Winning With TYpe 1 Diabetes By Learning How To Use Continuous Glucose Monitoring CGM

Stephen W. Ponder MD, FAAP, CDCES 2018 ADCES Diabetes Educator of the Year Can you “see” diabetes self-care consistency? I think you can. As I discuss in the book Sugar Surfing™, the three “virtues” of the art of dynamic diabetes management are 1) patience, 2) consistency and 3) resilience. By periodically reviewing your own CGM data, a picture of your consistency often emerges. To me, consistency is reflected in the CGM info shown here. These include the time in range (TIR),

Stephen W. Ponder MD, FAAP, CDCES 2018 ADCES Diabetes Educator of the Year When Sugar Surfing™ was published, we knew it captured an attitude and approach to diabetes self-management that many people did but didn’t always talk about. That is no longer the case. We recently surpassed distribution of over 100,000 books in print or electronic format. These books have been sent to over 100 countries on six continents. A print copy of Sugar Surfing is scheduled to be taken to Anta

Stephen W. Ponder MD, FAAP, CDCES 2018 ADCES Diabetes Educator of the Year Since the creation of insulin itself, there has been a growing dependency on technology in the day to day life of persons with diabetes. Diabetes technologies aim to make self-care tasks easier to perform, more accurate, and often faster to complete. Hopefully, the mental burden of diabetes decision making is lightened. But can things be lightened too much? Are persons with diabetes at risk for becom

Stephen W. Ponder MD, FAAP, CDCES "Diabetes control" is a poorly composed and overused phrase in the diabetes world. Patient referrals for “poorly controlled” or “out of control diabetics” are commonplace in my practice. Nevertheless, I cringe inside whenever I hear the word control and diabetes in the same sentence. Why? Because these two words are fundamentally incompatible with each other. Allow me to explain. As a physician, I understand the intent of how the word "contro