#fuck diabetes

[diavolaangelica]

I just realized I didn't eat dinner. I'm not even hungry. Not even a little bit... but I am diabetic, so I have to make myself eat something... because the fasting period from my last meal of the day, to the first meal of the day, is about 12 hours. I take insulin, so eating is non-negotiable. Such bullshit... My dad is diabetic too.

[guhmshuda]

need to have a rasgulla or gulab jamun or heck, even a ladoo just stuffed in my mouth pls.

[savingmyvaginity]

My libre went off all fucking day long up and down up and down. I love the sun but at what cost???

[sail-away-to-space]

As a diabetic (type 1, which is a vastly different beast than the old/fat type 2):

This is a constant source of anxiety, do I feel bad cause my blood sugar is high? Low? Is my heart racing cause my blood sugar is high/low or I'm only nervous.

Am I cranky just because I'm human or is my blood poisoning me today?

[postbluevoidedbaby]

EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY

My sleep VS CGM

[everythingisahoax]

Endocrinologists when your blood sugar is constantly running over 200: (sound of crickets chirping)

Endocrinologists when your blood sugar occasionally goes under 60 for a few minutes each month: "OMG WTF ARE YOU TRYING TO FUCKING KILL YOURSELF JESUS CHRIST YOU NEED TO CUT YOUR DOSES IN HALF NOW!"

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I'm all for natural remedies and traditional medicine, but I think when your "natural remedy" is based on the idea that water can become medicinal by being in the presence of a teeny itty bit amount of something, then it's probably bullshit and you're getting scammed. Go buy some ibuprofen or see a doctor.

[theoscout]

[swordsandholly]

There’s a smoothie place near where my wife works called Nutrition Smoothie and if you look inside it’s “open”, but there are no smoothie machines and you never see anybody in there except sometimes maybe one guy behind the counter. We have a running gag about what would happen if you tried to go in and actually order something bc it’s so obviously a front.

Anyway, thinking about mafia au!Simon being on counter duty and reader coming in and trying to order something and he’s just staring, mind boggled that she doesn’t notice the obvious lack of smoothie paraphernalia.

[crippled-peeper]

The thing about disability being a social construct is largely true, because when you have a physical issue but receive accommodations + care such that they can do everything able-bodied people can, you're no longer considered disabled. Case in point: glasses. If glasses fix near-blindness, you're not considered disabled, even though you're basically blind without them.

In a hypothetical world where mech suits existed, were cheap and comfortable and accessible and worked well, and were normalised such that people didn't even notice, even quadreplegics wouldn't be considered disabled (although of course that's distant science fiction).

That's what "disability is a social construct" means. In the same way gender being a social construct doesn't mean boobs aren't real, or money being a social construct doesn't mean physical cash doesn't exist.

I don’t agree with this analysis at all.

What hypothetical disabled people might be able to do in the future holds no meaning in the current reality I occupy

You say that quadriplegics will be “considered” abled with exoskeletons - but then you fail to elaborate on the relationship between these devices, their users, and the people who supply them

My father has had type 1 diabetes for 30 years. 30 years is an entire lifetime for some people. The cost of his insulin increased literally that ENTIRE TIME until last year when the Biden admin put caps on insulin prices

Furthermore, his insulin pump retails for 4,600$, and if it breaks, he is still diabetic at the end of the day and will slowly and terribly die without it.

I noticed a lot of people on here have lots of ideas and hypotheticals about how disabled people should and could navigate the world, but their arguments fall flat and topple so easily because you’re not connecting these ideas to anyone’s intrinsic reality

This is why so many physically disabled people are fatigued by the entire “disability is a social construct” conversation. It’s overwhelmingly used by uneducated 17 year olds to minimize and downplay and discredit the real-life, life-or-death interactions and experiences many physically disabled people live with

[platossoulmates]

hyper fixation too strong… life going too well… may have to pick up the pen and go back to ao3

[fetching-sketching]

begging on my hands and knees for medical articles to specify what type of diabetes they're talking about in the headline. please please please

[imaginespazzi]

No but my favorite is the KK live where you can hear Paige yelling. “AZZI, AZZI” her gentle reply and then P’s “WHaT the Hel-“

Princess really do be long suffering and it’s so freakin cute. Free Azzi indeed 😆😆😆

They’re the perfect foils for each other. Can’t wait to see them grow old together. 🥹

Awwwwie same that's my favorite live too I think. We got so many crumbs in that one and ah I miss those days. She was so desperate for Azzi's attention that night and princess was busy getting her good grades.

THEY MAKE ME SICK

[niuniente]

Me: Doctor, I need help. I've got a severe anemia and I have tried all iron supplements available in this country in the past 3 years but I can't digest any of them. Not even the mild 18mg iron ones. They give me a food poisoning. What should I do? Doctor: I see. Let's take a blood test to see your iron levels. Me: Thank you. Doctor, 2 weeks later: Your blood tests are here. You have a severe anemia. Your iron level is 9. Me: Yes, I know. Doctor: You are to take 100mg iron every day for 6 months. Me: What? Doctor: Or if you get an upset stomach, then every other day. Me: What part of "I have a severe anemia and I can't digest any iron supplements" did you miss?

[sprinkleofquirk]

I’m so tired of being honest about my pain level and having no one believe me because I don’t show pain the way they expect

[haydenthewitch]

The worst thing about having a chronic pain that isn't visible to others is feeling like your whining when you say, "i'm in pain right now."

i don't ever want the pain in my knees to be categorized as the same kind of complaint as "i don't want to go to work" or "its monday." I say "my knees and joints are hurting" every day because 1. my knees and joints do hurt everyday, and it fucking sucks and 2. i want to be heard by the pepole around me saying that i'm in pain so i can never be gaslit by myself, my family, or my doctor that i'm "not in enough pain".

but when i say "i'm in a lot of pain right now" and then continue to live my life (becuse i can't sit around all day, as much as i want to) pepole assume that i'm okay enough, so therfore it's not that bad. "i'm in a lot of pain" becomes just another mundane complaint.

the thing is; my pain tollerance is HIGH. i don't talk about it much on here, But i'm a type one diabetic and i have been that way since i was SIX YEARS OLD. i've been sticking myself with needles, pricking my fingers to draw blood, dealing with insulin and medical supplies since i was six. i know my body better than most 18 year olds do, so when i say that recently i've been a 9 on the 1-10 pain scale evry day for the past couple of months I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

When i say "my joints hurt", i mean that i can FEEL bones grinding and clicking against one another. When i say "i've been sitting for too long and now my hips are fucked" i mean that walking becomes diffucuclt for me and sometimes i have to hobble down the school halways like how my grandmother walks. when i say "my knees are in pain" i mean that it feels like a liquid hot, searing pain in my joints that feels like a poker melting my skin off. WHEN I SAY I'M IN PAIN, IT'S NOT A MUNDANITY, ITS EXCUTRIATING AND I WISH I WOULD BE TAKEN SEROUISLY.

I cant stand for a 10 minute conversation, my knees would buckle. I might need a bench in my shower, becuse for the past few weeks i've been sitting in my shower floor to shampoo and conditon my hair. I can't sit criss-cross anymore or it will fuck up my entire day. I've resorted to taking a bathroom break in every single class every day so i can stand up becuse if i sit for longer than 30 minutes in one of those school desks every joint in my lower back and spine and legs starts screaming at me. i only feel comfortable laying down, fully stretched out, on my back. If i sleep wrong, i'm in pain from the molment i wake up.

ITS NOT A FUCKING COMPLAINT OR EXCUSE WHEN I SAY I'M IN PAIN. ITS MY LIFE.