This forum has one goal: To help you find a diabetes email buddy.

Did you ever wish that you could check in with your diabetes educator, doctor or dietician every day, every week, or anytime you wanted to? I have, because I've wanted to improve my control and I've thought that having a person to talk with regularly would help. Then I realized that I only needed another person with similar issues to talk with -- a diabetes email buddy!

The purpose of this group is to provide a place for diabetics to find a diabetes buddy -- somebody to link up with over email to provide encouragement and support and to help you keep in control. Link up over email, and talk to each other as often as you like, reporting to each other about your meds, your insulin, your diet, exercise, doctor visits, etc. The goal is control! We hope that type 1 diabetics will hook up with other type 1 diabetics, type 2 diabetics with type 2s, insulin pumpers with other pumpers, etc. If you want to email somebody your own age or gender, language or nationality, that's good too!

In the future we would like to provide information about what it takes to be a good diabetes buddy. Real-life diabetes buddy programs exist in such places as Australia and the UK, sometimes with training. We have no training available here on this blog. The relationship will be entirely your choice and of your making. We are just providing the forum!