#cgm

[entropificiationer]

step 1: develop hyperfixation on coding with R

step 2: ??!!??!? (for three weeks straight)

step 3: fully interactive LCARS inspired website that does CGM analysis for the minuscule audience of diabetic star trek nerds

[moodyarchive]

guys…this song…is sooooo…

ashtons solo is sooooo…

[simswithdisability]

OMG! Look at these! Dexcom and Omnipod accessories for TS2 by cfranck8 on MTS.

As a diabetic who is currently wearing a Dexcom G6 (the one in the last two pics) this makes me so happy!

Get them here!

[kinkykinard]

do you ever have those days where you take your normal bolus for something and your body just like... forgets it's diabetic? and then you have to pound back juice box after juice box to save yourself because you're double arrows down with no end in sight?

no, just me?

[zurko48]

[yosweetandlow]

So it’s been 4 million years since I last posted but I’m so hyped about the Barbie movie I had to make myself as a T1D Barbie!

[ineedmydowntime]

Dora Voice: Can you say, Caballo?

[diabeticallyhere]

I'm very curious— please spread for a bigger reach, especially if you have a lot of type 1 mutuals!

[ask-sibverse]

So I saw this post the other day (and maybe because I've been diabetic a quarter of a century but "diabetes monitor" usually means this in my mind, not a sensor)

But anyways! Ink and T1D!Reader are friends with Sci who could definitely design a closed loop system for Ink! (For non diabetics, a closed loop system is a sensor and insulin pump that "talk to each other" to constantly dose and adjust in the background, allowing for better control and less frequent doses of insulin and less lows and yes I'm a Dexcom and Omnipod girlie)

[istormortis]

Chaotic Gore Magala adopt I have up on my twitter/TH/Bluesky! The auction ends on 9/25 at 2pm with a current bid of $150~ https://toyhou.se/23562719.flame-chaos-gore-magala-adopt

[anthonybaxindale]

[greencreeker]

My partner helped me apply my CGM and I was so surprised that it actually didn't hurt. I mean... I got a peek at the needle. I was fully expecting to feel something. Never been happier to be wrong!

[asteralpine]

This continuous glucose meter changed my life, man.

I was diagnosed relatively late for Type 1--at the very start of 9th grade (so I was like 14 or 15 years old). I was a gold-star diabetic patient for a few years: I tested all the time, I was dedicated to carb-counting, my A1c was pretty damn good. Every time I saw the doctor, she gushed with praise for me.

(Once, there was a nasty snowstorm on the same day that I had an appointment, and when my dad and I got there, the nurse told us that they'd been calling a lot of patients to cancel their appointments because of the weather, but they didn't want to cancel mine because they knew it'd be fantastic or something.)

But then other stuff happened (depression came rushing back) and I started to neglect that stuff. I didn't test very often, so I was mostly guessing about how much insulin to take, which made my numbers all fucky, which made me want to test even less because the highs felt like a failure, and so on.

And then CGMs. Once my depression and anxiety had been sort of dealt with (better living through chemistry!!), I brought up the idea to my doctor, and it only took a couple of months before I had my very own Dexcom. My A1c is in a good range now (at my last appointment, I was still in the habit of pushing praise aside, so when my doctor mentioned how good it was, I said "I know I can still get it lower" and she straight up said "Uhh, please don't. If we get much lower, it's going to be putting you in dangerously-low ranges for too long, and I don't like that") and I'm way less wound-up about what the numbers mean.

When I did finger-pricks with a regular glucose meter, I usually hesitated. In the few seconds before it showed the results, I would have to brace myself because ugggh it's going to be high because I'm the worst, but this morning I did a finger-prick and it was just...nothing.

I've still got a lot of work to do to get back into carb counting and doing better about exercise and making better snacky choices, but so much of the weight of diabetes has been eliminated just because my Dexcom has allowed (forced) me to be very familiar with my glucose levels on a constant basis. Wonderful!

[floralfairie]

Not to be dramatic, a debbie downer, and all that, but like, if I end up kicking the bucket because I can’t afford a new phone that supports my dexcom app (and lets face it, will transfer my info from one phone to the other and have decent storage), then I guess I’ll be leaving this plane which means I want you to think about something.

Sure MAYBE we can use meters to check our sugars but cgms help monitor them BETTER. Sure we don’t NEED phones but practically anything you do nowadays is tied to the internet, communication, etc, making phones essential.

If insulin becomes so expensive that the majority or diabetics cannot access it, there is a problem, and I want it to be fixed before I am gone.

Oh, and stop using cgms and insulin for “weight loss”. You insult every diabetic out here by flaunting how easily you, who doesn’t NEED such items to justify LIVE, can afford to buy and waste such materials like cgms and insulin, things that most of us have FOUGHT with insurance companies to get for YEARS, and still have to fight for everyday. If you’re concerned about your health, buy a $20 blood sugar meter and prick your fingers the old fashioned way, that we always did, or better yet, go to a doctor. But stop insulting us and justifying it as if *you* are so concerned about your health when we are out here struggling to just stay alive.

[type1thais]

Freshly changed CGM, I wear the Freestyle Libre.

[gtzgoblin]

Anyone in the diabetes community able to help with a dexcom issue? I'm running my alerts through x-drip ATM because they don't seem to be pinging properly. Sometimes are but it's only a one-off noise, most often it's only a single vibrate, sometimes they aren't showing at all (I was high for 4 hours the other night, didn't get an alert until two hours out of range, then obvs sugars were messed up for the entire day because of it after it took another 2 to drop down - and TBF highs aren't really that much of a worry, I don't want to miss hypos). I'm definitely not going to wake up for a weak vibrate, and I will probably (and probably have) just turn a single noise off and do nothing about it. I basically need the equivalent of an air raid siren to respond.

I've taken my phone off do not disturb and (the horror) put it on loud. Dexcom is set to always override so that shouldn't have mattered anyway but obvs now running the risk of being woken up 20x a night by alerts from other, usually silenced, apps. Tried turning all my other alerts off but it was painstaking and I still managed to miss a load (then fucked up my whatsapp in the process!)

I'm happy to continue running x-drip (though have some concerns about how well it's picking up the data/delays) but just wondering how everyone else manages? Is there a specific ring tone that keeps going? When you click okay on the alert does that make it go away forever? Should I be swiping to snooze? Like what the hell am I doing wrong?

Nothing I do seems to make the slightest bit of difference and it's very frustrating considering people have been raving about the system for years! Can't go back to libre because I need it for closed loop.

Also, on the subject, my x-drip gives me a numeric value in the top bar where dexcom is just a symbol and you have to expand to see the number. Any way dexcom does that? Should I just stop whinging and keep running x-drip because I know I like it? Lmao.