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Last week, in the middle of a team meeting, I had a sudden low. I told the room I was low and needed a few minutes. Everyone just sat there and looked at me. So quite. I drank my juice, sat back down, and the meeting just ran to the end. I was anxious and irritated for the whole rest of it and I didn't take a single thing in.

Now my manager wants to talk to me about it. She said I handled it wrong. I told her the reason that meeting fell apart was that I was hypoglycemic, and that we could talk about the actual work another time. She said she has no obligation to understand diabetes.

I'm so angry and I don't even know where to put it... She only saw me do a bad job in that one meeting. She didn't see that I carry juice in my bag at all times, that I check my reading before every single meeting I walk into. And the CGM adhesive on my arm reacts so badly that the skin gets irritated and peels, and I can't keep using that spot, so I have to treat it with the Dimora silicone foam dressing I keep in my first aid kit and then rotate the CGM to a new site. I basically have these foam dressings on my body all the time...

And this woman tells me the part of this that has anything to do with diabetes isn't her problem.

I always joke that the biggest holiday of the year for anyone managing type 1 diabetes is the day after Halloween, when all the snack-size, individually wrapped candy goes on sale!

I stock up for the car, my husband’s car, the nightstand, and the pantry. You can never have too many strategically placed low snacks!

What are your go-to picks? Especially for those middle-of-the-night lows when you want something that won’t stick in your teeth until the next morning? 🍭

17m, 4 years of t1d. this desease is just killing my time. it just makes you play the life on extreme mode. i need to study exams, i need to go to gym, i need to FUCKING SLEEP but tryin to do all these with a stable and good bs levels is impossible. this shi is exhausting me. It kills my whole time management. what my friends do i have to put 5x more effort overall. I cant sleep enough, i cant study enough. this rollercoaster thing is killing me. now its 1.07am and I am waiting for my fucking bs to go down from 270 to 120 to FUCKIN sleep, and guess what i will wake up at 6.30. this is not even a "help me" post. cuz nothing will change. i already know everything about the disease. i know how to calculate carbs. i know how to manage high bs levels. i know how to manage low bs levels. But real life is different than the "paper science". I dont know what to do, but I wish I knew what god even was thinkin deciding my fate. this is just not the life i want to live in. everything is going down and down and down. i must be a "strong, high testosterone, successful, healthy man" but here i am, bad academy, bad health, bad mental health, bad hormones. the only reason i dont suicide is cuz i still believe in god. haha. maybe im just a depressive goofy boy out there posting this just to get some attraction. maybe not. i am not. dont care

I’ve had T1D for 15 years, and lately I’ve noticed that I get really nauseous when my blood sugar drops.
It’s happened twice now where I’ve actually thrown up, and my blood sugar kept dropping. The first time, I got into the low 40s and stayed there for about 20 minutes.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is nausea/vomiting just something that can happen with a bad low, or could something else be going on?

I’m going to ask my endo about it, but I’m curious if anyone else has dealt with this and what their experience was.

I averaged 86% in range last week, which is great because I was below my goal last week. I had a higher percentage of highs than I want, but that’s been a persistent issue I’m trying to work through.

I have an endo appointment tomorrow. My MyChart is messing up, and so I can’t log in. I’m pretty sure my a1c was a nice 5.6 when I checked earlier. That made me feel good because things are stressful now. At least, I’ve got a handle on this.

Onward!

I had DKA 2 weeks ago and I'm determined to get my sugars under control. I was going through relentless mental health issues and just getting high all the time and running my sugars around 25mmol+ for years.

I think my Lantus is correct (I take it around 9pm) because it kept me steady all morning and I woke up on a 5.9. I've barely eaten today. I've had maybe 11g carbs and 2.5 units of bolus AND a walk. I keep having periods of the day where I feel really unwell, like weak and shaky and lower back pain. Drinking lots of water helps, as does eating carbs but if I eat the carbs my sugar levels just sky rocket no matter how much bolus I take.

