http://www.clickindia.com/sports-health-beauty/

Thanks again for a great summary.

Did you get very ill beforehand that prompted you to go a doctor?

Ho Are you sure it's type 1 and not type 2 - you certainly want to find out ASAP?

I am sorry about the Dx you received: I hope you find all the sites you mentioned useful in the process of embracing this new phase you are entering. It can be daunting at first, that is why TuDiabetes exists in part: to help you deal with it without feeling alone. Because, as you well pointed out: it's hardly a problem you only have. There's well over 240 million of us.

If you ever want to chat about anything diabetes, besides the site(s), you can always drop me a line to manny at tudiabetes DOT org.

Take care,

P.S. @ Dave Briggs, from the U.K. - you should def. check out TuDiabetes.com. We have a large number of our members from the U.K. After U.S. and Canada, is the third country from where we receive the most visits (about 2,000 per month by now).

Check out www.DiabetesControlForLife.com.

My team at Bridge Worldwide launched this diabetes management toolsite for one of our clients (Abbott Nutrition). It includes some nutritional/lifestyle tools, menu planners, fitness tools, basic diabetes info, etc...it actually helps people control their diabetes.

Hope this helps.

In your search engines section you might like to add the Diabetes Search Engine that I've setup using Google custom search engine facilities. It's available at http://bernardfarrell.com/dse.html, or you can add it to your blog or page from here: http://tinyurl.com/287x3m.

I initially created it for myself, and I continue to add diabetes sites and blogs to it. I donate the (small) advertising revenue from it to diabetes research.

You may also be interested in the Diabetes Online Community list of diabetes blogs that's available at http://diabetesoc.blogspot.com/.

There's are several diabetes related groups on Yahoo!, including DiabetesCGMS (http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/diabetescgms/) that's got lots of useful information on continuous glucose monitors.

- AmyT
www.diabetesmine.com

Well there's plenty of us here for support and info.

good luck man.

As an editor and columnist for dLife.com, as well as a diabetes blogger at www.sixuntilme.com, I feel that the value of online diabetes support is tremendous. I've been living with type 1 diabetes since I was six years old, so I understand how much community matters.

All the best,
Kerri

www.sixuntilme.com
www.dlife.com

Since you're newly diagnosed, I think you'll find the available information more than enough, perhaps a bit overwhelming. It's all about learning now. However, that stage soon passes, and eventually you'll pretty much know everything there is to know, it will come down to easily facilitating your daily monitoring, self-management and communicating with your physician.

This is the area where I am quite disappointed, having researched a lot of sites for my Dad last year.

My impression is that most monotoring/tracking sites are created by IT types, who probably are not diabetic patients themselves, or don't have one in the family.
An extreme example: Microsoft's HealthVault, which is so complex that you really have to be a hacker/geek type to even navigate it eventually lands me at a site where I can enter glucose results but can't even label them as fasting, after breakfast ..etc. Utter nonsense, they clearly have no clue about diabetes!
Other sites are not this bad, but they typically don't provide enough charting options, don't calculate the right averages ..etc. Worst of all: they don't think of the reality of just how much time your physician can spend with you: i.e. requiring the physician to register with the service, sign-in every time to see your results .etc. Think of how many different sites the doc would have to sign in to. What most is these services miss is providing a simple overview print /pdf to be emailed or shown to the doc.

I think the sites not done by "IT Only" types but diabetic patients or their famiily/friends are better, at least they are painfully aware of the daily routine. On the other hand, thse sites may be limited by the creator's bery personal experience and are not catering for a wide range of patients.

Sugartats is a very good example. I think it will serve you very well, bing a Type I yo need to record multiple measurements a day, it also helps recording your meal intake, exercise, etc. It totally fails my Dad, who is a type II, only needs to check his glucose level 1-2 days a week, perfected his diet to the point he no longer needs to bother about it: the Sugartats graphs are totally unreadable, they assume you use them every day, end drop to zero level any day data is missing. After looking at dozens of services (including the one at #8 above, just now), I haven't found one that works for the very simple task of recording his data, defining what to chart and calculate certain averages. I ended up doing my own custom Zoho Sheet and emailing the URL to his doc periodically.

Btw, the same goes for blood pressure tracking, which, again, should be a very simple task.

To answer a couple of the questions, yes I was feeling unwell and that prompted a visit to my GP, who took blood tests, and that determined it was diabetes. It is probably type 1, but there are more tests to do to confirm.

http://www.adaptivepath.com/charmr

Good luck in you or your spouse getting a job in a big company, they will find someone more qualified after they see your risk.

My wife has the same condition when she was pregnant 23 years ago. Only when she is pregnant. Despite the fact that she is too old to get pregnant now and had her tube ties. No-one will insure her. For a while I could get insurance for her, but it was $3,000 a month. Thanks, BCBS of TN.

You have a good chance of being the 35 million who cannot get insurance in the USA. Sorry for the extra bad news.

Adult Type II:
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/show/161

Type I (manned by the JDRF juvenile diabetes research foundation docs):
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/diabetes/index.htm

and an unmoderated patient-to-patient forum:
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Diabetes-Support/wwwboard.html

I'm a practicing physician who answers questions there as an employee of MedHelp

Type 2 diabetes is completely and easily curable through diet alone. Type 1 diabetes is caused by cow's milk protein, is not curable, but much can be done to control it through diet. See the work of Joel Fuhrman, MD and John McDougall, MD.

Also, in regards to the above poster: Type 1 diabetes is NOT caused by cow's milk protein. I'm not sure where you got that ridiculous idea. Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body attacking its own insulin-producing cells. All the websites mentioned above will tell you that.

My uncle died piece by piece via foot and leg
amputations of both legs.

My uncle in the 60's and my mother in the 90's.

I have it as well and because of this I too
started a blog/website all about feet and is
becoming very popular.

In addition to foot related injuries it covers
the diabetic foot as well, with numerous pictures
and explanations about diabetes and how it affects
the feet.

Your article AND blog are excellent. Keep up the
outstanding work.

The Footologist Recommends...
Larry Parsons

Comment #27 is indeed ridiculous. I made the mistake of clicking thru to the digg page yesterday for this post and read two similarly insulting and unintelligent comments - one even had the audacity (a.k.a. idiocy) to suggest they knew more about my diagnosis than my doctors! So there are lots of people out there who haven't read this post in its true context and presume to think they know more about me than my doctors.

I am glad to see though that almost all the comments here on this post are intelligent and helpful! :-)

Now that's Old School!

http://mayoclinic.com/health/type-1-diabetes/DS00329/DSECTION=1

www.diabetestalkfest.com

~ Good luck, Gina

Though its a bummer to hear you were just diagnosed, I know you'll find some great support and information (as you have in this post).

As others have said keep a good eye on and watch your diet ( Know Type 2's who have completely removed themselves from medication after going on a Natural Raw Foods diet and hear about it more daily. You should check out the Raw for 30 days movie trailer, its also being reviewed for Sun Dance).

Being a Type 1 for 15 years myself, in the past month I've gone on a 60% (will be moving towards 100%) Raw food diet and have had to reduce my insulin by more than 50% because my glucose stabilized tremendously.

And as you might know be now keeping tracking your stats is very important as well (thanks for the SugarStats mention BTW).

Best of luck with everything Richard!

--
Be Well,
Marston A, SugarStats

That's also where I met Amy Tenderich, and became her biggest fan. So far as I can tell, she is the leading voice on the subject. Take her up on her offer to help. You'll be glad you did.

http://tinyurl.com/2mta59

80/10/10 Diet, discusses diabetes and a simple solution.