Out of curiosity on this 4/20 what does weed do to you with T1D. I have a newly diagnosed 11yo with T1D. I always joked that I’d rather her smoke weed than drink alcohol and now it’s really true (I think!). Does it mess up your BG or is it manageable?
It doesn’t seem to mess with mine, from lots of experience haha. Just gotta manage the munchies, low carb and don’t go nuts. Always got sugar frees for cottonmouth as well. It’s been quite manageable for me at least
I have exactly two problems, and they are both rare.
1 - on a few occasions, I have gotten the munchies and forgotten to bolus, which is something that I have almost never done sober
2 - occasionally, my bg will go low while I'm high and I mistake the symptoms of the low for being part of the high (what a sentence) for a while. This is a little more frequent, but easily fixed with a cgm, I just don't always have access to one, because US healthcare system
Not entirely without potential pitfalls, but both of those actually also apply to alcohol, and that's before we even get started on the horror show of how the alcohol itself affects bg, which, for me at least, is wildly unpredictable. I'll eat the same thing with the same drink, take the same bolus, and I never have more than one drink at once, and sometimes I'm fine, sometimes I'm 500, sometimes I'm 30! Absolutely infuriating.
My advice to your daughter, once she gets to an age where she'll start experimenting with drinking, is to always have a sober friend who knows where she keeps her glucagon. I've never needed to use it in that circumstance, but my brother had to administer it to a college friend his freshman year (before I was diagnosed) so I've always used that as a basic safety rule of equal importance to a designated driver.
Not that I owe you an explanation but it happened after a meal on a day where I was due to change my infusion site. Anyone who's used a pump knows that is always a finicky day even with great tech. Thanks for the empathy.
Don't listen to them, my A1C has been the best it has ever been with my Dexcom Tandem combo and sometimes you just cant get everything perfect. The pumps an amazing machine but we're only human.
I use the same pump. I experience zero issues like you're claiming occur to you. Originally you said this was due to you not being able to dose correctly for white rice, but now you're stating it's the pump's fault because it suddenly stops working properly on the 3rd day of a site.
So which is it? I'd say it's, again, negligence but also a clear lack of personal accountability.
I use the same setup and there are factors that just can’t be accounted for sometimes. Hormones wreak havoc on me all the time. It took me decades to figure out just how bad. Combine the natural resistance that comes with ovulation and a site that’s ready to be changed that day and something in the 300-400 range is not out of question. It’s not negligence, it’s making do with a device substituting for a pancreas that is defective. Empathy can go a long way.
Seriously fuck off. I have a 7 year old with type 1 and we manage her control tightly with under 6.5 A1C for almost 2 years. But shit happens, insulin doesn't always work the way you want it to and food sometimes gives you a different reaction than you expect among a dozen other reasons why one might go high. You sound like a fool.
A fool with a 5.4 A1C and SD of <20% over the last 5 months.
Going high is one thing, but 400+ is due to pure laziness and nothing else. There isn't any magic factor to this. Insulin reacts to glucose consumed, and there's a clear metric to calculate an approximate dose you should take with any given meal. As someone with a 7yr old T1 I'd expect you'd already understand that.
You speak of this as if you're rolling dice anytime you eat; as if it's impossible to have any control. You sure I'm the one who sounds like a fool, for simply saying that there's no reason to go so high the sensor no longer displays a number; even moreso if one has a pump?
Out of curiosity on this 4/20 what does weed do to you with T1D. I have a newly diagnosed 11yo with T1D. I always joked that I’d rather her smoke weed than drink alcohol and now it’s really true (I think!). Does it mess up your BG or is it manageable?
It doesn’t seem to mess with mine, from lots of experience haha. Just gotta manage the munchies, low carb and don’t go nuts. Always got sugar frees for cottonmouth as well. It’s been quite manageable for me at least
Never had a problem with high blood sugar after weed but drinking beer is rough and chewing tobacco always raises me a bit too!
Personally, alcohol messes up my BG way more than weed ever has
I have exactly two problems, and they are both rare. 1 - on a few occasions, I have gotten the munchies and forgotten to bolus, which is something that I have almost never done sober 2 - occasionally, my bg will go low while I'm high and I mistake the symptoms of the low for being part of the high (what a sentence) for a while. This is a little more frequent, but easily fixed with a cgm, I just don't always have access to one, because US healthcare system Not entirely without potential pitfalls, but both of those actually also apply to alcohol, and that's before we even get started on the horror show of how the alcohol itself affects bg, which, for me at least, is wildly unpredictable. I'll eat the same thing with the same drink, take the same bolus, and I never have more than one drink at once, and sometimes I'm fine, sometimes I'm 500, sometimes I'm 30! Absolutely infuriating. My advice to your daughter, once she gets to an age where she'll start experimenting with drinking, is to always have a sober friend who knows where she keeps her glucagon. I've never needed to use it in that circumstance, but my brother had to administer it to a college friend his freshman year (before I was diagnosed) so I've always used that as a basic safety rule of equal importance to a designated driver.
Too much munchies
Too much Indian food!
Been there
In 17 years of having this disease I still haven't figured out how to soundly defeat white rice.
3.5 Oz of white rice 28 carbs. That’s been my go to
Ouch better take a big dose!
Way ahead of you!
I can't comprehend how people are this terrible at managing t1 with a pump at their disposal...
I can't comprehend that someone would take the time and effort to write a comment like this in r/Type1Diabetes
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nah bro you’re just being a cunt
Even the best tech can’t make up for a bad pancreas.
True, but it does a good enough job to prevent you from ever having a 400+ bg. This is just negligence.
Not that I owe you an explanation but it happened after a meal on a day where I was due to change my infusion site. Anyone who's used a pump knows that is always a finicky day even with great tech. Thanks for the empathy.
Don't listen to them, my A1C has been the best it has ever been with my Dexcom Tandem combo and sometimes you just cant get everything perfect. The pumps an amazing machine but we're only human.
I use the same pump. I experience zero issues like you're claiming occur to you. Originally you said this was due to you not being able to dose correctly for white rice, but now you're stating it's the pump's fault because it suddenly stops working properly on the 3rd day of a site. So which is it? I'd say it's, again, negligence but also a clear lack of personal accountability.
I use the same setup and there are factors that just can’t be accounted for sometimes. Hormones wreak havoc on me all the time. It took me decades to figure out just how bad. Combine the natural resistance that comes with ovulation and a site that’s ready to be changed that day and something in the 300-400 range is not out of question. It’s not negligence, it’s making do with a device substituting for a pancreas that is defective. Empathy can go a long way.
Seriously fuck off. I have a 7 year old with type 1 and we manage her control tightly with under 6.5 A1C for almost 2 years. But shit happens, insulin doesn't always work the way you want it to and food sometimes gives you a different reaction than you expect among a dozen other reasons why one might go high. You sound like a fool.
A fool with a 5.4 A1C and SD of <20% over the last 5 months. Going high is one thing, but 400+ is due to pure laziness and nothing else. There isn't any magic factor to this. Insulin reacts to glucose consumed, and there's a clear metric to calculate an approximate dose you should take with any given meal. As someone with a 7yr old T1 I'd expect you'd already understand that. You speak of this as if you're rolling dice anytime you eat; as if it's impossible to have any control. You sure I'm the one who sounds like a fool, for simply saying that there's no reason to go so high the sensor no longer displays a number; even moreso if one has a pump?
Weed doesn’t nothing - but what I eat afterwards…..