May 3, 2025
type I diabetes is so unserious like how do you explain to someone that a bag of skittles can literally save your life and expect them to believe you
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type I diabetes is so unserious like how do you explain to someone that a bag of skittles can literally save your life and expect them to believe you
"i didnt know you were diabetic" do you think i give myself insulin for fun. do you think my locker sugar stash is for fun. do you think i have a bunch of glucose tabs in my bag for fun. do you think i have a dexcom for fun. do you think i do this for fun.
I hate the US healthcare and insurance system. I don’t know what is going on behind the scenes but if it doesnt get fixed or I can’t find a solution, I’m royally fucked.
For context, I’m a Type 1 Diabetic and I need insulin to live. Since I got diagnosed back in 2017, I’ve been using shots and been prescribed Humalog for my fast acting insulin. Now, for whatever bum-fuck reason, my insurance has just decided to change my insulin??? I’m still prescribed to Humalog, but my latest shipment has been Novolog. This wouldn’t be such a problem except the fact that the Novolog cartridges don’t fit into my pen, making them completely useless. Luckily, I still have plenty of Humalog left, but unless I can find a pen that can fit my new cartridges or get my insurance to stop trying to fuck me over and give me my Humalog left, I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m fortunately in a fortunate situation, cause I know people who have to deal with the exact same thing except they don’t have enough insulin to last them.
So now I have four boxes of insulin I can’t use, five boxes of Humalog left, an insurance company who won’t give me my actual prescription, and a healthcare system that does not help me in any way.
it's okay if you can't take pride in your disability yet - if you're still suffering shame, too wrapped in trauma from either it itself or the ableism of others.
you deserve to be proud, you deserve to reclaim parts of it you were hurt by, you deserve respect and to be trusted to know yourself and your disability.
i hope and believe one day you can be proud and celebrate your disability, but until then, try to treat yourself with compassion and love. you deserve it.
It’s about time I talked about this too, for the sake of my Diabetic community out there.
Abled-bodied people on twitter and Facebook are using Continuous Glucose Monitors for weight loss programs. Using a device for a disability for their own beauty and ‘healthy and fit!!1’ purposes.
CGMs, as they’re called more commonly, were specifically made for Diabetics. And only for Diabetics. It’s to help make our lives just a little bit easier with the chronic condition we’re stuck with.
CGMs were NOT made for able bodied people to sit there and use it for their weight loss programs. They don’t even bother to to any tests beforehand to make sure someone can use the damn things right. Nor did these groups consult doctors about the risks.
These groups need to be stopped. They need to be reported for malpractice and harm to the general public. They’re fucking ableist assholes who are doing harm to the Diabetic community and the general public and I will not stand for that.
If any info I’ve presented here is wrong, please correct me in a reblog.
YALL NEED TO REBLOG THIS POST AND SPREAD THIS. BUT ABLE-BODIED FOLKS IF I SEE YOU CLOWNING ON THIS POST ITS ON SIGHT. /gen
someone needs to invent a diabetes summer camp for adults, but instead of the point being to teach you independence and resiliency, you can just hand all of your devices over to the medical team and let them handle the numbers for you so you can take a week off and eat whatever you want and do whatever activities you want, all without having to worry about your own blood sugars or insulin dosing
unfortunately my school IS named after the guy who discovered insulin (sir fredrick banting) and yet they do not understand type 1 diabetes
tfw your new dexcom spends the first 12 hours being so inaccurate that you have to do 50 finger sticks throughout the day to know where you're actually at, thereby completely negating the point of having a cgm in the first place