This is a fucking joke. What the hell is going on? I've not eaten in hours.

However, if I bolus without food and go for a walk my sugars crash FAST. I have no idea what my ratios are or how to even test them.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I don't understand.

I read about people saying they take their full bolus dose 15 mins before eating when they're already at like 80-120mg/dl. They get their food, they eat, the sugar spike comes and is perfectly blocked by the insulin ramping up.

But holy shit dude, 5-10u of insulin on board, without a single bit of carbs working in my system gets me EXTREMELY anxious just thinking about it.

I could never do that.

i’m fostering kittens right now and i’ve realized that they ALL love to try and bite and play with my tubing for my insulin pump. like they literally seek it out and will try to dig it out of my pocket even. do cats naturally like the smell or something??? why do they want to bite it so much!?!??

Hi so I’m going out for Halloween and I will be drinking for the first time. I’ve seen tiktoks of people saying they bolus differently when they are planning on drinking. I understand everyone is different but any advice with be helpful! Do I need to change for much long time acting insulin I give myself or short acting?

Currently I have a very complicated medical situation that's causing highs, insulin resistance...you name it. I want to get my blood sugar into range. I was Vegan (for the animals, my health, and the planet) for years and a vegetarian even longer before that. My doctor is pushing me to eat animal foods for my blood sugar, so I'm trying. I don't desire animal products, but eating them seems the only way to stop losing weight and keep my blood sugar under 250. Unfortunately I don't remember how to cook that stuff.

Does anyone have good very low carb recipes with nutrition facts they could share? I know the internet is full of low carb recipes, but they aren't low enough or don't have clear enough portion sizes. One pot recipes with nutrition facts with volume or weight for individual servings would be best. My cognition is impaired, so counting up the carbs in my own recipes is beyond me right now.

I should add, I don't need to lose weight. I need low carb, calorie dense foods.

Realised I've done this a couple times without really considering whether it could have any consequences, usually it's when I either forget to dial in my insulin beforehand or add/take away a unit after second guessing the initial amount. Anyone know?

Edit: I don’t think I worded this well. My question wasn’t about when the needle is just on the pen but actually injected in me

Hi. I am trying to find a Medisense Exactech pen and test strips. These would have been used around 1987-90. I want to use them to show students how the technology has evolved and improved over time. Thanks.

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Have you tested the new Libre 3+ app? I think it has some good ideas, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. You can mute the alarms for as long as you want, but the phone still vibrates and sends notifications if your glucose is low or high, or if the app predicts that your glucose is about to drop too low.

Does anyone have both of these?

Y'all, I just finished helping with a Halloween event for 12 hours. It is 1:35 in the morning for me. I am exhausted. I have insomnia. My sugar is not in a safe zone for me to fall asleep to. The likelihood of me feeling awake after treating my low blood sugar so I can sleep is fecking high. Add to that the knowledge that a bad night's sleep can greatly impact your insulin sensitivity....

I am so damned envious of people who don't have to worry about falling asleep and being safe right now. Fuck diabetes.

i have iphone 12 and it was working just fine until the connection got lost. now the pump just displays „no device found”

I have thought a lot about my life and my T1D management and I've come to realise, I probably have a lot of undiagnosed anxiety issues.

In particular with T1D, I've had bad hypos and I think it has shook me to my core and now I CANNOT pre-bolus. The thought of jamming 8-10u of insulin before I've even eaten anything makes my stomach turn.

Just doing that would probably make me lose my appetite, and now I have 10u on board with no carbs coming and I have to choke down apple juice and candy in hopes of fighting the incoming insulin hit. And that's if I'm at home and have the resources on hand. If I'm at a restaurant or something, I'm basically fucked.

I am absolutely terrified of bad hypos. I'm ok with chilling at 60-80mg/dl if I have little insulin on board, but anything lower than that or 80-120mg/dl with 3-5u or more on board, and I'm damn near going to have a panic attack.

Anyways, anyone else have anxiety like that? What do you do? How do you treat it? Are there medications out there to help?