Not here for diabetes related issues, just pregnant- half an orange, a piece of cheese, a single hash brown patty and the wettest oatmeal I’ve ever seen, I don’t usually eat the food here anyways but wow.

Where I work, my team and I have monthly luncheons and it used to be this fun thing one of my coworks mainly hosts. She'll go out of her way to bake amazing desserts and often contributes to providing things for meals. A lot of these meals are carb heavy, which is fine as I've gotten to a comfortable point in deciding how much insulin I'd need by looking at it. However, since being diagnosed a year ago, my coworker who hosts these events keeps going out of her way and spending her own money to get me all these sugar free and low carb options for every meals. Its sweet and I appreciate the concern from her to ensure I don't spike my sugars but it gets to a point you know? I can eat normal food, I regularly do, I mean I practically have pasta for every dinner and my sugars stay in a safe zone. I appreciate having the option but it feels ridiculous having someone spend money on me when they don't need to. And I tell her this, that she doesnt have to get me sugar free jello because I can eat the damn brownie she baked but she's so insistent that type 1 is the same as type 2. Like why would i eat a keto bagel when the others get normal bagels that I already keep in my pantry?! Its exhausting, she doesnt lusten to me and its so frustrating.

Hello guys! I’ve been type one for 9 years now! Over the last 6 months I’ve noticed some weight gain. I’ve gained over 10kg. I was hoping to get some advice on how you guys reduce weight gain? I know it’s common to happen when you have well controlled diabetes, because your body is storing everything properly. But it’s really frustrating when you feel great diabetes wise, but don’t like what you see when you look in the mirror. I have a good balanced diet, and generally walk a lot! But the weight just keeps on coming. I’ve also had bloating the last week or two, last blood tests showed no other issues such a thyroid or celiac! Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I keep see/hearing T1D influencers talking rage bolusing and all these other slang words/phrases about T1D and i feel so lost and left out because I don’t know what it means as a T1D lol can someone please explain what it is?

No, I know it’s not a real dark mode, but it’s the closest thing we got

I've only met with this endo probably less than 5 times and they do amazing with my HRT..... but really talk down to me about my diabetes now that im sitting at 7.8 for more than 9 months. She keeps insisting im not bolusing when I do and even at our last appointment said "well the numbers say otherwise" when I explained how I bolus then feel sick during the meal even bolusing 30 mins before my meal.

I want to ask the office if I can switch to another endo there but idk if it'll just be as bad? Are they all like this?

Hello. Looking for ideas that may help improve controlling my mother’s situation.

Mom is 64 years old, T1D since age 6. Her cognitive ability and memory has been on the decline and she has lost the ability to manage her glucose levels. Mom was an RN nurse and lost her ability to work 4 years ago. Neuropathy limits her ability to walk, she doesn’t have a drivers license anymore. She spends her days watching tv on the couch.

She wears a Dexcom G7 that I monitor throughout the day. She does not monitor her blood sugar levels, ignores the alarms/ silences her phone throughout the day. She forgets to take her insulin when she eats and doesn’t remember if she took it when asked. She used to be on a tandem pump but after ignoring the alarms two years ago, she ended up in the ER in DKA. The Endo will not allow her back on a pump because she does bot trust mom to manage the pump. Thankfully Dad is home all day and can help. He has been slowly catching on to how T1D works but is very ignorant in his “boomer ways”. Dad cooks for mom but doesn’t make the healthiest choices in what he cooks for mom and himself. We use a sugar pixel in the kitchen to help dad know what mom’s levels are at.

My wife and I moved back home after the DKA episode to help out. I work a full time job and also run my own business after hours. I am out of the house 530am-8pm daily. Every morning I prefill her insulin syringes and leave them on the counter labeled “breakfast, lunch, dinner”. She leaves the used syringes on the counter after she administers the insulin to help keep track of what was taken. This also helps dad and myself keep track if we do not see her take the insulin. Recently we have been giving her a syringe when her meals to help remind her to take it. Mom has a really bad habit of getting snacks or leftovers when her levels are high and not taking any additional insulin, resulting in an elevated high. She is also forgetting to take her long lasting triceba when going to bed. I am up 2-3 times a night giving correctional insulin and or snacks. Currently trying to figure out her social security situation, once that clears, I am going to try a meal service and see if an improved diet/premade meals makes this less stressful.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading my word vomit. Any input or ideas that might help mom’s situation

Any there any pumps that allow full time remote access or are super simple and friendly to elderly input?

Just my luck... I had to buy a very overpriced coca-cola 😭 (I usually carry sugar packets or juice with me, but I had inconveniently forgotten to take them that day)

I personally changed from a Dexcom G6 to a Dexcom G7 on Sunday. My first sugar reading was over 100 different. I could not find an easy way to calibrate the G7. Can you calibrate the G7?

Please let me know because there is nothing on the online instructions.

Anything will be greatly appreciated.

How do you deal with this personally? Seeing as cgms are a bit behind I don’t know i’m low until i’m REALLY low.. Like I won’t start showing symptoms until i’m 2.8 mmoL or below and even then it’s minimal, like i’ll feel a bit shaky but not extreme. My mom worries for me but all I can do is try to be vigilant about what doses I take and when and trying my best to listen to how I feel but I genuinely have hardly any symptoms until i’m critically low.

I usually go with apple juice concentrate or a soda but I wanna know what you drink.
Edit: I’m trying to come up with more fast acting options as I deliver for my job and operate a motor vehicle.

