How Accurate Is Your HbA1c?
Anyone else think their HbA1C doesn’t match their glucose averages? Even if you test 10 times a day on a regular blood glucose meter, there are not enough measurements to make a case that your measured...
View ArticleDexcom G4 Sensor Number 6
Gone are the days when not many people knew anything about diabetes. Unfortunately, too many people now know what it is, but what they know is often wrong. We could play the blame-game here, but I’ll...
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Strip Safely Campaign
We’ve long known that our lives with diabetes depend on accurate glucose meter readings. We’ve also known that fixing of the allowable +/- 20% error is long overdue! There’s a campaign going in the...
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Medical IDs
Do you have diabetes and wear a medical ID? Why Wear a Medical ID? Every person with diabetes – at the very minimum, those on insulin or other diabetes medications – could be in dire straights if...
View ArticleGluten Free Chewing Gum – Australia
Next month, in November, it’s one year since I went gluten-free. Before that, I always had a pack of chewing gum in my handbag. The other day I realised that I had to do some research. I haven’t had...
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Dexcom G4 Dead Transmitter
My Dexcom G4 transmitter died today, just one week short of a year. I still have one sensor left, so that’s $100 down the drain in itself. Happy I got this long out of the transmitter. It’s been the...
View ArticleCrowd Funding for a New Dexcom G4 Platinum CGM
I loved my Dexcom G4 so much last year! Sadly, if you follow my blog, you’ll know the transmitter died in late December. I can’t tell you how much I miss it! Sadly, I can’t afford to buy a new one,...
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Low Carb Down Under Aus/NZ Tour November 2014 with Jimmy Moore
A must-see series of Low Carb events is being held in Australia this month! With speakers like USA’s low carb guru Jimmy Moore from Livin’ La Vida Low Carb fame, these events promise to be awesome,...
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Aussie LADA Support Group on Facebook
I’ve finally done it! A friend and I have stared an Aussie LADA support group and we’ve launched today! After being a member of a USA-based LADA group for years, I kept seeing a need for a group based...
View ArticleDiet Successes
Put me in a room of people discussing weight loss and I’ll tell you that the room will soon form little clumps of people touting one diet or another. The more widely used diets have their proponents,...
View ArticleCGM Tips
If you’re new to wearing a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor), here are some tips in no particular order: Hydration is very important. The CGM takes its measurements from interstitial fluid not blood....
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