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03-16-2009, 09:28 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1
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First time doing this. Read about the lick and had to respond. I too prick and lick, not in public. Often wondered if others did it. My 7 year old granddaughter (lives with us) teases that I'm a vampire! My 12 year old step-grandson is very interested because a friend at school has diabetes and he thought that 12 was awfully young. He now knows that it can happen a lot younger than that.  |
03-16-2009, 09:29 AM
|  | Super Moderator
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 11,100
| | Welcome Bonnie! Glad you found the forums. I stick, but don't lick! No vampire leanings here! 
Tell us a litte about yourself and how you manage your diabetes.
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T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Metformin 500 mg twice daily
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 (after dealing with shingles & bronchiti)
2/09: 5.5 |
03-16-2009, 09:53 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Virginia
Posts: 618
| | | Welcome Bonnie. Yes, I am the culprit that started the thread regarding licking. I figured I would be ousted and banned for being so gross; turns out there are a lot of us.
This is a terrific group with an incredible wealth of knowledge.
Welcome to DF!
Russell
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03-16-2009, 10:08 AM
|  | Super Moderator
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 9,671
| | Hi Bonnie! Welcome to Diabetes Forums. I usually don't lick either and definitely not in public. Why does this sound bad? 
__________________  Nancy Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa diagnosed type 1 October 1986
currently using Medtronic MiniMed
paradigm 715 CLEAR  |
03-16-2009, 10:26 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
Posts: 8,702
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Originally Posted by Russell A.  Welcome Bonnie. Yes, I am the culprit that started the thread regarding licking. I figured I would be ousted and banned for being so gross; turns out there are a lot of us.
This is a terrific group with an incredible wealth of knowledge.
Welcome to DF!
Russell | I consider it to be efficient recycling of hemoglobin! (jk; physiologically I am sure it does not maintain high iron stores).
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Linda
Feb 18 A1c 6.1 
Nov 30 A1c (MD office) 5.6%
Jul 09 ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
Mar 10 C-pep 2.8 (20 g carb); GAD 3.2 
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.2
coming soon ... : Levemir We DID NOT eat our way here. |
03-16-2009, 10:33 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 595
| | | Hi, Bonnie - welcome from Texas. I'm a member of the don't lick, but I'm okay if you do club. You have found a great place for support and information (and yes, entertainment if you have a tilted sense of humor)! Tell us more about yourself.
__________________ alura lee Diagnosed T2 July 2008 -- Metformin ER 500 mg/2xdaily Lisinopril, Prilosec, Celexa, Crestor A1c Jul '08 = 6.8/Nov '08 = 6.3/Mar '09 = 5.8/Aug '09 = 5.7 |
03-16-2009, 12:54 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Essex
Posts: 1,406
| | | Hi Bonnie! Hello good evening and welcome, do forgive my ignorance, can't say I'm familiar with your prick and lick method, can you elaborate more? what's the significance in controlling diabetes, seems a little barbaric I'd say.
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DX 8/2004
Current Meds
Metformin 500 mg
Ramipril 5mg
Aspirin 75mg
Simvastatin 20mg
2005/6 Getting my
Head around this
Condition.
07- HbA1C 5.2 ChOL 3.2
08- HbA1C 5.4 ChOL 4.2
09- HbA1C 5.5 CHOL 3.6 LDL 1.9 HDL 2.5
Triglycerides 0.60
Many people will try to tell you what you can’t eat with diabetes.
Most will be well-meaning.
Rather than compounding the problem by telling you what you should
eat, I’d recommend a simpler method, eat by your meter.
Buddy 7 Essex uk |
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