Diabetes Savings

Welcome Thrifty Patients! Here you will find all the tips you need from dealing with insurance companies to saving money on diabetes products. Remember, managing your diabetes begins with taking care of the whole person.

Diabetes Treatment Information: Start Here

Type 1: Treatment
While much less common than type 2 diabetes, type 1 diabetes has been growing in incidence over the years. Type 1 diabetes is usually discovered in childhood or adolescence.

Insurance Help

Managing Your Mellitus Diet

Comparing Low-Carb and Low-Glycemic
Nobody ever compared whether a low-carb or a low-glycemic diet works better to control our blood glucose levels. Until now.
Food Diaries Help Diabetes Management
If you want to lose weight, doing something as simple as recording what you eat might make the biggest difference.
Learning to Use Diabetic Exchange Lists
The objective of diabetic exchange lists is to maintain the proper balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats throughout the day. Patients should meet with a dietician or diabetes nutrition expert for help in learning this approach.
Diabetes Recipes
Eating properly is naturally a challenge, and an even bigger one for diabetics. Read on for easy-to-follow recipes.
An Eating Philosophy for Diabetics
Food issues, along with blood glucose monitoring, remain the most discussed issues in clinic visits when it comes to practical concerns in diabetes management.
Chia Seeds
You might think that everyone who has diabetes would know about a seed that is superior to other plant and marine sources of essential omega-3 oils. But we have more misinformation about it than we have knowledge.

Cost Saving Tips

Losing Weight on a Mellitus Diet

Medical Treatment for Diabetes

Diabetes Medication
From Actos to Xenical, find information on diabetes drugs: drug interactions, dosage information, warning signs and drug pictures are available here.
Diabetes Tests and Results
Information on screening and other types of tests given to those with diabetes. Included: Find out your Body Mass Index.
Emergency Diabetes Treatment
See a picture of glucagon, which is typically administered as an emergency diabetes treatment when a patient is suffering from symptoms of hypoglycemia -- confusion, seizures, or unconsciousness.