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me sitting in my warm comfy bed with a sugar of probably 50 at this point:

if youre ever going low but think "hmm i'm too lazy to go eat something maybe it'll go away in a couple minutes" dont listen. thats the devil talking

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EVERYONE FUCK OFF THEY ADDED CGMS TO SIMS 4

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for diabetics who want to bolus for all this vanilla extract going around

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the feeling when you can finally see numbers on your readings again after bolusing for hours >>

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if youre ever going low but think "hmm i'm too lazy to go eat something maybe it'll go away in a couple minutes" dont listen. thats the devil talking

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Disabled people are allowed to be pissed. Disabled people are allowed to be negative, angry, bitter. Abled people lament and complain about the hands they're dealt all the time. Disabled people have no more obligations than abled people to be always positive and looking for the bright sides.

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as a physically disabled person I'm used to people only noticing accessibility issues if they break their leg or are otherwise temporarily disabled. so this disability pride month I'm proud to be partnering with this baseball bat...

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happy disability pride month :) i'd like to give a quick shoutout 2:

people who know they have something going on physically but don't know exactly what it is

people who know they have something going on mentally but don't know exactly what it is

people who feel like they're not disabled enough to "count"

people who feel like they're "too disabled"

people who just realized they're disabled

people who are working through internalized ableism

you're cool, you're great, you belong, have a good month

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fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

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signs your blood sugar is off (even if you’re not consciously aware of it):

(Disclaimer: these are all personal experience things that tend to eventually tip me off to my numbers being off. Not everyone experiences all of these, or feels them the same way, etc. Add on if you want!)

You feel like you want to do something, but nothing feels like what you want to do

Feeling like you can’t concentrate on anything for a long period of time, or that you have to keep bringing yourself back to it and it takes ‘longer than it should’

Fast heart rate even though you don’t feel anxious about anything specific

Feeling worried about if you gave enough insulin

Feeling irritated/frustrated/on edge even though there isn’t a specific thing you’re frustrated about

Wanting to check blood sugar but also being scared/anxious/actively avoidant of it (“it won’t be fasting so it’s not worth doing a blood sugar, I should just wait another hour to *really* know”, etc)

Noticing more tension in your body (I clench my jaw for a long time, and furrow my brows)

Food and water both sound very appealing or nauseating (for me, I tend to want really sweet or carby things when I’m really high, and feel sick about it because I can’t/shouldn’t eat anything carby at the moment)

Body temperature feels really off (I tend to feel really hot) and skin can be clammy

Sensory overwhelm with like everything

Actively looking for a bathroom, if you’re out in public/feeling anxious that you can’t find one

Saliva tastes sweet and/or sour, and almost paste-y, like there’s not enough of it

This post was brought to you by a lot of high numbers over the last weekish! Please take care of your numbers sooner rather than later, being high is so shitty

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Friendly reminder that:

Young people can have arthritis too.

There are hundreds of life long conditions and diseases out there that are typically diagnosed between 12 and 30.

There is a vast difference between being tired and having chronic fatigue.

Just because you can’t tell that someone is unwell from looking at them, doesn’t mean that you should assume that they are ok.

Many chronic illnesses are life long, and incurable. Many of them are potentially fatal.

If you have a disease like Lupus, on good days you still feel like you have a bad flu, 24/7.

Many of the medications used to treat chronic conditions have side effects that can really affect someone’s self esteem - like extreme weight gain, skin changes and hair loss.

Most chronic illnesses have very little awareness - its unlikely that you’ve heard of Sjogren’s Syndrome, Scleroderma, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or Fibromyalgia.

However these diseases can cause symptoms as varied as joint pain, fatigue, constant nausea, kidney failure, pneumonia, photo sensitivity, full body rashes, paralysis, strokes etc.

So please remember that invisible illnesses exist too :)

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11 January 1922 – insulin was first used in a human to treat diabetes  

In January 1922, Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old boy dying from type 1 diabetes, became the first person to receive an injection of insulin. Within 24 hours, Leonard’s dangerously high blood sugar levels dropped, but he developed an abscess at the site of the injection and still had high levels of ketones.  

Collip worked day and night on purifying the extract even further, and Leonard was given a second injection on 23 January 1922. This time it was a complete success and Leonard’s blood sugar levels become near-normal, with no obvious side effects. For the first time in history, type 1 diabetes was not a death sentence.

Source : Diabetes UK Website

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love that feeling when youre drinking juice straight from the bottle not knowing exactly how much you actually just drank. will i overbolus and go low? will i not bolus enough and go high? who knows? not me thats for sure

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I have no idea what to say beyond "disabled people are going to be disproportionately effected by the banned tags"... There's no "aha!" moment or long explanation, it's just a sentence that should be read as a plain fact:

disabled people are going to be disproportionately effected by the banned tags, and disabled people already are being disproportionately effected by the banned tags.

It is just a fact.