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Nationwide Recall of some Injectable Methotrexate
Reprinted from Creaky Joints on April 26, 2015 See this press release on FDA.gov POTTERS BAR, England, and PITTSBURGH – April 23, 2015 – Mylan N.V. (Nasdaq: MYL) today announced that its U.S.-based Mylan Institutional business is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall to the hospital/user level of select lots of the following injectable products due to the presence of visible foreign particulate matter observed during testing of retention samples. NDC Number Product Name and Strength Size Lot Number Expiration Date 67457-464-20...
read moreHow to treat a low
I am writing this at 2 AM on Friday morning since I am awake due to a low. Of course I went to bed high and I corrected, which made me low, and so here I sit. I want to go to pantry and rage eat. I mean I can and would right now consume 5,000 calories if I could and not gain weight or feel ill in the morning. Of course if I consumed what I want I would need to get in the car (not a good idea) and find a pancake place to let it rip. Instead I am having my two favorite foods, a tablespoon of peanut butter and half of a honey crisp apple. ...
read moreWhat does your RA look like ?
Reprinted from CreakyJoints.org What does your RA look like ? What does your rheumatoid arthritis look like? Recently I have been involved in a project that helps people with chronic disease (mostly diabetes) visualize and confront their disease. The organization is the ‘The Betes’ if you wish to look in on their activities you can at: http://thebetes.org/ ‘The Betes’ uses theater, puppets and visualization to assist people in confronting their unseen chronic disease. For those who go through the process they gain a new understanding of...
read moreWhy have RADiabetes.com ?
Purpose of RADiabetes.com This site is new but it is the product of much planning and a great deal of thought. I formed this site because I have both Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and diabetes so I deal with the real issues caused by each. To me both diseases are a constant issue. The tape image shows a stack of colored tape. For me my life is like that tape. Each disease is staked on the other and all require management to be successful. Two days ago I went riding my bicycle. It was a glorious day. I rode for about 10 miles. But before I set...
read moreMacGregor Park
On a sunny Sunday afternoon in early Fall 2014 my wife, Sheryl and I went to a new park near our home in Central Indiana just north of Indianapolis. MacGregor Park is a rather large park and not well developed. It was our first visit and we had not prepared for a long hike. This urban park is vast with so many trails it is hard to know where you are or where you are going, and because of budget restrictions, the trails are not well marked. We walked in a circle and then another. We strolled in a wonderfully primordial thick old growth of...
read moreWelcome to RA Diabetes
Welcome to RADiabetes (RAD). RAD is a personal web site developed by Rick Phillips to share general information as well as my personal story of living with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Type 1 Diabetes. I also like to poke fun at the diseases, discuss a social issue or two and occasionally tell others about my family life. Even though I am the only person with these diseases, in my family we all live with the consequences and humor that having one or both of these diseases bring. I hope as you visit the site you will find meaning, inspiration and...
read moreSchool Daze
I was diagnosed with diabetes and started taking injections of insulin during the summer between my Junior and senior year of High School. I was 17, madder than hell about being diagnosed and determined that no one was going to give me anything because of Diabetes. I admit it was a crazy idea but it was the one I had adopted as school started that year. I suppose at some point I was responsible for telling the office after all I was now an insulin dependent diabetic and had anyone asked, I might have complied. But short of someone coming up...
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