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10-30-2008, 09:43 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Melbourne
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Holy ****.... just asking about my NDSS card (discount card for diabetics and access to various services...) and the lady on the phone said that 250 people a week are being diagnosed with diabetes in our state.....
Pardon me for being some what blown away....no wonder it takes 4 months to see an educator and 3 to see an endo...
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Hba1c = 6.7 (October 2008)
Hba1c = 5.4 (Jan 2009)
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10-31-2008, 12:43 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Boca Raton FL
Posts: 957
| | | Yes it is quite a growing condition.
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"I am not going to bury my son. My son is going to bury me!"
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10-31-2008, 01:41 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: I come from the land down under
Posts: 369
| |  That is truly sad.
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10-31-2008, 06:36 AM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Mt. Dandenong, Victoria, Australia
Posts: 1,721
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Originally Posted by ErikaA  Holy ****.... just asking about my NDSS card (discount card for diabetics and access to various services...) | Note that not many pharmacies take the NDSS card. make sure you find one that does before you try to make a purchase.
i learned this the hard way! 
-- Joel.
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A1c's
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early July 2007: 16.2%; early Sept 2007: 8.0%; early Dec 2007: 5.9%; early Jun 2008: 6.4%; early Apr 2009: 6.4%
triglycerides: 89 (1.0); HDL chol: 50 (1.2); LDL chol: 19.5 (0.5); total cholesterol 87.5
Lantus before bed - 14u; Novorapid for meals (averaging 10-16u per day); Lowish carb diet |
10-31-2008, 06:53 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 4,290
| | That's astounding sadtistic.  Whare's the cure? |
10-31-2008, 12:49 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 5,908
| | | 250 a week, that's astounding !!
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Metformin 500mg twice daily, Enap 5mg
Diagnosed T2 on 26th Nov'07, with BG of 21mmol/L (378mg/dL) and A1c of 11.6%.
Most recent A1c 10/09/09: 6.1%
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10-31-2008, 12:58 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Boca Raton FL
Posts: 957
| | | And that's not even in America!
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"I am not going to bury my son. My son is going to bury me!"
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10-31-2008, 11:55 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 4,290
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Originally Posted by ErikaA Holy ****.... just asking about my NDSS card (discount card for diabetics and access to various services...) and the lady on the phone said that 250 people a week are being diagnosed with diabetes in our state..... | Is that just in Australia? 
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Pardon me for being some what blown away....no wonder it takes 4 months to see an educator and 3 to see an endo...
| Yea. |
11-01-2008, 02:35 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Melbourne
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Originally Posted by ant hill Is that just in Australia? | That's just in Victoria.
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Hba1c = 6.7 (October 2008)
Hba1c = 5.4 (Jan 2009)
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11-01-2008, 04:58 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
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Originally Posted by ErikaA That's just in Victoria. | OMG!!!
Can you emagine what the figure would be like in 2020 and hopefuly sucessfuly cure is available buy then.  |
11-01-2008, 06:37 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK
Posts: 877
| | That’s a crazy statistic . I guess that hopefully means this place will just get busier, education is the only solution at the moment and it’s only partially effective. |
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(7.9mmol/L or 143mg/dl) 
