#actually diabetic

[exasperated-diabetic]

I'm doing an experiment. This was the only fleshy spot I couldn't feel any muscles push against when flexing my wrist. Obviously it's not exactly out of the way with bending the elbow but we all work our lives around these things one way or another.

[yourturnyourtricks]

"diabetic people can't eat sugar" mf what if my blood sugar goes low?? do i start fucking bloodbending????

[fairy-drop]

Man, having T1D and inattentive ADHD really is a special kind of hell, because what do you mean my insulin pump needs 4 different components to work properly (CGM, cartridge, infusion set and, of course insulin) and I need to keep tabs on all of them and make sure my prescriptions (four separate prescriptions btw) are up to date and make sure I have everything at home at all times and I also need to make sure the damned thing is charged and refill it every three days and if I slip up once I have to potentially deal with a medical emergency? And that is just like 10% of all the diabetes related things I need to remember on a day to day basis?

And the best advice my medical team has for me is to keep alarms on my phone or put a sticky note on my fridge, as if I never tried and failed with hose things before.

[can-of-pringles]

Happy disability pride month

I had a question that just randomly popped into my head, what is the term for when you experience pain because of your disability but from the medicine/aids?

Injections, ports, sites, needles, the wounds your body has to recover from said needles, etc.

Because calling chronic pain doesn't seem right, but it is a constant pain forever.

Taking multiple daily insulin injections is painful, using insulin pump infusion sets and injecting the cannula into your body is painful, putting CGM sensors into your body is painful, and then ripping off the old sets and sites once they're done working, and the wounds on your body from these devices, poking your fingers too. All the time.

I don't think most abled bodied people consider how painful this stuff is.

[everoutoftouch]

Me: so I’m having high blood sugar right before I wake up

Endo: so it looks like you’re having lows at night. Are you over correcting those

Me: it usually takes at least 30 grams to raise me

Endo: so you’re getting highs in the morning because you’re overcorrecting at night

Me: -thinking- seven hours later??? 🤨

[aztecspurthroatgrasshopper]

woke up and my insulin pump was gone. like not ripped out of me (happens sometimes), but the tubing was unclipped from the part connected to the cannula, which can only be done by pressing on the sides on purpose. i woke up to a blood sugar over 400 with a dry mouth and migraine which makes sense without insulin but I am so confused, I distinctly remember making sure my insulin pump was on before bed last night. How in the world did this even happen

[mellusene]

Diabetic G7 bloody sensor discussion underneath the cut:

So I put a new sensor in, and blood squirted out! Like everywhere! I had read on here though, that if it bleeds, you should leave it in till it malfunctions, and then they'll be willing to replace it because it's a "sensor malfunction" right?

So I put pressure on it with paper towels, and it eventually stopped bleeding. Like 15 minutes later.

So I clean up and put an op-site over it to catch any rogue blood, and wait for it to malfunction. It doesn't. I figure the readings must be wrong, so I calibrate. It's within 3 points. Okay I'll just calibrate a few times today to make sure it's functioning, right? It is always only 1-3 points off.

I leave it in and calibrate a couple times a day, and it's only, at most 3 points off. I went through the WHOLE SESSION this way, and it was ALWAYS accurate! I got the full 10 days out of it!

So I plan to leave ones that bleed in as long as it doesn't malfunction or calibrate wrong.

I hope this information helps someone! Which is the only reason I put it on here! 🤓

[autisticsnubbull]

the worst part of diabetes is the 2 hour period between taking my pill and taking my blood sugar where im not allowed to eat anything because suddenly i become the hungriest bitch in the world