Endocrinology

• Thyroid Patients: Do You Need T3 To Feel Well?

  Found on Thyroid Disease About. Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 7:05pm CEST

  So many thyroid patients contact me here at About, and at my Facebook Thyroid Support page, and ask the same question: "I'm on Synthroid (or another levothyroxine drug like Levoxyl) and I don't feel well. What else can I do?" What I tell fellow thyroid patients is ...

• Symlin Scare

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:00pm CEST

  I hate that title, because it implies that I dislike Symlin.  That's not true.  I like it a lot.  Most of the time.  The few times I don't like it are memorable.  Take this experience from about a month ago. One of Symlin's main jobs is to slow ...

• Attention All Atsy-Fartsies!

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:10am CEST

  Today is Diabetes Art Day. All you have to do (if you want to) is create something artsy-fartsy in the spirit of the day--to reflect, acknowledge and share what diabetes and art means to you and your life. Anything goes. Check out some examples on TuDiabetes and The ...

• Lower Thyroid Activity / Hypothyroidism and Longevity: Another Questionable Thyroid Study Published

  Found on Thyroid Disease About. Posted: September 1st, 2010, 11:11pm CEST

  Good grief, here we go again. Another study has just been published that shows that some people with longevity in their family may have lower thyroid function/higher TSH levels than the average person. Of course, the researchers are not saying that failing to treat an underactive thyroid ...

• Creeping is Caring

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: September 1st, 2010, 4:38pm CEST

  Am I the last person on earth to embrace the wide world of podcasting? I will admit that I did not really "get" it. So what is a podcast? I guess the best way to describe it is that podcasting is to radio what blogging is to magazines and newspapers....

• DArtDay: I didn't do anything

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: September 1st, 2010, 4:00pm CEST

  It's 10:35pm on Tuesday evening; I still don't have anything to produce for DArtDay.  I can't draw, paint or doodle.  I thought about it.  I thought about it some more.  I asked myself, "What bothers me the most about living with diabetes?" I ...

• Diabetes Art Day - The Colors of Diabetes

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: September 1st, 2010, 3:10pm CEST

  (Big huge thanks to Lee Ann at The Butter Compartment for encouraging everyone around the diabetes online community to participate in Diabetes Art Day!  I'm already dreaming of another project myself, how about you?) ...

• A Smarty Smarty

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: September 1st, 2010, 2:00pm CEST

  Today (September 1, 2010) is the first "Diabetes Art Day", a really fun project that Lee Ann (with a little help from Cherise) announced recently.My niece, a creative genius, was over this weekend, and I recruited her to help me.  ...

• Uninsured with Diabetes?

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: August 31st, 2010, 11:31pm CEST

  Having a chronic illness like diabetes demands many things.  We must count carbohydrates, monitor blood sugars, take medication (insulin or pills), become quite close with our medical teams. It is a difficult to balance on a good day.  Diabetes is also very expensive.  Even if you have ...

• Dirty Dancing and Dancing With the Stars' Jennifer Grey is a Thyroid Cancer Survivor

  Found on Thyroid Disease About. Posted: August 31st, 2010, 7:30pm CEST

  Until today, I didn't know that actress Jennifer Grey, beloved for her role as "Baby" alongside Patrick Swayze in the film "Dirty Dancing," was a thyroid cancer survivor. Her two recent thyroid cancer surgeries, however, are mentioned and discussed in a USA Today article today that announces the ...

• The Scale Really Does Mean Nothing

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:42pm CEST

  For the past five years, as I struggled with the ups and downs and all arounds that diabetes brings, I believed daily scale watching held me accountable.  Doing so would keep me in line, would keep me from tipping over into overweight territory, would work in line with my blood ...

• Caring for your plates

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: August 31st, 2010, 3:32am CEST

  Kerri recently posted on the best type of motivation (for people living with diabetes). Which led me to a video from the World Diabetes Day organization that had the terrible tagline shown below. Several of us from the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) pointed ...

• I'm proud of her

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: August 30th, 2010, 4:00pm CEST

  My daughter has asked me to blog about her for a while now but I didn't want too. She is already such a huge part of my diabetes life, I wanted to give her a break from my blog but I had to blog about this...Last week was the ...

• First Meetup - Lessons Learned

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: August 30th, 2010, 3:00am CEST

  Having only one person show up at the first local meetup for younger adults with diabetes (besides me and my husband) could have been disappointing.  Positivity is something I often lack, though not in this case.  To expect a huge turnout for an event only planned two weeks in ...

• Artist Allyson Jones Averell Makes Powerful Statement with Thyroid Body-Painting

  Found on Thyroid Disease About. Posted: August 29th, 2010, 3:00pm CEST

  Talented artist Allyson Jones Averell, who has in the past shared her incredible body painting to highlight thyroid awareneness, has done this powerful new painting that she's sharing on her Facebook page, and which she graciously wanted to share with About.com Thyroid site readers. Says Allyson: ...

• No More Fear, Please.

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: August 26th, 2010, 10:02pm CEST

  The lab slip sat there, untouched.  For days.  For weeks.  For months.  I knew what the results could mean.  Poking my finger several times a week, several times a day.  Taking medications with undesirable side effects, maybe even injecting insulin.  And most of all, being the wife of someone ...

• What Are Your Favorite Thyroid Blogs and Websites?

  Found on Thyroid Disease About. Posted: August 26th, 2010, 9:42pm CEST

  With thousands of websites and blogs related to thyroid disease and health on the web -- and more going online every day -- where do you, as a thyroid patient, go to get your thyroid news, information and support? Which sites do you bookmark, and return to regularly for ...

• Diabetes Art Day!

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: August 26th, 2010, 4:50am CEST

  I want to spread the word about Diabetes Art Day (September 1), a very fun idea by a super special person.Lee Ann Thill is an art therapist and a person living with diabetes.  ...

• Tiniboy Lancets Review

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: August 26th, 2010, 4:49am CEST

  I visited the Tiniboy Lancet booth at the Children With Diabetes conference and was amazed at how small these lancets looked. In fact, they were so fine and so short that even with my reading glasses I really had trouble seeing them. Full disclosure: at my request, Tiniboy sent ...

• I told you so AND a fun new project

  Found on Diabetes Daily. Posted: August 25th, 2010, 3:45pm CEST

  I had my quarterly endocrinologist appointment this morning. You know when you have those mornings when nothing goes right, this wasn't one of them! :)First of all, this is the entrance to the building where my doctor is located. It's pretty ridiculous! You have to check in before you ...