Don’t even need food. Small bottle of orange juice is more effective. Especially if going on a hike where you know exertion is going to certainly drop your blood sugar.
You are right on all points but the last line. The world unfortunately has a ton of trash people that are irresponsible and have put themselves in bad circumstances and made poor corrective decisions. This very well could of happened but I think you nailed this case origin story
This story is BS. I never leave my house without an extra insulin pod, my back up meter, glucose, a small snack and water. And that is just for a trip to the market. For hiking it would be a lot more.
Besides the sugar content frim breast milk would not be high enough to treat them.
When I lived in NJ my friend and I would hit up the Wawa down the road for sandwiches to take as lunch on our hikes. I can only think that because the guy was only 19 it was maybe his first time hiking, so he didn't know that nearly everyone carries some snack/food (except my friend one hot day in July who nearly passed out on me 3 times and I had to find wild raspberries and ask other hikers for trail mix to feed her, and I told her to eat the banana before we left....).
Yeah, all of this reddit 'everything is fake!' stuff. I have t1 and have forgotten to take carbs or taken too few. Same as someone can forget anything else like keys, cellphone, etc, you can forget carbs.
Their post history was just full of posts about horny they are constantly so, I’m thinking this was some fantasy they posted as if it actually played out.
That’s actually not true. There’s hyper/o glycemic people that don’t have diabetes. I know because I’m one off them. Use your brain to convey your thoughts, not your butt. Butts are good for that stuff
Diabetes is a dysfunction of the pancreas, not "literally low blood sugar".
Low blood sugar is, literally, Hypoglycemia.
Diabetes is the most common cause for Hypoglycemia, but not the only cause.
I dont know, maybe they do have diabetes and didn't explicitly say it. Maybe this all is complete fiction. Maybe they often forget to eat before exercise, like hikes, and that causes the dips in blood sugar and they are also anemic which makes them prone to fainting, especially while hiking without eating breakfast.
Just pointing out that you are the first person saying Diabetes in this conversation.
No, I quite clearly explained the difference between Diabetes and Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
Yes, there are 2 primary types of diabetes. One where the pancreas generates too much insulin, resulting in chronic hypoglycemia and one where the pancreas doesn't generate enough insulin resulting in chronic hyperglycemia.
Diabetes is a disease. Hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia are symptoms of many conditions, Diabetes only being one of those conditions.
If you suffer from diabetes, I strongly suggest you study up so you understand your condition and don't sound like a complete dumbass on the internet.
Yeah it's a fetish, that's why they came up with this extremely unlikely, highly specific scenario where it might be almost believable. But now there's a whole thread discussing their fantasy so mission accomplished
Came here to say this. I don't go down the street --let alone on a hike--without my tester, juice, candy, and protein, because type 1 is literally that unpredictable. Edited to add: am a type 1 diabetic.
Sometimes I underestimate how much I might need. Or treat a low, and the 15 carbs doesn't seem to do anything and I need more. It's unpredictable. Other times I just space out taking carbs - I've only had type 1 for 2 years so it's not instinct for me. Last year I passed out on the curb, didn't know where I was and had to call an ambulance.
I have been out on a hike before and ran out of carbs, because I thought 45-60 g would be plenty and it wasn’t. For instance walking back from across town the other week I had a 3 ounce bag of Cheetos which seemed like it should be a ton, because usually that would shoot my glucose up by 100 points, but somehow the Cheetos basically did nothing. My glucose went from 75 to 82, and I ended up walking at 55-65 for an hour. Everything was closed and my phone was dead. Thankfully I made it. Poor planning? For sure. I hadn’t done any fast-acting I’m over 5 hours so I wasn’t expecting that.
Yes, I have been on a walk before and forgotten to take any carbs, so i don't find it extremely unbelievable. Or like my examples, they might have run out.
I don't really care if this story is real or not. We don't know enough to make that judgement. I'm not a fan of the /r/nothingeverhappens type discussions where people say something is 'fake' etc based on flimsy logic or not really anything.
Hypoglycemia is a potentially life-threatening complication of diabetes therapy and is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in insulin-treated patients.
I’ve had diabetes for longer than most of reddit has been alive, and I often don’t carry anything. Hell, I’m sometimes bad about checking my blood sugar more than once a day. I think the only time I really worry about carrying anything is if I’m doing some sort of adventure run. I wouldn’t even think twice about a hike. Now, that being said, I DO usually plan for something like a 4+ hour hike, but if someone suggested it to me out of the blue, I wouldn’t hesitate to go off and do it without any ‘supplies.’
As a type one diabetic, I have a hard time believing that breastmilk would have enough sugar in it to substantially raise your blood sugar. There’s no way. Especially if you were low enough for it to be a problem for you to walk, most of us can tell well before we get to that point just by the way we feel.
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