000 monthly supply.  Social Security office never give me appointment for hearing. Now every month some company try to collect $11,000 from me. I said, go ahead. They threaten me they will take money from my check. Great! They cannot take 100% so please put the rest of this check on my account. LOLOL.
       What I never was able to find on ADA web, how to dose insulin. Yes, there are some recommendations how to dose insulin. It is my weight 360Lbs:4= 80 units of insulin daily dose. Really? I take three shots 80 units each and sometimes it is not fit, I have to increase dose up to 400 units. Never forget, I am diabetic type 2. With SU I took almost 10 years my pancreas did lost ability to secret insulin. If it was ten years ago I would be fine with insulin. Now insulin is too late. I am way too far on the road.
      On the web and everywhere in Medical Publications there are happy people who count calories and control diabetes type 2 with right healthy meal choice. There is never pictures of Diabetics type 2 with never healing wounds, puss running from the wounds, smelly. Our body is 'dirty' with brown skin, sugar deposits under skin. Our breath is smelly, and our teeth are yellow. Why? It is sugar in every breath we do take. Gangrene is common complication of diabetes type 2. Why it is so? Is this really cost effective treatment diabetics type 2 do have with long Metformin therapy and life style modifications?  Insulin taken in right dose in right regime will safe our lives, heal our wounds, keep body in the shape, there is no insulin for diabetics type 2. It is costly. Metformin is really cost effective medicine to reduce aging American Population. It is cheap, just $4 month supply, and very effective. Today Diabetes type 2 is number 7 cause of Death all around the Globe.       

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