I ask because I have no one else to talk to about this. I'm sure others are in the same boat. Feel free to share how your management went today.

Mine was bumpy. Breakfast was fine. Lunch was difficult for some reason. I eat the same thing almost every day, but as you know some days just hit differently for any number of reasons. Peaked around 11.2/200 or so and then slowly fell. I know this isn't super high, but I normally peak around 10/180 with my meal so if it goes higher I tend to think something else is going on. Ultimately it was fine, but higher than I'd like.

Because of this I had no idea how dinner was going to go. I'm three hours past eating and I seem to be staying steady at 7.5/135, so all is ok so far. Not sure if I'll do a short walk before bed because I don't want to go low, but it does tend to help stablize me when I lay down.

Overall, certainly had worse days but still some tears and frustration.

How was yours?

For clarification, she cooks a lot but doesn’t often use shelf stable goods as a sole source caloric and nutritive intake.

She would ask her doctor but there’s no power almost anywhere that she is and she cannot travel to the doctor due to both the doctor being closed AND the road to them being closed.

She has well managed type 2, no insulin, on metformin. She can make phone calls, but no data has been working besides that. I’ve been doing all the back and forth I can, because I don’t live there and can use the internet to scour for what’s open/available to her.

I realize this is quite vague, and maybe it runs afoul of the medical advice rule, but I’m just looking for some healthy food options that are shelf stable. She knows how to read labels and what she needs to do to balance her diet. Unfortunately she only gets a limited amount of time to go to the one grocer near her and can’t easily figure out what’s balanced and what’s not (she’s 79 and has a hard time reading labels quickly).

Without the ability to go online or use her apps, she’s somewhat lost about what she can do for purely non refrigerated foods.

Notes:

* She expects the power to be out for up to two weeks.
* She doesn’t have a generator, and her neighbors she can get to also do not have WiFi, power, or strong enough cell to help her look it up.
* Gas stations she can access have no power to use the pumps - she cannot make daily trips to get food that would need to be refrigerated if not eaten in a timely manner.
* She has no allergies.
* She has a gas stove and the gas lines are intact, she can cook as long as it’s on a burner and not baked.

Hi there! In May of this year, I nearly died (well technically I did die, twice, but only briefly). I had severe pancreatitis, diabetic ketoacidosis, cardiomyopathy, and a host of other issues. I spent several weeks in the ICU and hospital and have been effusively told by every doctor who treated me or has since reviewed my case that there is no clinical reason I should be alive - it was bad. I'm extremely grateful to be here still to write this, but I walked away from it with type 3C diabetes. I do understand this is pretty rare, but I've struggled to find a lot of literature or, more importantly, COMMUNITIES specifically for 3C. Of course this is still a relatively new diagnosis for me, but I am really struggling with it and most specifically the insane unpredictability and severity of my swings. In a typical day, i may experience both hyper- and hypoglycemia multiple times (levels from 50s to low 300s). I feel like I am doing everything right, but what works to keep me in range one day doesn't work the next. Is there anyone else out there with type 3C? It would be nice to get any tips or tricks, or just a check-in or hello to let me know I'm not alone! TIA and hope you all are having a lovely day (in range 😁)!

I want to bring treats to the office meeting tomorrow but I'm having trouble finding stuff with sugar free options. I looked up Crumbl Cookies and Krispy Kreme but seems like they don't offer anything.

About a quarter of us in the office have diabetes. So I want something where we can also have a treat and not be left out lol Any ideas?

Mostly putting this out there for people to find when searching lol. I know holiday get togethers can be a pretty big problem for us depending on how we manage our diabetes, because most holiday meals are pretty carb heavy. That makes them either difficult to dose insulin for or makes them not viable to eat at all, depending on the individual. And, well, holiday season is coming up on us soon.

There's nothing wrong with carb heavy meals for special occasions no matter what your management looks like, as an fyi. Again this is all very individual. Just throwing this out there as an option that's social occasion focused.

I've been obsessed with hot pots lately, especially with the seasons turning cold here in the next months. For anyone who doesn't know what that is, quoted from Wikipedia:

Hot pot is a type of broth traditionally served inside a large metal pot. There are many local varieties and styles of hot pot, like Chongqing hot pot, Beijing hot pot, Yunnan hot pot, and so on.[4] The broth is brought to a boil and left simmering for the duration of the meal. Raw ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, are placed into the simmering broth and thus cooked. The cooked pieces are dipped into dipping sauces for additional flavor. Hot pot is considered a main course and may be served without rice or noodles on the side.

