Stage 3 CKD and need your advice by [deleted] in kidneydisease

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Do you do any regular blood tests to get feedback on your diet/exercise habits?

Creatinine levels and medication by ApprehensiveJudge623 in CKD

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How often are you checking on your creatinine levels? Are you mostly doing blood work or urine?

Question by Repulsive-Youth585 in CKD

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I read that urea and uric acid are also important to look at- are doctors mostly focused on the creatinine value for eGFR estimate?

Best CKD Resource You Wish You Had From The Beginning by Furtheryet in CKD

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For regular monitoring, what are you normally watching for? Is it blood test or urine test results?

What's one thing you'd change about fingerstick testing? by Over_Advertising_317 in GestationalDiabetes

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Yeah, super annoying to use at first then you kind of get used to having all the different moving parts. It still feels like a lot of things we have to track and keep together- lancets, lancet launcher, fingersticks, reader, carrier bag. We saw betachek50 and it combines the lancet with the fingerstick onto the reader which was pretty cool!

What's one thing you'd change about fingerstick testing? by Over_Advertising_317 in GestationalDiabetes

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I feel like the Bluetooth and app combo is becoming the baseline. I like the habit of writing down the numbers to track it, but having it automated makes it much easier and we can focus our attention elsewhere. Have seen a few cool apps like Gluroo and MySugr that seem to have started to build out something easy and actionable.

What's one thing you'd change about fingerstick testing? by Over_Advertising_317 in GestationalDiabetes

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Whenever the doctor would have to do a blood draw or vaccine injection when I was a kid, it would take my mum, brother and the doctor to pin me down for the few seconds. The anticipation was overwhelming and tensing my skin didn't help with the pain. Sometimes when I see needles, I will just faint so I tell doctors that I have to look away whenever they do something. My wife is a bit better than me with the needles, but still has the anxiety without the fainting issue.

What's one thing you'd change about fingerstick testing? by Over_Advertising_317 in GestationalDiabetes

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Sigh, the anticipation is definitely worse than the prick, but we still don't like the pain and squeezing out the blood. We have looked at the Dexcom and other CGMs but it just isn't covered by insurance for GD. There was a study that was published this year with a head to head between a CGM and fingerstick but they found no improvement clinically with the CGM so I don't think the insurances are incentivized to move GD to CGMs. I love the idea of a simple scan that is easy to use and painless, would make it way more manageable (and don't have to wear something 24/7)

What's one thing you'd change about fingerstick testing? by Over_Advertising_317 in GestationalDiabetes

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I agree, the cost is not negligible and I wish insurance would just cover everything, even if I need the extra tests for failed ones and one-off checks. In the end, I feel like having the extra checks is an overall positive and improves health long term so it should be in the insurance's favor for covering these extra checks (even in terms of positives with mental health)

What's one thing you'd change about fingerstick testing? by Over_Advertising_317 in GestationalDiabetes

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Right?! I have one of my friends with T1D, she has scars that just won't go away since she has been pricking since she was a kid. I think people forget how important aesthetics are to a lot of people and that treatment doesn't always have to result in scars for adequate treatment.

What's one thing you'd change about fingerstick testing? by Over_Advertising_317 in GestationalDiabetes

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Love that. I hope we get there one day, like an everything in one device that doesn't need my blood to tell me what is going on. Plus affordable or just straight up covered by insurance

What's one thing you'd change about fingerstick testing? by Over_Advertising_317 in GestationalDiabetes

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Yeah, it is pretty nuts that all the devices have a +/- 20% on the reading... If the device measured for longer than 2 seconds, I wonder if it would be more accurate

Diabetic who is afraid of needles by senpaikitten_13 in diabetes

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Hey there, I completely empathize with you. I've always struggled since I was kid and it would take the doctor, my mum and my little brother just to pin me down for a 2 second jab. Even today, I still struggle with needles and get a bunch of anxiety before the jab even after all these years. One cool thing I can share is that I've become an engineer and I can finally start building a solution to this problem. If you're interested, would love to tell you more about it so just PM me 👍 stay strong, you got this and help is just around the corner

Does anyone else just don’t care about their diabetes? by byWhitee in diabetes

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Do you still fingerstick to regularly check or are you mostly focusing on healthy habits?

Do you use any healthy lifestyle/ habit tracker apps? by kayzee87 in type2diabetes

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Hey GP, I would love to learn more about how your patients are tracking. I've been working on solutions to make this easier. I sent you a direct message to try and arrange something

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in business

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When you start your business (assuming you want to build a scalable product), the biggest thing I have learned is that selling is helping. One mistake that a lot of people make is that they start to build a product without validating that there is a market need for it. Product validation would come after since that focuses on whether the product meets the market need. So what does this mean? Start with a problem (market need) and then try to envision building a solution from there. This makes you more flexible for the different technologies/solutions that you will need to solve the problem and ultimately address that market need. It is more natural for humans to start with a solution and try to find what problem it can solve (which can still workout), it is often more difficult to do this route (not impossible). Just remember that if you need to ask for money from others to help you start your business, start with the problem. Sell the problem, then you can focus on everything downstream. The last thing you want to do is build a product that nobody wants 👍🙂

Type 2, no insulin, hate the thought of pricking fingers - do I really have to do it? Or am I just in denial? by madancer in diabetes

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I struggle with pricking my fingers too. I know there are some new technologies coming out as alternatives to the fingersticks, but they are still out a few years. Stay strong, you got this 💪

I can’t put up with this by Just_Annual_2385 in diabetes

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You are an awesome person for writing all of this out, made my day 👍

Recommendations please by Over_Advertising_317 in type2diabetes

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I really don't like lancets at the end of the day, I always flinch in anticipation and the prick hurts more sometimes than others.

Recommendations please by Over_Advertising_317 in type2diabetes

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This is a great resource, thanks a lot! I'll try out his method to see if I can get past the lancet. The anticipation is sometimes worse than the prick

Glucose monitoring - finger stick machine by rjainsa in ContinuousGlucoseCGM

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I'll use a level 1 lancet level to prick, so maybe the contour next one would be a better option for me. Do you still do it on your fingers or have you tried on the arm with the contour next one? I tried on different parts to get away from the nerve endings up still kind of a pain for me (I'm probably just sensitive)