#T1Diabetes

[itsraining-honey]

hot opinions straight off the stove! 🥘🔥

[t1d-culture-is]

Type 1 diabetic culture is personifying your pump and cgm. every time their alarms go off i go "sorry, my wife is yelling at me" or "girl, calm down, ain't no one talkin to you"

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[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

yeah, diabetes sucks sometimes, but every once in a while I see someone in public with a dexcom or pump, and I point to my own, and despite being total strangers we have this mutual shared understanding that no one else gets, and it feels like a secret club that we’re in that no one else gets to be a part of

[couchcandy]

Self portrait 🤗🙃

[cameronmitchelljohn]

i just realised i ate a whole meal and didnt inject for it . fuck diabetes

[serotosin]

“ew you like diet pepsi?” I AM A TYPE ONE DIABETIC AND SOMETIMES I LIKE TO HAVE A LIL SODIE WITHOUT HAVING TO WASTE MY EXPENSIVE LIQUID THAT KEEPS ME ALIVE LEAVE ME ALONE

[izz83]

Has anyone else had problems with their Dexcom G7? Recently, they've been worse than Dexcom G6 is They have a really bad inaccurate readings they disconnect so easily along with other things I want to know if I'm the only ones struggling with this?



[imaginingmoonlight]

Sooo for those of you that don't know I have type 1 diabetes and I wear a dexcom (a lil thing with a filament that sits under my skin to measure my blood sugars). I just ran up the stairs and whacked it on a picture frame and it really hurt so I checked it and like- I ripped the whole thing out my arm?!?! Just had to put a new one on but I'm dreading tonight cos dex change nights always go really badly and I get no sleep AND I HAVE A GCSE PAPER TOMORROW. So that's super fun 😻

[pale-pastel-girl]

i really think us t1d’s need to invent a new word for the feeling of low blood sugar hunger because ravenous still does not get the point across. blood sugar at 59? i am going to eat the fucking sun.

[blank-between-parentheses]

The problem with sensors only for a t1d... This is my second example and while the difference isn't as extreme, it is still a big problem.

It's early morning. My sensor woke me up with some beeping to tell me I'm 67. As I'm getting up, I notice I feel WAY weaker than I should for 67, so I do a bloodtest.

38. Oh. Well.

Some people don't wake up from numbers like these. These are the numbers where people have seizures. These are the numbers where people wake up so confused they can't even figure out how to eat. (Let me tell you how hard it was to type this and proofread...) A sensor should never have let me get this low. A sensor being off by this much matters when you're low.

T1d SHOULD NOT be on a sensor alone. Calibrate that shit.

Edit: Imagine treating this like a 67. XD But also, thank bob it beeped at me.

[itsraining-honey]

its the second anniversary of my type 1 diabetes diagnosis.

i know i dont NEED to write these out, who wants to relive bad experiences, right? i like writing these because i can reflect back on the two years ago today when i was in the hospital and see how much i've grown from then.

this happened way before i've gained new friends and followers, many are in the dark of what happened. short story, i was sick and now have a life long condition.

its extremely serious. everyone hears diabetes and goes "its all that sugar". in some cases but not all. well, now i NEED all that sugar to live.

two years ago, the week of halloween, i was extremely sick. i didn't know why. i thought i had gotten COVID at first but i realized it wasn't really a respiratory problem so the next conclusion was the flu.

unbeknownst to myself, my mother, and brother, i was dying for a whole week. my pancreas failed, shut down and i was dying. my bathroom floor would have been where i died if i never went to the hospital. on november 1st, i was told what was happening to me. i was in DKA and needed to go to the ER immediately.

i had no idea what DKA was. for those who don’t know, it stands for diabetic ketoacidosis. i was mostly throwing up, trying to rest (which i hadn't for an entire week/ ended up hallucinating on halloween night after everyone went to bed which i find highly ironic lol), and drinking up as much water i could.

my stay in the hospital was filled with agony, lessened from the medications and insulin they gave me. at that point, i also found out i had air in my chest due to a hole in my esophagus from throwing up constantly and violently. it was scary.

at some point, i knew i was gonna die. i was scared at first. my mom had me shower and i couldn't even move. i couldn't get up. i was so shaky and light (again, ironic since im a fat girl). when i was in the shower, i sobbed and sobbed over the past. my relationship with my father, my friends and my family. i couldn't take it.

when we got to the hospital, i accepted i was gonna die. i was so sure of it. and then i didn't. i survived and i am continuing to survive. no matter how high my blood sugar will spike from eating or when i'm fixing a low, i think back to that week and think about how proud i am.

there are points i want to give up. throw the towel in and throw away my insulin, my CGMS, my pumps, all of it. i want to give up all the time. i want to stop taking insulin and just be normal, like i used to be. now having this condition, i don't want to be normal anymore. it took me a long time to accept my diabetes, it's apart of me now and i've learned it up and down, side to side and in reverse.

no one understands diabetes like someone with diabetes and even then, everyone else's diabetes is different. somedays are bad, somedays are good.

i'm happy to be alive. i'm happy to be online and still making art, listening to new albums, reading comics, making new friends on tumblr and twitter, seeing my oomfs talk about huntress or just their interests in general.

i am SO happy to be here and experience my life past 17. i'm 19 now and got to experience halloween and fall again for the second time without dying. so thats cool :D

thank you for reading and being here along with me on my journey, my friends💜

[t1d-culture-is]

t1d culture is saying "wanna see a really cool rollercoaster??" to your non-t1d friends and then showing them your cgm graph thingy

me but saying "I have such a cool pic of the mountains" instead..... /light-hearted

[sail-away-to-space]

This is a really good day (blood glucose wise) for me. This is not an easy task tbh.

Flat lines are for dead people & that applies to many aspects of my life, ups and downs, again and again.

[audiovideodisco]

TRANS, DISABLED, ND, CHRONICALLY ILL REQ FOR ASSISTANCE

hey i’m max, i am a multiply disabled queer who is really struggling right now with my worsening condition and mobility, my health, and dysphoria

i’m looking to fundraise towards wheelchair costs (either the chair itself and the all terrain power wheels, or if i’m lucky and the nhs will fund it, just the wheels. i’m not holding out hope because they denied me a disabled permit based on my weight which is irrelevant to WHY i applied, and is also not remediable due to my pain and risk of dislocating, the reason i applied…)

injection ports for my insulin as sensory issues prevent me from injecting and it’s damaging my health

for chest reduction, i don’t want a full double mastectomy as i am enby and genderfluid, but my chest is very large, causes me medical issues also and is causing deep dysphoria, body disconnect, and depression. i have had to refrain from,, **removing** them myself

gender care service to access testosterone, safely alongside my multiple conditions, but also discreetly due to living at home still and not having support in my trans identity

i will need home adaptations when i move out, meaning i can’t rent and so i want to save money to place a deposit on an accessible home and adaptive changes

these are listed in priority, the top two being my main priorities as my health is in danger.

any help is greatly appreciated, reblogs and comments too.

my paypal is below thank you 🫶🫶

[poketriodrawsstuff]

Omg… Bi Pride with ME!! Yeah who’da thunk LMAO Presenting my new lil persona too!