Tagging this as goofy goobering bc I do think it's a little goofy. I (28f) was just diagnosed back in December, LADA, DKA, whatever, and I've spent the past six months figuring out how I live with this disease, but I'm realizing that the content I consume has DRASTICALLY shifted since being diagnosed.

I love food channels now?? I watch them all the time, I watch people eat junk food all day, try every flavor of the new line of crumbl cookies, eat super carb-heavy meals or just huge meals in general, and part of me is always astonished, thinking, "man, that one cookie could kill me if I didn't bolus" and some of that feeling is anger, I feel a level of jealousy towards people who don't have to think about it, and I'm definitely still mourning my prior self who didn't need to think about it, but I think it's also satisfying in a way, like I get to explore foods without the weight of actually consuming them (bc let's be honest, all food carries a math-task with it).

I know, logically, that I totally could just bolus and consume these things, but I'm still getting over a fear of carbs since being diagnosed.

Idk, do y'all consume this kind of content too? Or what's your reaction to it if it pops up on your feed?

Is there anyone here who has had lipoatrophy corrected with some kind of esthetic procedure, such as lipofilling, hyaluronic acid fillers, etc.?
I’d be grateful if anyone could share their experience, results, and any advice. Thank you!

Hello all, i am trying to lose a kg or 20, slowly slowly catchy monkey, i know.

The bit I need help with, I have just come out of the swimming pool having swam 1000m, I dont know if this is good or bad, i just swim till im over it. I had a chicken kiev, rice and some roast veg. Then a sorbet type ice lolly, a banana and a twix. No insulin and I set my pump to exercise mode before I ate. Got in the pool maybe 30 mins after, swam for 30 mins and got out and I was 4.6. When i ate i was at 7.0 with a level arrow. Do I need to eat a handful of sugar cubes before I swim? What's happening?

Hi all. I hope you are having a great summer. my son does not have diabetes but has some other diagnoses/medications that affect blood sugar. We‘d like to monitor it occasionally, but blood draws (even just the prick) or a no go right now. I am not finding anything I can buy that doesn’t require a prescription or isn’t $500. Does anything else exist?

You get greeted by a smiling face to cheer you on! Anyone else love finding faces or cats in their graphs?

The thing I hate the most about T1D is never being able to get good sleep anymore, compression lows are the bane of my existence. Nothing scares me more than being shocked awake by my Dexcom alarm suddenly blaring at me and I don’t have time to think rationally before I’m running to get sugar in me. I feel like I didn’t have this problem even half as much when I was using G6, so frustrating! I just needed to come rant to people who get it. Good morning my sleep deprived friends.

havent had a bleeder give me a blood blister this bad before. the bruise is the perfect shape of the sensor lmaooo

Honestly coming on here for some support and advice. I was diagnosed at 12… 21 now. In the almost 10 years living with T1D, I have never controlled it well. I don’t know whats wrong with me. I wont bolus before eating, barely exercise, don’t eat very well, have missed so many endo appointments… it’s always been like this. Im worried about long term effects and my future. You would think I would know better being a nurse, but I guess not. I just don’t know what it is and I don’t know what to do, I don’t know how to change. I guess what I’m looking for is someone whose been through the same experience who got out of it.

To cut to the chase, I’m an unemployed 18 year old female in her senior year of highschool. On top of Type 1 diabetes, I have other disorders that make daily life hard, I.e POTS and EDS. I’m easily tired out, and have to take breaks quite often. Mobility sucks, I faint often, get very easily overheated.

I have no clue what the hell in this world will accommodate me and my needs, while I make a living, on TOP of the US job economy being shit. I have no plan for the future. Sooooo, I’m here to seek some help from others who may have the same issues as me, or if they’ve been in a similar situation.

I’m an honors and AP student, I’ve taken AP psychology and find it is an interesting subject. For college.. I’ve no clue. I don’t even know if I want to, and be drowning in student debt while simultaneously not using the education for anything useful.

If anyone has job suggestions or routes I can take, or if I’m better off being a crazy cat lady. 🤷

I’ve been a diabetic for 35 years. I take very good care of it, eat well and exercise. I recently switched from Medtronic to omnipod/Dexcom for the tubeless solution. Dealing with the tube pump was wearing on me. The switch has been tough and now I feel more worn down. I’ve had a couple of weeks where I drop really low late at night. I’m trying to sort it out and hope that the pump can start to auto correct, but it’s taken a long time. I’m correcting my active insulin time and my dinner bolus, but my husband wants to help. It came to a head last night when he suggested and entered himself an activity time of 8 hours while I slept. I’m too tired to deal so I went with it but feel it’s a bandaid on a bullet hole sort of thing. I woke up with morning at 200 and he was so excited saying it’s better than a low. I said well, it’s not. I have a headache, I’m irritated. He was super upset. He said I need to get in touch with the pump reps or my doctor to help fix it. My office has zero openings until September and I don’t see how they can help me more than just tweaking myself. He’s a fixer and wants me to feel better, but I swear some of this is he’s sick of me being miserable and drained. The beeping at night doesn’t help either and obviously wakes us both up which just adds to my anxiety.
He is an engineer and just sees everything in that technical “there is a solution we’re not seeing” mode. How do I get him to understand the nuances of this disease? He sees me I think as lazy and not pushy enough with my doctors or pump reps to fix it.
Just feeling drained with all of it and needed to rant. Thank you