#what is type 1 diabetes

[diabetes-health-corner]

Type 1 Diabetes: Symptoms, Causes and treatment - FFD

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces very little to no insulin. Type 1 diabetes (aka, juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes), usually develops in children, young adults and teens. It can happen at any age. Type 1 diabetes is less common than type 2. Only 5-10% of people with diabetes have type 1.

Read the full blog to know more: https://www.freedomfromdiabetes.org/blog/post/type-1-diabetes-symptoms-causes-and-treatment-ffd/2801

[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

[thedeafprophet]

Sometimes I'm just hit with how much stuff we have support for medically these days would be a death sentence in the past

[seagullcharmer]

too late to say goodbye

[t1d-culture-is]

T1D culture is...

having days where it doesn't matter what you eat, your blood sugar is okay. and it feels like your body decided to be normal for once

[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.

[cometrose]

I'm scared.

me too!!! but i am going to keep hoping for the best! Every day! I am too spiteful to give up before that orange clown and his ugly bug he calls a vp kick the bucket! I am going to keep living my life and keep fighting for what's right.

It's okay to be scared but you're not alone! Don't give up!

[sunshine-and-sprinkles]

My blood sugar has been consistently spiking around 8:30-9:00pm for the last week (at least??) and I keep thinking my pump would for sure have recognized and adjusted for that by now but it just keeps happening 😫 I’m doing really well mental-health-wise not having to micro-manage my blood sugar but I was doing a lot better numbers-wise when I was!

[small-strong-bookish-butch]

Haha time flies when you're a chronically ill adult and have a job and don't sleep enough, and at least half of your friends are also Having A Bad Time at the moment, and the days stack on top of each other like junk mail you can't sort through too closely

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

Happy National Diabetes Awareness Month! Diabetes ask game (you don’t have answer anything you don’t want to)

What type of diabetes do you have?

How old were you when you were diagnosed?

When’s your dia-versary?

What’s you’re diagnosis story?

How do you explain diabetes to little kids?

Do you have an insulin pump/and or continuous glucose monitor?

What’s you’re favorite thing to eat when you’re low?

What’s the lowest your blood sugar has ever been?

What’s the highest your blood sugar has ever been?

What’s do you hate most about having diabetes?

What’s the hardest thing about having diabetes?

Feel free to add on!

[beautyandthebetes]

Magic pill update

In my last post I talked about a drug that’s in the trial phases that aims to allow the beta cells of type one to start producing their own insulin again. At that time I had just signed up for it after speaking with a friend who works at the clinical research center near me.

I went in two weeks ago for the preliminary screening. It was mostly just a bunch of questions to review my medical history, and they also did an ekg and took more blood than I’ve ever given outside of donating blood (22 vials!)

Last week I got a call that my c peptide was “too high” with a result of >0.02 (???) so they needed to bring me in for a test where I’d be fasting, they’d give me food without insulin, and track my response in real time via cgm and blood samples. That was supposed to happen this morning.

Unfortunately I got the call yesterday that I am disqualified from the study because I have Gilbert’s Syndrome - my liver doesn’t properly process bilirubin, so it’s always too high. It doesn’t affect my health, just makes me a touch jaundiced sometimes, but there’s not treatment to bring it down. Because this trial drug may affect liver function, they decided to take me out of the running.

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed - I really wanted to be part of what seems to be an amazing research opportunity, regardless of it I got the placebo or if it worked. That being said, if you want to keep track of it, you can find updates at this website as they come out:

[architectureenthusiast]

Everytime my sensor alarm goes off I get filled with indescribable rage.

Like shut the fuck up why are you making noise I will look when I care to or when it's convenient to me 😭

Why are you so obsessed with me 😭

[can-of-pringles]

My parents when I changed my site completely by myself without my mom in the room

[arionawrites]

decided to make a list of all my diagnosed issues and like fucking. god damn. how am i just living day to day.

[t1d-culture-is]

T1D culture is needing special testing accommodations to take a test with your insulin pump (because it... could... be used to cheat??)

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[britneyshakespeare]

when i worked at an after school program. i know i start stories like this all the time but i have to say that was the most exciting and entertaining job i ever had. so anyway when i worked at an after school program. there was this one kindergarten girl who joined a little later into the school year. she was ADORABLE. i would tell stories about this girl to my family all the time. when she was new and i was trying to integrate her w some of the other kids in her age group i was following her, watching her playing, and playing w the other kids. another reason this was the Best job ever is i got to play w kids all the time. god.

but anyway i was walking inside w her as the sun started to go down and she said "i think one of the girls from after care is your friend" (i don't know which girl in particular she meant bc a lot of the young ones really liked me) and i said "i'm friends with EVERYONE from after care" and she just had the most adorable little *gasp* "even me?"

sometimes when i see smth nice i still say to myself *gasp* even me?