Diabetes Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

The Diabetes Resource

• Description: "Your ultimate guide for everything diabetes related."
• Quality: "TheDiabetesResource.com is the first ultimate diabetes directory that branches out into all areas of diabetes."

Children with Diabetes

• Description: "The mission of Children with Diabetes, Inc. is to promote understanding of the care and treatment of diabetes, especially in children; to increase awareness of the need for unrestricted diabetes care for children at school and daycare; to support families living with diabetes; and to promote understanding of research into a cure. "
• Content: Forums, care suggestions and you can also ask the medical team.
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Diabetes Handprint

• Description: "At OneTouch®, we believe that when we all speak together, our voice will be heard. That’s why, inspired by The Word in Your Hand™ Project found on Tudiabetes.com®, we created the Global Diabetes Handprint. "
• Content: You can share your story or read others.
• Quality: Courtesy of LifeScan.

Diabetic Connect

• Description: "We make it easy to start conversations, share recipes, ask questions about diabetic products, and much more. Our hope is to give you the support and information you need to live a long healthy life with diabetes."
• Content: Discussions, blogs, events, product reviews.
• Quality: Member of the Alliance Health Community.

dLife

• Description: "Welcome to the leading online diabetes resource. dLife is THE place for all aspects of your diabetes lifestyle, offering information and community support for type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and caregivers. From questions about blood sugar to delicious diabetic recipes, we're here to help. "
• Content: Blogs, podcasts, recipes, questions and answers, forums, TV and news.
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

eHealthForum - Diabetes Forum

• Description: "Welcome to the Diabetes Forum - a health community featuring member and doctor discussions ranging from a specific symptom to related conditions, treatment options, medication, side effects, diet, and emotional issues surrounding medical conditions."
• Quality: It is accredited by HONcode.

Healia - Diabetes Online Health Communities and Support Groups

• Description: Healia offers three unique sites for Type 1, Type 2 and for Gestational Diabetes
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

HealingWell - Diabetes Forum

• Description: "HealingWell.com is a thriving social network and support community for patients, caregivers, and families coping with the daily struggles of diseases, disorders and chronic illness."
• Quality: Health content is contributed by reputable health organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, Mediwire and e-HealthSource.

HealthCentral - Diabetes Community

• Description: "Make a connection, ask a question, share a concern, give advice or just chat. Our message boards connect you with a community of people who understand where you’re coming from and what you’re going through."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Inspire - Diabetes Community

Diabetes Type 1 and Type 2 Support Group.

• Description: An online community connecting patients with diabetes, and their caregivers, family and friends.
• Quality: Inspire connects patients, families, friends, caregivers and health professionals for health and wellness support. Inspire works with trusted health partners to build safe and secure health and wellness groups.

Juvenation - A Type 1 Diabetes community

• Description: "DRF is a leader in setting the agenda for diabetes research worldwide, and is the largest charitable funder and advocate of type 1 research. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research."
• Content: Blogs, groups, videos and forums.
• Quality: Since its founding in 1970 by parents of children with type 1 diabetes, JDRF has awarded more than $1.3 billion to diabetes research, including more than $156 million in FY2008. In FY2008, the Foundation funded more than 1,000 centers, grants in laboratories, hospitals, and industry, and fellowships in 22 countries.

Living out Loud with Diabetes

• Description: "A Positive, Fun, Informative Community for Diabetics and those that Love 'em"
• Content: Discussions, events, forums, photos and videos.
• Quality: A free-to-use forum and community site.

MDJunction - Diabetes Groups

• Diabetes Type 1 and Type 2 Support Group.

• Description: "A community of patients, family members and friends dedicated to dealing with Diabetes together."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

MedHelp - Diabetes Communities

• Description: This forum is for help, questions and support regarding for both juvenile (type 1) and adult (type 2) Diabetes.
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Medpedia - Diabetes Community

• Description: "This community is for patients, providers, caregivers and others interested in learning more about Pre-Diabetes, Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (Juvenile Diabetes), Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Gestational Diabetes, Diabetes Insipidus, Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus, Feline Diabetes, and related conditions."
• Quality: Medpedia is a medical encyclopaedia managed and edited by medical professionals.

