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As of June 1, 2008, the ability to post new comments at the Discussion Forums at Diabetes.Blog.com has been disabled. The old comments will remain available for you to read.

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1. Actos and Avandia
2. Byetta (Also, please see a separate list of previous Byetta Discussion Forums: click here.)
3. Cholesterol, triglycerides, lipids
4. Complications: heart
5. Complications: skin
6. Exercise
7. Exubera (Inhaled Insulin)
8. Eye disease
9. Feedback about the Diabetes Monitor
10. Flying with Byetta and other medications during times of new security restrictions
11. Fundraising for diabetes
12. Good Ol’ Daze
13. Greetings – Best Wishes – Other Personal Comments
14. Greetings – Best Wishes – Other Personal Comments (this forum is now closed to additional comments)
15. Hassles and Headaches of living with diabetes
16. Have you quit smoking?
17. How did you find out you have diabetes?
18. Januvia
19. Jokes and other humor
20. Lantus
21. Levemir
22. Meals, eating and nutrition
23. Meals, eating and nutrition (this forum is now closed to additional comments)
24. Metermania
25. Metformin
    
26. Metformin (this forum is now closed to additional comments)
27. Neuropathy
    
28. New to diabetes
    
29. New to diabetes (this forum is now closed to additional comments)
    
30. Odds’n'Ends
    
31. Odds’n'Ends (this forum is now closed to additional comments)
32. Other medications
33. Paying for diabetes
34. PCOS
35. Pets with diabetes
36. Pumps & pumping
37. PWD living with kids & teens
38. Recipe Swap
39. Research about meds
40. Scientific Stuff
41. Spreadsheets
42. Suggestions for Improvements at Diabetes.Blog.com
    
43. Symlin (Also, please see a separate list of previous Symlin Discussion Forums, below.)
44. Thyroid disorders
45. Traveling with diabetes
46. Weight loss tips for people with diabetes
47. Who and where are you?

Previous Symlin Discussion Forums (now closed to additional comments):

1. Symlin 1: till mid-Sep 2005
2. Symlin 2: Sep/Oct 2005
3. Symlin 3: Oct/Nov 2005
4. Symlin 4: Nov/Dec 2005
5. Symlin 5: Dec/Jan 2006
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The search feature is updated every night, so very recent comments may not be available in the search feature.

You can also search at DiabetesMonitor.com and at Dr. Bill’s Blog from the same webpage.

Also, I’ve posted instructions on how to enter comments on a separate page: Click here for instructions. I’ve also posted Ground Rules for entering comments at these Discussion Forums.

Bill the diabetesdoc

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Diabetes.Blog.Com is a blogcompanion to our main website, the Diabetes Monitor, which you can find at http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/

Well, the simple answer is “almost nothing.” Roughly 1 out of 20 mentioned either “Internet” or “Websites” in their indices. And only one had a substantive discussion instead of a list. And the substantive discussion basically said “there is an Internet with Websites. Don’t trust the information you find on the ‘net.”

As if you could trust the information you find in books…

Bill the diabetesdoc
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Diabetes.Blog.Com is a blogcompanion to our main website, the Diabetes Monitor, which you can find at http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/
 

Maybe I’m just in a bad mood, but I gotta vent about an absolutely terrible article in the December 2005 Diabetes Forecast (a newsmagazine from the American Diabetes Association). Splashed across the cover of the magazine was a huge blurb for a story about “The Best Diabetes Information On The Web.” The title was misleading — the story was not about where good information could be found (other than tooting their own horn, and mentioning a few of the top-notch US government websites). And the story never mentioned other diabetes organizations, whether their “competitors” (such as the JDRF) or those in other countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, among others, as well as the IDF.

The article clearly was aimed at newbies, but neglected to tell them about the HONcode (sponsored by the Health On the Net Foundation) as a reliable indicator of which health-related websites voluntarily pledge to honor the 8 principles of the HON Code of Conduct (HONcode). BTW, the ADA site doesn’t display the HONcode logo.

Also, the article never mentions search engines…

Bill the diabetesdoc
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Diabetes.Blog.Com is a blogcompanion to our main website, the Diabetes Monitor, which you can find at www.DiabetesMonitor.com

I have added a new search feature for searching the contents of Diabetes.Blog.com, after I realized that the built-in search feature can’t search the comments that folks have posted.

I found that Google catalogs everything at the blog — comments and all. So I set up several site-specific Google searches for Diabetes.Blog.com, which are now located at our main website, at www.diabetesmonitor.com/searchdbc.htm

This “advanced search” feature is available at all times from the choices on the right side of this blog, where it is identified as “Advanced Search of Diabetes.Blog.com at DiabetesMonitor”.

