Consumer Guide Charts
Here is a list of the charts that accompany the annual Diabetes Forecast Consumer Guide. Each chart has information about products available to people with diabetes. While the charts on medications are updated as new products become available, the others are only updated each January.
Devices
Medications
Insulins Used in the United States
Oral Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes
Injected Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes
Other
Comments
Comments are subject to review and will not be posted immediately. If you have an urgent medical question, please consult a health care professional. If you have a question for the staff of Diabetes Forecast, please send it to Mailcall@diabetes.org.Question: Do I have Diabetes?
I check my blood sugar each morning immediately on getting out of bed, before having anything to eat or drink, and I've done this now for the past 3 weeks. The count shows for the lowest 103 and the highest has been 130. Am I a diabetic? I hope not but I must get diagnosed if you believe that I do have the dreadful disease. Please let me know.
Do I have Diabetes?
Diabetes is pretty easy to check. The test will probably include a fasting lab results.
Contrary to common belief, you don't have to be overweight, unexercising, bad diet, human to get Type II diabetes. I am fit; eat a healthy balanced diet and do very high levels exercise regularly.
Check knowing the problem is half the solution.
stop being a paranoid
Those levels are normal and okay. Signs of diabetes are: rapid weight gain or loss, changes in vision, frequent urination, weak bladder. You're healthy.
Computer downloads
I would like for glucose meter companies to make meters that are compatible with Macintosh computers so I can download my meter data.
Glucometer Chart is Mostly
Glucometer Chart is Mostly Useless: In choosing a glucometer, I want to know not just the sample size but also its relative accuracy, whether or not it has a data port -- also whether or not the data cable is included (and where do I obtain it if it is not), what software it is compatible with (and what that software does), with what operating systems (and hardware) the meter's data connection and software are compatible, whether or not the device is Microsoft HealthVault-compatible, and -- last but HARDLY least -- what the strips cost and how easy (or difficult) it is to obtain them (both in local pharmacies and by mail- or Internet-order).
Accuracy?
I have been very very disappointed with all of the articles on this website that I have read so far concerning glucose meters. Almost every article is all about bells and whistles. Not a single one has addressed meter accuracy as a primary reason to purchasing a specific meter. What I want is a meter that reads accurately each and every time. Something better then a meter that may read 130. Where in reality my glucose level could be as low as 104, (OK!), or up towards 156, (I better be doing something different!)
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