My Food Advisor

• Description: It helps you learn what you can it as a diabetic patient.
• Content: You can explore foods or search recipes.
• Quality: Managed by the American Diabetes Association

My Life - for young people with diabetes

• Description: A series of community sites providing children and teenagers with information on diabetes management.
• Content: Stories, guides and suggestions.
• Quality: The project of Diabetes UK.

ParentingDiabeticKids.com

• Description: "As much as they’d like to, most people just don’t “get” what it’s like to parent children with diabetes. The reality of what we live day-to-day is something that can only be completely understood by other parents who shuffle to bedsides at all hours of the night and know that the difference between a tsp. and a Tbsp. is much more than it seems."
• Quality: The authors are Jeff and Natalie Kolok.

Reality Check

• Description: "The Reality Check website is managed by The Type 1 Diabetes Network Inc., a non-profit organisation run by a small team of dedicated volunteers, all of whom have Type 1 diabetes themselves. "
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Revolution Health - Diabetes Community

• Description: "Revolution Health offers trusted health information, expert advice, drug and treatment information, doctor ratings, and a strong community to help you and your family with health issues."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

SugarStats

• Description: "SugarStats gives you a simple and easy-to-use interface to input and access your data from home, school, work, when you're on the road or just about anywhere at all. All you need is a web browser and the desire to take control of your diabetes."
• Content: Graphs and Trends, Twitter Integration, Mobile Edition.

TuDiabetes

• Description: Today, TuDiabetes.com® is an Online Community where the members help each other out, educate ourselves and share the steps we take every day to stay healthy while living with this very serious condition."
• Content: >7000 members, blogs, forums, events and news.
• Quality: It is run by the Diabetes Hands Foundation.

Voices of Diabetes

• Description: "Join the Voices of Diabetes community where people living with diabetes, loved ones, and diabetes educators all share their perspectives on coping with diabetes. Get insight on self-care topics ranging from meal planning tips to ideas for staying active. Discover a vibrant community or submit and share your own strategies for managing diabetes. "
• Content: Tips about how to manage your diabetes.
• Quality: Novo Nordisk has a strategic alliance with the Mayo Clinic to improve the management of diabetes.

WebMD® - Diabetes Community

• Description: "Diabetes isn't just a disease, it's a way of life with blood glucose monitors, diet, and everyday challenges. Get expert input and member advise here."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous Diabetes groups:

American Diabetes Association

• Description and content: "The mission of the ADA is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. To fulfill this mission, the Association funds research, publishes scientific findings, provides information and other services to people with diabetes, their families, health professionals and the public."

Diabetes UK

• Description and content: "Diabetes UK is the largest charity in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition. Our mission is to improve the lives of people with diabetes and to work towards a future without diabetes."

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

• Description and content: "This group is dedicated to those who live with diabetes, know someone with diabetes, or who just want to be part of the JDRF family. JDRF is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes."

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• Description and content: "This is a group for anyone living with diabetes, anyone affected by the disease, or anyone that would like to know more about it. Feel free to post links, information, events, etc.."

Diabetes

• Description and content: "The reason why I'm given you this information is because I've got the condition myself. I did not know i had it until i went for a medical for a job, the nurse told me I had to much sugar in my urine..so I did not pass. I went to my GP and after a few tests she told me I had the condition, now I'm doing my best to control it."

Diabetes Hope Foundation

• Description and content: "Diabetes Hope Foundation is a grassroots non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance the lives of children and adolescents living with diabetes. Diabetes Hope Foundation enables young children and adolescents to aspire to their full potential through education, self-management and future independence."

Diabetes Support Group

• Description and content: "Support for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics and friends and families."

Gestational Diabetes

• Description and content: "A group open to people affected by Gestational Diabetes to share stories, recipes and most important: advice."

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Kerri Morrone Sparling at Sixuntilme.com participated in the Diabetes 365 project.

"Over the last 366 days (leap year added the extra challenge), I've lived my life with my camera at the ready, snapping photos of everything from CGM sensors to snacks ... and the moments in between. I thought that the Diabetes 365 project would make me feel like diabetes is an overwhelming facet of my life, but instead I've seen that diabetes truly does not define any of us. We can grab pictures of our meters and our pump sites, but there's also so much LIFE going on between all these moments of diabetes management."



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