recreational insulin use

I'm 23 years old and my immune system cannot stand my endocrine system diagnosed april 9, 2015 with type 1 diabetes. I also have hashimoto's.

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candy is always appreciated

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no rest for the sicked

[diabeticgossipgirl]

This is a GAME

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when the smallest bolus your pump can give sends your blood sugar into the mariana trench

night corrections, not even once

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anyone else have that one fucking food that makes this happen every time you eat it

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insulin smells kinda gross

[diabeticgossipgirl]

Where is the lie 

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when your blood sugar is high but you have social anxiety problems and hate looking abnormal and the people around you wanna eat so you gotta correct as discretely as possible and find a way to wait 40 minutes to eat your food without looking weird...

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a comic to express an emotion

[alternativefactoids]

What is a big challenge of being diabetic?

None of the day to day tasks seem like a huge challenge. Monitoring blood sugar throughout the day doesn’t seem like a difficult thing on its own. Neither does remembering to bolus after every meal or to grab an extra pump site or battery or enough syringes or pen needles before heading out for the day or accurately counting carbs and calculating an insulin dosage. Doing things like changing a site or injecting insulin or pricking fingers for a blood sample aren’t horrible on their own. Really, neither is living with the scars these things leave all over a body.

I guess the ~big~ challenge of Diabetes is the stress of dealing with these little things together day after day for years and forcing yourself to do so through the bouts of depression and frustration that come along with knowing you’ll have to continue to do all of these things for the rest of your life. 

While this can get you down, it’s important to know you’re totally allowed to make mistakes! Nobody is perfect. You’ll have off days where nothing seems to work. Don’t be too hard on yourself.

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usually I have enough hypo unawareness for lows to just be some vague feeling of unease and a number on a screen that I know I have to do something about, but every so often I still feel them, like really feel them the way I did when I’d just started using insulin and had never been below 70 in my life before. that “oh my god I’m going to die if I don’t eat all the junk food in my kitchen” feeling. anyway right now is one of those times and I’ve probably overtreated already oops

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last 24 hours (70-120)

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I just want to go one whole night without getting woken up by this bullshit, is that too much to ask for

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It is not that simple...

People seem to think that we are in charge of our sugar levels and if it is not controlled it is our fault and we are to blame for it. Unless you have diabetes you are not going to understand, but I assure you it doesn’t work that way.

[sweet-diabetic-blog]

What is it like not to have diabetes?

I was diagnosed with T1D a week before I turned 2 and have been diabetic for 16 years now so I have no recollection of life without diabetes. What is it like? Freedom? Stress free? Please, if you remember life without diabetes, let me know.

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You eat whatever you want, whenever you want, and as much as you want or as little as you want in a sitting. You feel fine no matter what you ate. No highs and no lows. No timing doses or counting carbs; you never even think about eating, you just do it. You can just get up and eat a candy bar and graze on half a bag of chips for the next hour because you feel like it and no thought goes into that at all. No testing, no monitoring. No worrying about health insurance, no needing to incorporate hauling around all your supplies and medication with you into your plans to travel anywhere. You just... live. You can sleep all day and never be woken up by a CGM beeping at you. You can decide to work out and not have to think about what’s going on with the chemicals in your blood. It’s those rare moments when our blood sugar is in range and not likely to change so we just ignore it for a couple hours, only that’s every moment of your life no matter what you’re doing. And you don’t appreciate it at all because that’s how everyone else around you is too and you never imagine that one day it’ll all be gone. 

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when healthy people talk about their severe low blood sugar and how they went into “hypoglycemic shock” from skipping breakfast

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(basal rate on low nighttime setting) (haven’t bolused in over 6 hours) (blood sugar falls to 55 for no reason anyway) but Why