Bill the diabetesdoc

At the Diabetes Monitor today: Diabetes & me – learn about diabetes.

We are attending the American Diabetes Association’s Annual Scientific Sessions in San Diego this week, and will have daily reports at the Diabetes Monitor of selected sessions and activities.

Many thanks in advance to Amy Tenderich for sharing her thoughts and insights about the meeting with our readers.

At the Diabetes Monitor today: weight and waist measurement: tools for adults

Recently, I received a request from a new reader for clarification of etiquette for commenting at Diabetes.Blog.com. Looking around the Internet, there are lots of discussions about etiquette for writing blogs, but relatively few about writing comments (one is at cafe mamma).

So here goes with some thoughts if you want to add comments at Diabetes.Blog.com:

1. Verify which Discussion Forum you are at before posting comments. You can verify you’re in the correct one by looking at the very top of your webbrowser, where it displays something like “Diabetes.Blog.com :: NAME OF FORUM”.
   

   There’s a list of current Discussion Forums at Box 8 on the right-side sidebar of every page. There’s also a complete list of forums (called List of all Discussion Forums) which again is listed at Box 8 on the sidebar.

   If you put a comment at the wrong Discussion Forum, I may delete it, or may add my own comment to your comment, saying that it’s posted in the wrong place. If I delete your comment, and if l’m in a good mood, I’ll notify you by e-mail and ask that you add your comment at another forum.

2. If you want to continue a discussion that you know is off-topic at a different Discussion Forum, it’s okay to put a brief note telling folks where the followup will be found. Example: If someone mentions a problem with meal plans at one of our medications forums, you can alert them (and everyone) that you will add a followup comment at Meals/Eating/Nutrition
3. If you want to send me a private message, please don’t post it on the blog, as I’ll have to delete it. Instead, e-mail me. My e-mail address is near the bottom of the introduction to every Discussion Forum, as part of my signature:
4. 
   Bill the diabetesdoc
   info@diabetesmonitor.com

   If you click on my e-mail address, your computer will open your e-mail program and insert my e-mail address automatically.

5. If it appears to me or others that all you are doing is writing propaganda about a product, I’ll delete your comment without warning. Especially if you have the gall to add a hyperlink to your product.
6. Please understand that I will be ruthless about deleting off-topic comments, to make it easier for people to follow the main topic of that Discussion Forum without the distraction of off-topic comments.

Hope this helps!

Bill the diabetesdoc
info@diabetesmonitor.com

Diabetes.Blog.Com is a blogcompanion to our main website, the Diabetes Monitor, which you can find at http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/

This website has evolved since it started in May 2005, and the readers and me have gradually developed our own jargon that may or may not exist anywhere else in the world (but probably doesn’t!).

Examples of our BlogJargon follow; if you have another good one, please add your comment below, and I’ll put it into this master list for newcomers to learn (and to laugh along with us!)

1. Blogquake: What happens when the software underlying this blog becomes unstable and shakes everybody up! You can read about one recent major blogquake and how it affected our readers: CLICK HERE.
2. Discussion Forums: My term for the postings at Diabetes.Blog.com, which invite people to comment about a designated subject. Off-topic comments are sometimes tolerated, but usually deleted (depending on my whim — after all, it’s my blog!)
3. Hug Island: The Discussion Forum for Greetings, Best Wishes, and Other Personal Comments: CLICK HERE.
4. Islands: Readers’ term for the postings at Diabetes.Blog.com (see “Discussion Forums”)
5. Readers have invented all sorts of new terms concerning the new diabetes drug Byetta: “lizard spit”, “gillyspitkins”, “lizard of Az”, “yellow spit road”, “little brother” and “big brother”, and lots more. I’ll await reader definitions for each of these and add them here as I get them… And if anyone can remember when a term was first used, let me know, and I’ll live link to the earliest reference.
   

Remember, you can search for information throughout Diabetes.Blog.com, by using your webbrowser’s FIND or SEARCH feature while at the earlier forums, or by searching at the advanced search feature that is at the Diabetes Monitor.

Please review and follow our usual ground rules, at Ground Rules. (To share your thoughts, use the “Comments” link immediately below. Instructions for entering comments may be found at How to Enter Comments.)

Bill the diabetesdoc
info@diabetesmonitor.com

Diabetes.Blog.Com is a blogcompanion to our main website, the Diabetes Monitor, which you can find at http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/