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02-25-2008, 08:40 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: San Antonio TX
Posts: 1
| | | Another Newbie here! I just wanted to say hello to everyone and looking foward to meeting you and finding new ways to control my T2D and getting in shape.  | 
02-25-2008, 08:47 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,523
| | Welcome to the forum 
__________________ Michael Pollan on CBC In Defense of Food with Michael Pollan T1 1975, MM 722 pump
A1C 7/08 5.9%
HDL - 1.55 (59.9)
LDL - 1.76 (68.1)
Triglicerides - 0.44 (40.0)
Called John, plus many other things
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John's Troll Meter - current level: Iffy, iffy | 
02-25-2008, 08:53 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Hastings Melbourne Australia
Posts: 2,686
| | Hey welcome to this great site. 
__________________ We inject to stay alive!!! So that i can enjoy what you enjoy!!!  A1C for July '08 5.9 MMOL/L
Peter... Insulins Novorapid and Levemir. 
So I am well armed to enjoy food of any kind!!! | 
02-25-2008, 08:59 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: montreal
Posts: 285
| | | Welcome to the group and you will find a lot of answers here or fun .A place to talk .Bye Ricky
__________________  Hi my name is Richard for short Ricky .I'm from Montreal Canada .Diabetic since 1993.
Medication:humolog/humulin N/Metformin/Glyburide.
Also PARKINSON disease since 2005. To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
French realist novelist (1821 - 1880) [
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02-26-2008, 02:46 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Spotsylvania, VA (USA)
Posts: 1,233
| | Hi and welcome here from Virginia
You will find a lot of nice people and good advice here 
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02-26-2008, 03:40 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Posts: 592
| | | Hello and welcome.
Mark
__________________ Dx May 2007
A1C @ Dx = 7.0
9/15/07 = 5.1 (Biosafe home test kit)
10/9/07 = 5.4
1/18/08 = 5.4
6/11/08 = 5.3
No meds - just diet and exercise | 
02-26-2008, 05:26 AM
|  | Super Moderator
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 6,218
| | | Welcome Sean! Tell us a little more about yourself and how you manage your diabetes.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis) | 
02-26-2008, 08:52 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
Posts: 1,140
| | | Welcome to the club!
You have a great diabetes center in San Antonio with lots of research and opportunities to try the latest "stuff" going on there. I can't remember the center's name - old age has some effect - but someone will probably know it if you don't!
Mike
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Type 1 since '88
Pumping since 2002 | 
02-27-2008, 06:02 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 4,540
| | | HI Sean & Welcome to this great forum!
Karen | 
02-27-2008, 07:14 AM
| | Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: South River, NJ
Posts: 121
| | | Welcome to the forum and our little community.
-Jade
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Diagnosed 11/16/2007 - Hospitalized with severe DKA.
11/16/2007 A1C - 12.8 
01/16/2008 A1C - 7.5
Pumping with Minimed 722 and CGMS since 2/26/2008.
Previously used Novolog in Flexpen and Lantus in Solostar Pen.
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