Diabetes: Taking Control of My Health

Given her successful weight loss, we elected to try taking her off of the medication. During the next three months, her home fasting blood glucose levels were always less than 120. RESOURCES Improving Chronic Illness Care: Self-management support http://www.improvingchroniccare.org/downloads/selfmanagement_support_presentation_template_with_citations.ppt University of California, San Francisco, Office of Developmental Primary Care: Patient action plan http://developmentalmedicine.ucsf.edu/pdf/actionPlan/EnglishActionPlan.pdf Close-ups is coordinated by Caroline Wellbery, MD, Associate Deputy Editor, with assistance from Amy Crawford-Faucher, MD; Jo Marie Reilly, MD; and Sanaz Sara Majd, MD. Questions about this department may be sent to Dr. Wellbery at afpjournal@aafp.org.