Diabetes & Byetta

People with type 2 diabetes may go a long way in managing their condition if
they take up regular exercise, a new research review shows.

Researchers found that when they combined the results from 103 studies,
there was clear evidence that lifestyle changes helped people with type 2
diabetes gain better control over their blood sugar.

But while diet, exercise and medication are all vital to diabetes
management, exercise alone was effective in these studies.

In fact, the review found, studies that focused only on boosting exercise
levels yielded greater benefits than those that tried to change patients’
diets, exercise habits and medication adherence all at once.

The findings "could mean that it is easier for people to focus on one thing
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Once you get through the advertisement, the video on Exercise and Fat
Metabolism is very interesting.:

source: Health and Science Editor

*Key to a long life — less insulin in the brain*

Good, old-fashioned diet and exercise might keep you young by reducing the
action of insulin in the brain, researchers reported on Thursday.

They created mutant mice that over-ate, got fat and even had symptoms of
diabetes, and yet lived 18 percent longer than normal lab mice. The secret:
they lacked a certain key gene that affects insulin, the hormone that
regulates glucose.

The genetic engineering mimicked the effects of eating less and exercising,
the researchers report in the journal Science.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research indicates that both
insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes and non-insulin-dependent (type 2)
diabetes is associated with substantially increased risks of stroke overall,
and most subtypes of stroke.

Strokes occur when the blood flow to the brain stops, causing brain cells to
begin dying within minutes. There are two types of strokes. The most
frequent kind is called ischemic stroke and is triggered by a blood clot
that blocks a blood vessel in the brain. Hemorrhagic stroke is triggered
when a blood vessel breaks and bleeds into the brain.

"Our study indicates that women with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes
mellitus are at increased risk for ischemic stroke, and type 1 diabetes
mellitus is associated with excess risk of hemorrhagic stroke," Dr. Mohsen
Janghorbani, lead author of the new research, told Reuters Health.
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source: ADA Newsletter

Study: Older Diabetes Drugs Safe to Use

Older, cheaper diabetes drugs are as safe and effective as newer ones,
concludes an analysis that is good news for diabetics and may further hurt
sales of Avandia, a blockbuster pill recently tied to heart problems.

The clear winner: metformin, sold as Glucophage and generically for about
$100 a year. It works as well as other diabetes pills but does not cause
weight gain or too-low blood sugar, the analysis found. It also lowers LDL
or bad cholesterol.

"It looks to be the safest," said Dr. Shari Bolen, a Johns Hopkins
University researcher who led the review, which was published online Monday
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Just wanted to share my story about Byetta with those who have stopped losing
weight or those who no longer seem to be getting the "full" feeling from Byetta.

7 months ago, after taking Byetta for about 6 months, I began to crave food
again. This was after a loss of 40 pounds. Not because I ate less. I had been
on a 9 to 10 carb serving a day food plan for at least 2 years before Byetta.
Most of the time I was able to follow this way of eating, but it had been so
hard. Visions of food kept dancing through my head constantly. <grin. With the
Byetta those visions just seemed to dissapear for those 6 months.

Needless to say I was so upset when this happened. I didn’t gain weight, but I
always thought I was hungry and had started eating a "little bite" of things
that weren’t on my meal plan. I kept saying to myself why in the world am I
taking another 2 shots of something each day when it’s not doing a thing and I
want more to eat all of the time anyway. Then I would remind myself that my A1c
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Hello all. This is my first time actually doing a post to this site.
I was diagnosed with mild diabetes (doctor’s words, not mine), if there
is such a thing, back in October 2006 while in the hospital with
asthma. I’m not new to diabetes in the sense that my mother has it as
well. I started on the Byetta back in April of this year. Before that
I was doing diet and exercise. My A1C improved with just those two
things but I wanted extra help after seeing the wonderful things this
drug has done for my mother. Does anyone notice that the Byetta seems
to be watered down? My mother seems to think it’s because of the great
demand for it. The appetite suppression factor seems to wane at
times. What has been your experiences?

Hi,

I started 3 months ago and had no problems giving myself my shot.

Then 3 weeks ago I came off cymbalta, was having terrible side effects
and i have to say the withdrawal symptoms are worse.

That’s when i stopped being able to give myself the shots. i think
it’s from the withdrawal, making me have panic issues/fear of needle.
i can eventually do it, sometimes it takes me as much as 15-20 to get
up the nerve. now my husband is giving it to me sometimes just to
make it easier on me.

my doc and i are going to talk when i go back next week if i’m still
having issues. for the most part it doesn’t hurt, although when i
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I am looking for an attractive case to carry my pen and needles in. I don’t
want anything huge. Basically something I can throw down into my purse or bag
would be great.

Also, I will be travelling by plane in a couple of months, and I am wondering
if anyone has had issue with getting their pen, and needles through TSA
security??

Thanks!

Stacy in Indiana

New Type 1 Diabetes Gene Found In Children
A team of scientists in the US and Canada have discovered a gene variant
that is thought to increase a child’s risk for type 1 diabetes. The study is
published in the advanced online publication of the journal *Nature*.

Type 1 diabetes used to be called juvenile diabetes because it mostly begins
in childhood. It’s an autoimmune disease where the immune system destroys
the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. Type 1 is fatal unless
patients get frequent doses of insulin by injection to keep the body’s blood
sugar under control.

More and more scientists are investigating the genetics of type 1 diabetes
and the hope is this will lead to ways of preventing and treating the
disease.

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