#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

[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!

[zurko48]

[trek-tracks]

Tired: I have a giant horrible bruise because my diabetes tech/CGM tried to murder me again.

Wired: I've been gored by the Continuous Glucose Minotaur

[dearcervus]

I had to change my CGM today and it's always so scary. I wish I had someone to reassure me and remind me to take deep breaths while they prepped the area with gentle gloved hands. Sigh

-🩰

I’m sorry my dear… I’m sure that’s tough. I’d love to gently reassure you and have you sit in my lap while I prep everything… just gently loving on you and praising you while I clean off an area for the monitor. Distracting you with soft kisses all over your face while I attach it. Making sure you don’t need to worry about a single thing 🖤

[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)

[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💜

[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!

[fatgirlgetsfitatlast]

2/21/24 PlyoJam, Strength and stretch

Today was 45 minutes of cardio, a shorter strength session (15 mins), then 30 or so stretching.

Blood sugar does not come down during exercise, it seems, but after, which Dr. Google says is normal... 🤷‍♀️ Mine seems to go up during sleep, which makes sense, I guess, cos I eat my main meal in the evening... maybe I should go for a walk after dinner or something to reduce that impact?

[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.