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Ginger Vieira

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Type 1 for 10 years. Personal Trainer, Yoga Instruc., Powerlifter

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posted 08/31/2009, comments (2)

Lasik Eye Surgery & Diabetes!

My biggest fear before going to the free eye screening for Lasik surgery was definitely my diabetes. Some people aren’t candidates for Lasik because their corneas aren’t thick enough to reshape or because their vision is out of the acceptable range for correction, but I was worried that diabetics in general weren’t candidates.... Read more Chevron

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Andrew Berry

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posted 08/06/2009, comments (6)

Nutritional/Vitamin Supplements for Diabetes

(Click this link to see Andrew's articles and interviews with Andrew on exercise, nutrition & diabetes.) While diabetes most noticeable impacts the way your body processes glucose and your blood sugar levels, other parts of the body are effected over time. Of course, well managed blood sugars will reduce the impact on your... Read more Chevron

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Roxy

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posted 01/10/2009, comments (3)

My Blood Infection

A few posts ago i shared my struggle with diabetes and how i was not taking responsibility for my health, well this past December i became very sick. I had a filling fall out of one of my molars and it got infected, the infection got into my stomache from swallowing the puss, and i ended up with a blood infection. I was terribly sick, i could not... Read more Chevron

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Katie Mauro

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posted 05/29/2008, comments (3)

Q: What are some of the ways that diabetes affects you that people don't think about?

Hi everyone. So I have to give a speach on behalf of JDRF next Tuesday and my theme is going to be "Diabetes & It's Lesser-Known Side Effects", something a little different then the usual speach about statistics & blindness & getting poked multiple times a day. So I wanted to ask all of you if you had any thoughts on way that diabetes... Read more Chevron

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