#like people with diabetes do

[dreamswillbeyourwintermeat]

It's all fun and games until you become anemic and/or get an infection from cutting your hand open every other scene to prove you're not a changeling

[thealienmoth]

Sometimes you go "nyah!" As a tic and people are like "aw that's adorable, I wish I had tourettes!".

And then you tic "I SHAT on your pillow!" with the deepest gravely voice your body can produce and suddenly everyone is uncomfortable.

Please decide if my disability is desirable or not, I need to know what the value is for pricing.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Another weird question for you: How long do you have to fast for a blood sugar reading to count as a fasting blood sugar measurement? Also, does drinking soda (like, full sugar soda) slowly over the time before the blood test count as not-fasting? Asking because I keep testing* in the fasting blood sugar range when I am pretty sure I am not supposed to. Like, two hours after eating a meal when I've been slowly drinking soda the whole intervening time, or half an hour after drinking a whole full-sugar gatorade *with the home blood sugar test thing, not like doctor's office tests. though I test in the fasting range there too? I do know the word for the tester thing but I am brain fogged at the moment

[maximura]

[chococakeo]

hi

[moopbox]

do u ever feel alive but not...

like ur body is alright n stuff but ur mind...isn't... I don't FEEL alive... its like I'm distant from me... I'm not here... I can feel my limbs I can feel the blood going through me I can feel everything that I've ever hurt.. I can breathe...I can see.. i can write these words down....but I'm just not. just not here my head is fuzzy,parts of me hurt..idk..

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[queenzufufu]

To all those numpties that say Ed "goes on" about his diabetes all the time, the guy literally had a hypo on stage and only casually mentioned it in an insta story after the fact.

[blujayonthewing]

palestine fundraiser asks are NEVERRRRR SCAMS saying they MIGHT be SCAMS SOMETIMES is RACIST

[doctor-disc0]

Me googling "low blood sugar" only to find out that it is NOT common or normal for non-diabetic people to experience. I experience it somewhat frequently.

[startrekin-it]

Woke up last night with two hypos that i barely had the brain activity to fix, and i no longer own Jelly Babies. Desperately hoping we don’t have a repeat performance

[paranoidkid]

helppppp being disabled is so expensive fuuuck. i have like. an old insulin pump (~6 years old?) and my endocrinologist said I should get a newer model and the CGM that goes with it which runs in a loop, and that would be AMAZING for my blood sugar and keeping me a1c down but… out of pocket with the insurance I have right now (deductible not met) is $2,000 . and goddamn I do not have $2k . they have a payment plan but it’s like $50/mo for 4 years and I might die if I commit to that. but wouldn’t a new pump and cgm that work together be nice… on top of having a new service dog also??

just for the record at my current job I make $10/hr + tips and work ~25h/wk which obviously isn’t great and then I have to pay 525.60 to my dad for rent (cringe) and then leftover from that I have maybe $200 every two weeks to keep to myself but it doesn’t even keep to myself because I have a new puppy and I go to therapy and am disabled so I have doctors appointments and debts and it’s just like come ON man does everything have to be this expensive ???? why does my CGM sensor right now cost 37.99 a piece and my quarter yearly endo appointments cost $45 for just the appointment not including the debt I have accrued for the labs and other various testing that’s like $608 right now… ON TOP OF THE $1.4K DENTIST DEBT I HAVE ??!!?!? it’s over for me. fuck

[mikewanders]

[savetheghost]

theoretically

i could get a tramp stamp

[sucresanguine]

it is genuinely weird to me that diabetes (both type 1 and 2) rarely comes up in people's concept of disabilities, both as a visible and invisible one. Especially given that type 2 is relatively common, and that type 1 is imo very distinctively visible and often quickly physically disabling. Lots of medical equipment and lots of room for error with immediate physical consequences.

[lesbienneanarchiste]

I already decided I wasn't gonna even think abt that Dr anymore until monday but to get it off my chest, this man literally looked at me and decided to talk abt diabetes for 10 minutes and how I needed to cut down on carbs despite a) me having no history of insulin resistance or glucose issues, b) not asking me what/how I usually eat, and c) then when I went to get blood work done, guess whose a1c and blood glucose levels are completely normal??? It's almost like I don't have diabetes or smth 🤔 but drs see a fat person and insist on wasting my fuckin time. I was literally at that fucking office for 2.5 hours. I'm so pissed off abt this. I hope he dies.

[here-there-were-dragons]

as a general rule, on average, if americans consistently complain about a food being conceptually weird, gross, and scary, then it probably tastes amazing. or at least inoffensive.

this is because in my experience americans for the most part (give or take a few exceptions by region) think eating literally anything other than beef, chicken, bread, eggs, peanut butter jelly sandwitches, ketchup, and disgusting cloyingly artificial brown sludge soda is insurmountably weird, gross, and scary.