about 4 years ago
Sarah Henry
said...
A recent study on type 2 diabetes found that intense blood sugar control among folks with heart disease may actually increase the chances of dying from a heart attack. The results from the so-called ACCORD trial might confuse many people with type 2 -- and their caregivers -- who have been encouraged to get blood sugar levels down to keep heart attacks at bay.
So the news got me thinking: Do these kinds of study results that make headlines for a day or two even have any impact on how you care for your parent with diabetes? Do you find these findings useful, puzzling, or completely irrelevant?
I am a type Ii diabetic as is my mom whom I care for. It is beginning to show me how very little they really know about diabetes and effective treatments. The pharmaceutical industry uses us for test monkey's. Look how many meds have been pulled from the marked for liver and kidney damage related to diabetic treatment. Look at Splenda, a great product that was lamented to not increase blood sugars. Any tightly controlled diabetic could tell you otherwise.
A long time ago i heard that if it weren't for diabetics hospitals would be out of business. Is that the same for pharmaceutical companies? It is big business. Just look at the price of test strips and the related medications that are touted to be the newest and best. Byetta has had some major fall backs. Now the new Jenuvia...pharmacist told me the other day for it to be truly effective in assisting the use of lacking enzyme utilization it has to be started early after diagnosis. I am a type 1 1/2 diabetic lacking sufficint enzyme to utilize my insulin. I was diagnosed in 1977 and recently prescribed this medication, a very expensive medication at that I will mention.
I am still glad they are doing the studies but personally I am starting to research who is funding the study before I take the results too seriously. A lot of drug companies are funding a lot of these studies, how can the grant reciepients remain objective when the financials that pay their saleries while they are conducting the study are the very drug manufacturers that are making landmark profits from this disease.
Lipitor was in the news today. Seems the manufacturer has staved of for at least 20 additional months the competitive market of generic drug makers by striking s deal so that the generic manufacturer will only sell in other countries not the USA.... How is this different than price fixing, or monopoly marketering> Bill Gates was sued for less. Yet we who are dependent on the medications and related sundry of supplies to manage this dreaded slow killer are being held hostage in the USA.
My mom was recently diagnosed with a little known diabetic complication called Amyotrophy, it is a muscle wasting disease similar to ALS better know as Lou Gehrigs Disease. She also has dementia. Diabetes attacks every vital organ in the human body. While it rarely kills us, the complication always do.
Just my thoughts,
Pamtime
I am a type Ii diabetic as is my mom whom I care for. It is beginning to show me how very little they really know about diabetes and effective treatments. The pharmaceutical industry uses us for test monkey's. Look how many meds have been pulled from the marked for liver and kidney damage related to diabetic treatment. Look at Splenda, a great product that was lamented to not increase blood sugars. Any tightly controlled diabetic could tell you otherwise.
A long time ago i heard that if it weren't for diabetics hospitals would be out of business. Is that the same for pharmaceutical companies? It is big business. Just look at the price of test strips and the related medications that are touted to be the newest and best. Byetta has had some major fall backs. Now the new Jenuvia...pharmacist told me the other day for it to be truly effective in assisting the use of lacking enzyme utilization it has to be started early after diagnosis. I am a type 1 1/2 diabetic lacking sufficint enzyme to utilize my insulin. I was diagnosed in 1977 and recently prescribed this medication, a very expensive medication at that I will mention.
I am still glad they are doing the studies but personally I am starting to research who is funding the study before I take the results too seriously. A lot of drug companies are funding a lot of these studies, how can the grant reciepients remain objective when the financials that pay their saleries while they are conducting the study are the very drug manufacturers that are making landmark profits from this disease.
Lipitor was in the news today. Seems the manufacturer has staved of for at least 20 additional months the competitive market of generic drug makers by striking s deal so that the generic manufacturer will only sell in other countries not the USA.... How is this different than price fixing, or monopoly marketering> Bill Gates was sued for less. Yet we who are dependent on the medications and related sundry of supplies to manage this dreaded slow killer are being held hostage in the USA.
My mom was recently diagnosed with a little known diabetic complication called Amyotrophy, it is a muscle wasting disease similar to ALS better know as Lou Gehrigs Disease. She also has dementia. Diabetes attacks every vital organ in the human body. While it rarely kills us, the complication always do.
Just my thoughts,
Pamtime
Pamtime,
You're so right that diabetes can affect every organ of the body -- literally from head to toe.
I'm sorry to hear about your mother's multiple medical problems. I'm sure that's very challenging.
You and other readers who have the disease -- or care for someone with the condition -- may find it helpful to know how to stave off common complications by clicking here:
http://www.caring.com/articles/10-chronic-diabetes-complications-you-can-help-your-parent-avoid
Let me know, too, what you'd like to see on the site to help you manage diabetes, which is a pretty complex disease to get a handle on.
Pamtime,
You're so right that diabetes can affect every organ of the body -- literally from head to toe.
I'm sorry to hear about your mother's multiple medical problems. I'm sure that's very challenging.
You and other readers who have the disease -- or care for someone with the condition -- may find it helpful to know how to stave off common complications by clicking here:
http://www.caring.com/articles/10-chronic-diabetes-complications-you-can-help-your-parent-avoid
Let me know, too, what you'd like to see on the site to help you manage diabetes, which is a pretty complex disease to get a handle on.