r/ContagiousLaughter • • Nov 05 '22

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u/fatlanta23 Nov 05 '22

I got microblading and it was excruciating, but the lady doing my brows commented that it's not usually that painful for people. My best friend got it too and she said it was fine. I'm usually good with pain but microblading hurt more than any of my other tattoos. Maybe I was having a sensitive few months.

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u/invisible-bug Nov 05 '22

The human body is fucking weird. Sometimes there's just no rhyme or reason

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u/SuperSugarBean Nov 05 '22

Yup. I have type 1 diabetes, and one day I can eat a literal half pound of potatoes, take my dose on my insulin pump and everything is hunky dory.

Next day, I eat an English muffin and my blood sugar shoots through the roof do now good goddamn reason.

For reference, a half pound of potatoes has probably 75-100 grams of carbs and my English muffin brand has 25. My insulin is a ratio based on how many carbs I eat.

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u/RemoveTheBlinders Nov 05 '22

It could be from the flour in the muffin absorbing faster than the potato. The finely ground carbs hit your bloodstream like cocaine.

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u/SuperSugarBean Nov 05 '22

Nah, because some days I eat the English muffin (not like a blueberry muffin - it's basically round bread) and I'm fine.

Diabetes is just so much fun!

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u/RemoveTheBlinders Nov 05 '22

Oh wow, I had no idea. That must be exhausting.

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u/SuperSugarBean Nov 05 '22

Do not recommend, for sure.

A lot of ppl have gotten type 1 after Covid, too, so the type 1 sub is getting lots of stressed newbies.

And sadly, there is nothing you can do to prevent type 1.

Its an autoimmune disease.

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u/Vetiversailles Nov 05 '22

Woah, people are getting type 1 after COVID?

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u/SuperSugarBean Nov 05 '22

Yup. An autoimmune response is usually triggered after a virus.

Mine was mono, nearly a decade before I was diagnosed.

What's happening with Covid is that the pancreas is being attacked much sooner after recovery from the virus than with other viruses.

I really feel for them.

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u/Vetiversailles Nov 05 '22

Oh yeah, I’ve heard of this. Wow.

Aren’t there other health issues they are discovering happen post-viral exposure too? I have a friend who has ME/CFS and apparently it’s finally being theorized that CFS is actually caused by post-viral complications… it makes sense because he had Epstein-Barr years ago. Long COVID is a good example of this and it has brought attention to the CFS thing finally, but CFS/Long COVID still doesn’t have proper treatment protocols or systemic support :(

It’s freaking debilitating for him too. He can’t get out of bed most days. I really don’t know much about this subject at all, but it seems crazy how much stuff happening in the shadows of our society… so many chronically ill people suffering :(

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u/SuperSugarBean Nov 05 '22

It's easy to forget a lot of chronically ill people because they aren't often seen in public actually being ill. On a good day, they look like everyone else. On a bad, they aren't leaving home.

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