• Diabetes Connections | Type 1 Diabetes

  • By: Stacey Simms
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Diabetes Connections | Type 1 Diabetes

By: Stacey Simms
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  • The T1D news show you've been waiting for! Long-time broadcaster, blogger and diabetes mom Stacey Simms interviews prominent advocates, authors and speakers. Stacey asks hard questions of healthcare companies and tech developers and brings on "everyday' people living with type 1. Great for parents of T1D kids, adults with type 1 and anyone who loves a person with diabetes.
    Stacey Simms Media 2015-2024
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  • “As active as I want to be” - Dianne Mattiace uses Eversense CGM to thrive with T1D in her 70s

    “As active as I want to be” - Dianne Mattiace uses Eversense CGM to thrive with T1D in her 70s
    Apr 30 2024
    This week, managing type 1 diabetes into your 70s is a bit of uncharted waters.. While thankfully more and more people are living long with T1D, that wasn’t always the case. I’m taking to Dianne Mattiace who is in her early 70s and was diagnosed as an adult, 30 years ago. She was the first person in the US to use the Eversense CGM when it was approved in 2018 and she’s still using it today. She answers your questions about this implantable CGM, why she’s stayed with it and what else she does to manage in retirement and beyond. This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider. More about Eversense here Our previous episodes about Eversense here Find out more about Moms' Night Out Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible! Learn more about Gvoke Glucagon Gvoke HypoPen® (glucagon injection): Glucagon Injection For Very Low Blood Sugar (gvokeglucagon.com) Omnipod - Simplify Life Learn about Dexcom Edgepark Medical Supplies Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures Learn more about AG1 from Athletic Greens Drive research that matters through the T1D Exchange The best way to keep up with Stacey and the show is by signing up for our weekly newsletter: Sign up for our newsletter here Here's where to find us: Facebook (Group) Facebook (Page) Instagram Twitter Check out Stacey's books! Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com Reach out with questions or comments: info@diabetes-connections.com Episode Transcription: Stacey Simms 0:00 Diane Matisse. Thanks so much for joining me. Welcome to Diabetes Connections. It's great to talk to you. Dianne Mattisse 0:04 Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, let's Stacey Simms 0:07 jump right in. Let's start with your diagnosis story, because you were initially misdiagnosed, right? Take me through what happened? Yes, Dianne Mattisse 0:15 I was 40 years old. And my family history was type two diabetes. And they actually, as soon as you say that to a physician, and it was a general practitioner, it was not an endocrinologist, they automatically just put that label on me and said, you know, you're another type two in your family. It went on for about three months. And I actually was in the honeymoon phase, which now was not even recognized back then. But I, it was at the time where you're making enough insulin to keep you from going into DKA into ketoacidosis end up in a hospital, but not enough to make you feel well, so my blood sugar's were still rising, the medication they had me on wasn't working. And finally, after, I think about three or four months, well, during that time, I saw an endocrinologist. And he also was doing a lot of testing, even the C peptide, which is now a diagnosis tool wasn't able to be done where I lived, they had to send it out to a lab in Atlanta. So once that was kind of established, he admitted me, and started me on insulin and, you know, multiple injections per day, Stacey Simms 1:35 why did you What led you to actually seek out an endocrinologist? Dianne Mattisse 1:39 I was not feeling great with the general doctor treating me and I just kept getting worse and worse. And I was taking oral medications, they weren't all these designer meds that they have now for type twos. Back then it was couple pills. So I was I would call them increase the pills. And as I was increasing the pills over the three or four months, so was my blood sugar increasing, and I kept losing weight. And I'm thinking, well, this is a great diet I'm on I was eating better. But my blood sugar's were going into the three hundreds. So finally, I had been in the medical field before that, actually, it was in the medical field at the time, I was a controller for a nursing home company, but it didn't really have access to a lab or anything like that. I was actually the Regional Controller. And I was on the financial side, right? So I actually went to a lab got my blood sugar taken. I didn't even think to buy a meat or anything like that, which I should have, but I did not. And I kept seeing my blood sugar's go up and up and up. And so I finally just on my own said, I'm gonna go to an endocrinologist. And as soon as I went, he told me, I think you're a type two. And type one, I think you are type one, misdiagnosed as a type two. And let's do some testing. He started he did the C peptide, sent it out, did a bunch of other tests. I have no no recollection. Now, it's been 33 years of what else he did. But over that weekend, so that was like a Friday over that weekend, I just be compensated more I started getting muscle cramps, I called him and he said, go to the hospital Monday morning, seven o'clock and bring a bag you're being admitted. So I did. And he said, I was really on the brink of going into diabetic ketoacidosis. So it was really, really just, you know, it's...
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    43 mins
  • In the News... Ingredients linked to T2D, genetic T1D research, new SGLT-2 guidelines and more!

    In the News... Ingredients linked to T2D, genetic T1D research, new SGLT-2 guidelines and more!
    Apr 26 2024

    It’s In the News! A look at the top diabetes stories and headlines happening now. Top stories this week: A new study links emulsifiers, a common ingrediant, to type 2 diabetes, reserachers map out the pancreas in a new way that's already yielding new information, new guidliens about using GLP-1s and SGLT-2 medications with exisiting oral meds, genetic T1D studies and more!

    Find out more about Moms' Night Out

    Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible!

    Learn more about Gvoke Glucagon Gvoke HypoPen® (glucagon injection): Glucagon Injection For Very Low Blood Sugar (gvokeglucagon.com)

    Omnipod - Simplify Life

    Learn about Dexcom

    Edgepark Medical Supplies

    Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures

    Learn more about AG1 from Athletic Greens

    Drive research that matters through the T1D Exchange

    The best way to keep up with Stacey and the show is by signing up for our weekly newsletter:

    Sign up for our newsletter here

    Here's where to find us:

    Facebook (Group)

    Facebook (Page)

    Instagram

    Twitter

    Check out Stacey's books!

    Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com

    Reach out with questions or comments: info@diabetes-connections.com
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    6 mins
  • “How can we continue to move T1D to the background?” Medtronic’s Dr. Jennifer McVean

    “How can we continue to move T1D to the background?” Medtronic’s Dr. Jennifer McVean
    Apr 23 2024

    This week, catching up with Medtronic’s Senior Director of Global Medical Affairs Dr. Jennifer McVean. It’s been one year since the 780G was approved in the US, what does the device – and its seven-day infusion set – look like in the real world. Plus, we have a big discussion about the future of type 1 diabetes – Dr. McVean has lead some significant trials – she lives with type 1 and has some big ideas about changes she’d like to see.

    This podcast is not intended as medical advice. If you have those kinds of questions, please contact your health care provider.

    Find out more about Moms' Night Out

    Please visit our Sponsors & Partners - they help make the show possible!

    Learn more about Gvoke Glucagon Gvoke HypoPen® (glucagon injection): Glucagon Injection For Very Low Blood Sugar (gvokeglucagon.com)

    Omnipod - Simplify Life

    Learn about Dexcom

    Edgepark Medical Supplies

    Check out VIVI Cap to protect your insulin from extreme temperatures

    Learn more about AG1 from Athletic Greens

    Drive research that matters through the T1D Exchange

    The best way to keep up with Stacey and the show is by signing up for our weekly newsletter:

    Sign up for our newsletter here

    Here's where to find us:

    Facebook (Group)

    Facebook (Page)

    Instagram

    Twitter

    Check out Stacey's books!

    Learn more about everything at our home page www.diabetes-connections.com

    Reach out with questions or comments: info@diabetes-connections.com
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    46 mins
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