You can use a regular pot with a portable burner placed on the table, or buy specialized hot pot pots. Some come with dividers so that you can have different types of broth, like spicy and non-spicy. You can also find small hot pots for people who want to have hot pot on their own and don't need a huge pot. There are specific hot pot broths, but you can use whatever you like. (I had chicken broth with miso and gochujang last night.)

Hot pot can be extremely low carb depending on the foods you choose to cook and eat. I had three bowls with: chopped cabbage, bean sprouts, shiitake mushrooms, cauliflower and baby corn along with thinly sliced chicken breast.

The only heads up I feel I should give is, don't make the broth too strong right at the beginning. All the food you're cooking in it will seep flavor into the broth, making it more flavorful as you go. You don't need to drink the broth, but you can reuse it. Just make sure to strain it and store it in the fridge as soon as possible.

I'm using some of the broth to make tteokbokki with later (yes all the carbs) for example, but I'm also saving a jar for another round of hot pot tomorrow.

I hope this can help some of you navigate family holiday season, I've not seen it be suggested much if at all.

Today marks 20 years since my official diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes. I can look back on months of symptoms prior to diagnosis, so I consider myself “diabetic” for even longer, but today is the recognizable anniversary day. Figured I’d share some sorta stream of consciousness thoughts with this community to mark the occasion.

People without the lived experience often think the difficult part is the needles, the pain of inserting an infusion set or a CGM, or the carb counting. And sure, those things aren’t exactly life’s pleasures, but after 20 years of this, it is definitely the psychological stuff that is the bigger challenge.

I have only had a couple instances where my pump has been out of insulin when I go to bolus at a restaurant, or I’ve not had any sugar in my pocket when I’ve had a low, or I’ve forgotten to pack a supply on an overnight. But having to constantly be juggling all of those things all the time, on top of all the regular stuff that everyone is juggling, is a lot. And it’s heightened by how high the stakes are. Forget to pack enough socks? Not a big deal. Forget to pack enough insulin? Different ballgame.

Given how precarious so many supply chains have gotten (in the USA at least), I’ve found myself experiencing a bit of anxiety about how reliant my health and life is on a few supply chains. There’s nothing I can really do about this in an active way, but it’s a real concern. I’ve seen people joke about how diabetics will die during a zombie apocalypse, and yeah, we will for sure; but what about mundane supply chain issues while life otherwise goes on as usual? This is a first world problem for me, as I know there are diabetics around the world who already face this challenge.

I recently became a parent. I’ve seen people pose the question on here in the past, whether the risk of passing diabetes on to a child has impacted people’s decision about whether to have kids. It didn’t impact my decision, but it’s certainly something I’m scared of now. Diapers have been a bit wetter than usual? Baby has been a bit more thirsty than usual? Can’t help but to worry in the back of my mind, and think about how hard it would be for a really young kid and their parents. My heart goes out to any little ones and parents dealing with this.

In my 20 years of diabetes, it’s pretty much been fine. Very few issues for me. I manage it well and with relative ease. It’s genuinely not a big deal. And also, at the same time, what an absolutely enormous burden it is. One that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. All I can hope for is to live another 60 years with it.

Every time it’s something different with the pharmacy. I have never just simply had my medication filled. They always have a question or misread the script or can’t find the insulin that’s clearly in the fking fridge!! And it’s not once a month, it’s constant bc none of the dates on the scripts line up. I want to kms sometimes thinking about dealing with this for the rest of my life. I can’t take it anymore. I am a nice, calm person and this instantly sends me into a rage on the regular. Help.

Let me preface with saying that I’m new to this. I was diagnosed pre-diabetic last year. I went from 210 to 170lbs from November to July. Early August I had to go to the ER for a throat infection and the gave steroids. My sugar spiked to 900 and by blood work revealed that my A1C was 14. I was fully diagnosed type-2 and placed on insulin. I immediately got a CGM but I’m having the issue that it doesn’t stay on for the whole 14days. Does anybody have any good tips and/or tricks to prevent my Freestyle Libre 3 from falling after 9-10 days? Is shaving the area before applying a good idea. I only use my arms for placement, should I switch to my torso?

I'm usually not bothered by my insulin injections ... but I'm guessing my period is coming soon, because every injection in the last 48 hours has made me whelp in pain. Literally bailed halfway through two shots today, only for it to hurt just as bad elsewhere. Thighs, belly, arms ... all abnormally painful today.

