#cgm

[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

[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

[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!

[diabeticallyhere]

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

[cyborg-empress]

A Type One Diabetic's List of No-Nos for Non-Diabetics

This is a guide for non-diabetics to better understand what NOT to do when interacting with type 1 diabetics. This is meant for educational purposes and is based on my opinion and experience. If any T1Ds want to add their own suggestions, feel free!

(Note: The things on this list probably somewhat apply to type two diabetics too, I just have no experience with that so I can't comment.)

Dear non-diabetics, please:

Don't make insensitive jokes. Saying stuff about "getting diabeetus" because you're eating too much junk food is really annoying and simply not how it works. Yes, my friends and I make dumb diabetes jokes, but that's because they've talked to me and know I enjoy specific types of jokes.

Don't act like it's my fault/choice. I didn't get diabetes because I did anything wrong. Nothing about my lifestyle caused me to get diabetes. I was born with it. Implying otherwise really pisses me off, especially if you act like somehow I deserve this.

Don't touch my tech. Please don't touch any of my diabetes technology without my permission. It's literally attached to me!

Don't ask for/steal my food. I'm totally open to sharing snacks, but not after I've counted the carbs and not if I'm eating it because I'm low! In other words, I might need that food for my health, so please don't take it!

Don't pity me and treat me like I'm less capable. I'm not. I can do everything you can do. Yes, the disease sucks. I appreciate empathy and you can totally be mad at it with me, but please, no pity. Just be understanding if I'm struggling or having a bad diabetes day.

Don't compare the things I don't eat because of my diabetes to your voluntary diet. When I say that I don't drink full sugar pop (unless I'm low) telling me that "you understand, you're not drinking it either because you're trying to lose weight" isn't helpful. I totally understand that you're trying to sympathize, but it makes me really frustrated because you get a choice and I don't, so it's not the same in the slightest.

Don't call diabetics "Cyborgs" unless you have their permission or they call themselves that. It's a common label because many diabetics have technology attached to them to help them manage their diabetes, making them, technically, part machine like a cyborg. Some diabetics feel like it's dehumanizing and makes them feel different and disrespected. Others, like myself, (it's literally in my username) fully embrace the title as an excellent and fun part of their identity. Make sure that you know how someone feels before you call them that!

Don't be afraid to ask polite questions! As long as it's not the only thing you ever talk to me about, I'm totally happy to answer questions about my diabetes. There is a lot of misinformation and misunderstandings out there and I would love to try and clear it up and share accurate information!

I'm sure there is way more I'm not thinking of at the moment, but the baseline is: be kind! Being diabetic isn't easy, but interacting with kind people makes it better.

Thank you so much for reading!

[small-strong-bookish-butch]

Me: I've treated all my food so well so far! What if... I deserve a little treat :) with more insulin, too, but—

My CGM, trending up:

[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?

[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💜

[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!

[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.

[everydayesterday]

I do wonder about the utility of a cgm if: 1) it dies before its 14-day period is up (sometimes within 24 hours); 2) it has continual sensor errors that prevent it showing any reading at all; 3) compression lows due to sleeping position, even though there's only one approved location on your body for it—alarms blaring (with no volume control) because of inaccurate readings in the middle of the night—and once it's there, you can't move it for the 14-day period, so are you going to be dealing with false lows for 2 weeks?

it feels like more hassle than it's worth. how the fuck did this thing get approved for use?