Diabetes Links

(Note: Although I think these sites offer good information many of these contain fat-phobic stuff mixed within. Please remember never to take anything you read (including on these pages!) as fact without thinking it through and, if possible and/or necessary, talking it out with your health care team.)

There are two Diabetes web rings that I know of at www.webring.org, the first lists over 60 pages and the second around 40. So that gives you about 100 pages to poke through.

The Diabetes site at the Mining Company has a treasure of good information. Yes, the "Guides" there get money for running their sites, but the Diabetes "Guide" seems like a nice person who really cares about diabetics, including her husband. (And I'm not just saying this because she quoted me in a newsletter. :-)

The American Diabetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation are two of the biggest support and research organizations out there for diabetics in general. For folks north of the US there is the Canadian Diabetes Association.

The incredible Radiance Magazine has, in it's archives, a terrific article about fat-accepting ways of handling diabetes and our doctors.

About Insulin

Not just for insulin users, Eli Lilly has a section on Managing Your Diabetes. Lilly is the maker of many human insulins, including Humalog, Lente, and Ultralente.

The other big insulin maker is Novo-Nordisk. They also make insulin pens.

For those of us using syringes & pens, the Becton Dickinson (BD) Diabetes Village is full of useful info, including a page about how to inject insulin.

Do you need a prescription for insulin & syringes where you live? Here's a page that tries to answer that for you. (Courtesy of the Diabetes mailing list, which has lots of interesting info, but I'm afraid they're fat-phobic. *sigh*)

Oral Medications

Glucophage primarily works by reducing the amount of sugar released by the liver. It also has an effect on insulin resistance.

Avandia also has a web site, as does Actos. Both are fairly new oral anti-insulin-resistance drugs that may be used in place of Rezulin. Rezulin was the first of this class of drugs but has been removed from the shelves in the US (as well as other countries) due to the potential for serious liver problems.

Prandin is taken before meals and helps your pancreas produce more insulin to cover the meal (if it can).

The sulfonlyureas, including Glucotrol (aka Glipizide), Gliburide (aka Glynase or Diabeta), and Amaryl all work to increase the pancreas's output of insulin.

Other Common Medications We Take

coming soon...

Meters & Testing

Boehringer-Mannheim, maker of Accuchek meters, has merged with Roche. Information about Accuchek meters can be found off the Roche Diagnostics page.

LifeScan, another meter manufacturer, has Diabetes Self Care pages, along with information about their meters.

The Children with Diabetes web site, while not applicable to most of us :-), has a list and reviews of most of the major meters out there. They also have a link to the Meters List which has things from contact info for meter companies (not Internet contact info, though) to highly technical details about the meters.

Other Stuff

Checking your feet regularly is a good way to prevent amputation. The Lower Extremity Amputation Prevention Program aims to help teach foot screening and offers both information plus free monofilaments to use to test your feet.

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(Last updated 3/29/00)