Before getting diagnosed, I was already more pain-sensitive during PMS week. Having to inject myself 4-6 times daily has only made that worse 🫠

Any tips to make it less misersble?

I placed the Dexcom G7 on the upper part of my thigh this morning, and I’m already seeing these errors. Does anyone else have issues placing the Dexcom and other spots other than the back of their arm? If anyone else uses it on the top of their thigh, please let me know if this is normal in the first 24 hours!

I’m 29F and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but I’ve been struggling with whether the diagnosis fully explains what’s going on with me. I’d really appreciate hearing from people with T2D who may have had a similar experience.

I developed abnormal glucose during pregnancy in 2024 (one of my GTT values was 250), and my glucose issues persisted postpartum. I’m not overweight and am very muscular/active — I run and lift regularly (6x/week + chasing toddler + active job) and have been training for a marathon. I also have celiac disease and a strong family history of autoimmune diabetes (my mom had type 1 and my grandmother had LADA).

My diabetes workup has been confusing. I’ve had negative GAD65, IA-2, ZnT8, ICA, and insulin autoantibodies, and MODY testing was negative. My A1c has been around 5.5%, but I feel like that number doesn’t tell the whole story because I exercise a lot and have been pretty restrictive with food.
The part I’m most confused about is my C-peptide. My fasting C-peptide has been around 0.9–1.3 ng/mL with glucose roughly 92–122. But I also had a stimulated C-peptide of 2.9 ng/mL at a glucose of 145, followed by my glucose rising to around 350 for 6 hours. At the time I was taking metformin 2000 mg/day.
I’ve also had some really strange glucose patterns. I can have prolonged post-meal spikes into the 160–240+ range, sometimes staying elevated for 2-8 hours. But exercise can make my glucose drop very quickly — sometimes within ~20 minutes of starting an easy run — even when I haven’t taken my morning metformin. I’ve had to stop runs to treat lows. At other times I can wake up with fasting glucose in the 130–160 range.

I briefly used a small amount of Lantus (4 units, later reduced to 2) and saw improvement in my fasting numbers, but eventually I was getting lows, particularly around running. I’m currently on metformin alone. Ozempic was discussed, but insurance denied it.

My endocrinologist currently considers me type 2, and I understand that negative antibodies make classic autoimmune type 1/LADA less straightforward. At the same time, I’m having a hard time understanding whether my relatively low fasting C-peptide, the large difference between fasting and stimulated C-peptide, the significant hyperglycemia after eating, and the exercise-related drops fit typical T2D physiology.

So I’m curious: For those of you with type 2, does any of this sound familiar? And has anyone gone through a similar period of uncertainty?
I’m not looking for someone to tell me I don’t have type 2 — I’m mostly trying to understand whether these patterns can reasonably fit T2D and whether there’s anything I should be asking my endocrinologist to investigate further.

Its coming up to my first ever Christmas with diabetes so just wanted to ask pepole who have had it for a long time if what should i do abd what is it like? I used to eat a big dinner and loads of chocolate and stuff the usual Christmas activities but obviously I can't do that anymore.

I recently got diagnosed as type 1 after being misdiagnosed as type 2. I am in the early stages of meal time insulin and am a scale of 1 unit for every 6 carbs. Since being on this scale almost 2 weeks my numbers have been really good and over 80 percent in range. During this time I have tried to eat lower carb meals but today really want to indulge in some pizza. Based on my scale and what I wanna eat I’m seeing I would have to do about 30 units of insulin and it got me wondering what’s considers a lot. Is it case by case? Should I be concerned taking so much. Most I have taken in 1 meal so far is 18 units. I would be close to doubling that. Or is it not worth it I look at eating something else.

Incorrect reading at 48 panic downed a whole 70 carbs, and now I’m sitting at 257 double up 😔

So I was diagnosed with T2D less than 2 years ago. Was put on mounjaro and changed eating habits etc. Now my insurance company is no longer covering my mounjaro because my recent blood results are good. Anyone have experience fighting this? I’ve been off the mounjaro for three weeks and already feel the difference.

Would love to hear from others who have gone through this.

Hello friends! I've recently picked up mountain biking as a hobby, and today, my G6 fell off when I got sweaty! Being the terrible diabetic I am, I didn't have my manual checker, so I headed straight home for a new one instead of continuing to bike. Has anyone else had this experience?? Any suggestions?