I'm always amused at scientific attempts to study the effect of exercise in #type1diabetes . I'm n=1 and all I do is walk, yet my blood sugar might go up, down, or stay the same depending on food, time of day, insulin on board, and phase of the moon. 🚶♀️🌚
Miriam E. Tucker
@MiriamETucker
Writer/journalist specializing in medicine/health. Living with type 1 diabetes since 1973.
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Why would people with private #HealthInsurance still need to ration #insulin ? "It's a complicated system." - #diabetes #type1diabetes
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1.3 million Americans with diabetes ration #insulin in the past year due to astronomical costs, study finds ms.spr.ly/6017dTk0X
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Fascinating. I’m curious whether a) people with #diabetes are more likely to be bitten by mosquitos and b) do those odds vary with the person’s blood sugar level? This topic has actually come up in #type1diabetes circles.
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Some people really do get more mosquito bites, and it doesn't have to do with diet, soaps, or other fragrances. It's carboxylic acids. And once a mosquito magnet, always a mosquito magnet scientificamerican.com/article/some-p by @dalorleon on @sciam
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"A long-hidden disease is pulled from the shadows by its cousin, long COVID"
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Sorry, not this Wed. The 26th.
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This Wed, @HBO will air a documentary about the 2018 #TreeOfLife shooting that took the life of my mother's dear friend Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz and 10 others. It will feature survivors including hospice nurse/chaplain Dan Leger. Produced by @mcuban @theebillyporter @MichaelKeaton twitter.com/HBODocs/status…
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This Wed, will air a documentary about the 2018 #TreeOfLife shooting that took the life of my mother's dear friend Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz and 10 others. It will feature survivors including hospice nurse/chaplain Dan Leger. Produced by
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A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting recounts the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history and the community that came together in its aftermath. #ATreeofLifeDoc premieres October 26 on @HBOMax. #HBO50
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"It’s important that disabled reviewers are not solely commissioned to review books about disability, so that disabled critics are not ghettoised and confined to just discussing disability issues."
Read 's call for more disabled reviewers: buff.ly/3MvK2dL
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Shoutout to all the humans who look out over a crowded room, find the one person wearing a mask, and call THEM the sheep.
Humans are amazing.
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The “hygiene hypothesis” is the misnomer that just won’t die. We don’t need to get sick to be well. A better name is the “biodiversity hypothesis” since the rise in allergic/immune diseases is thought to be related to the loss of contact with biodiverse environments (nature!).
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1/n I’ve been thinking about where we stand in the US currently with respect to COVID19 and how things might proceed until the end of the year and into Q1 2023
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Everybody be overthinking when to get the booster
Get it now
The virus loves the winter
(If you just had COVID you can consider waiting until 3 months after but you don’t have to do IMO just do it)
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Anyone familiar with "Cloudflare" or "error 1015" or why I'm getting a message that I'm "rate limited," and therefore can't access a site that I visit all the time? Hoping someone actually knows because I've already tried googling and it's not helpful.
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After viewing this photo on a larger screen I noticed that either a side effect of the vaccines is static electricity, or I need a better hair conditioner. 💉👩🏻💥
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#Fluvaccine in one arm, #Omicron #COVIDBooster in the other. Hopefully that’ll do it for a while. 


#VaccinesWork #CovidIsntOver
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#Fluvaccine in one arm, #Omicron #COVIDBooster in the other. Hopefully that’ll do it for a while. 💉💪💉💪 #VaccinesWork #CovidIsntOver
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Why do some doctors think it's okay to totally blow off an appointment for an interview with a journalist? I get that it's less urgent than much of what they do, but hey, I'm a #freelancer and my time is valuable. At least a heads-up / apology would be nice. 😒
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We’re so excited and proud to announce that our founding director Dr. has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow (#MacFellow) from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ()!
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Utter nonsense. 👎 (👍💪)
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Why NOBODY should be using the 'thumbs up' emoji in 2022
Full story: trib.al/byjEPbI
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I love nurses. And yes, I stuck my hand in this.
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Hopefully you can see where I'm going here- #LongCovid is a "stealth" disease, which requires "outside the box" thinking.
While mine was a more severe initial case with some abnormal testing(eventually)...A person can have "normal" traditional testing, and still be quite ill. 8/
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Is #LongCovid a "real thing," #MedTwitter? I'll let you decide.
Here's my own case: I'm a cardiologist(40s) with no prior medical Hx & have run tons of marathons & several 1/2 Ironman Tris.
In March '20, I fell ill and became quickly hypoxic and confused. It was COVID-19. 1/
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Another day, another huge study warning us not to be complacent about the looming risk of #LongCOVID.
Is anyone listening?
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Idk I’m kinda looking forward to my first colonoscopy. Like I wonder what’s going on up there. Let’s find out.
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“Let’s spend 5 good minutes on something it seems our government doesn’t want to talk about.. 30 million adults in the US currently have #LongCovid.. 80% of them are having trouble just doing every day things — and I know because I’m living it”
Powerful segment from
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In an interview with Chris Wallace speaks authentically and emotionally about her origins as a young doctor caring for so many people dying from AIDS, and how that shaped her career. The country needs to see more of this side of Dr Walensky.
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#Type1Diabetes notwithstanding: Agree re Smarties, along with Mary Janes, Jolly Ranchers, and all those hard unchewable ones. Also Milk Duds (too sour). Preferred: Candy corn, or anything mixing peanut butter & chocolate. I choose carefully, dose #insulin accordingly. #Halloween
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OK -- what is the candy you least wanted to get when you went trick or treating?
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No patient struggling with a heart attack in the middle of the night has ever asked me how I did in organic chemistry.
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Good one! #diabetes
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Chatting with a pharmacist friend who doesn't have diabetes, and they described themselves as pancreas privileged.
Brilliant when health care professionals get it!
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Not puzzled.
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Covid deaths are unevenly distributed among Republicans and Democrats, but experts are still puzzling over why these differences exist. nbcnews.to/3e7gzKJ
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The ADHD screening test should just be "try to schedule an appointment for your ADHD screening."
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Geez. After I got bad grades in organic chemistry, I decided not to go to medical school and to become a journalist instead. I never considered blaming the professor. #AcademicTwitter
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NYU dismissed a chemistry professor after students said his class was too hard, igniting a debate about the relaxing of academic standards. nyti.ms/3UVGyFp
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in my first for (!!), I talked to disabled & chronically ill ppl about what it's like to date while sick – and how they decide when to divulge their diagnoses
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I was overseas two weeks ago so I missed the announcement that would be cut. Reading that section in print was part of my Sunday routine, and always taught me something new. I’m truly disappointed and hope they reconsider.
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A patient told me that the copay for his Trulicity was $700/month and he had to stop the medication because it was just too expensive. We need to fix this problem.
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Just once I'd like a phone call with #healthinsurance company about an issue to take less than an hour. 🙄
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"We work them up but can't find anything wrong," was a common response of physicians when asked about myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome pre-covid. Now, #longcovid is making it clear that the "workup" for both conditions needs to be expanded. #mecfs #medtwitter
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Them: what’s challenging about #LongCovid is that there are no objective signs and symptoms. Everyone tests “normal”.
Me: Hi and welcome to the clinic. Could you plz stand for 10mins
~70% of ppl with LC: *legs change color and HR spikes*
That seems objectively not normal.
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