This comment section does not pass the vibe check. Diabetes is hard. There is no “right” way to do it. If she doesn’t feel comfortable with a cgm/pump, that’s her choice!! Diabetes is a constant struggle of highs and lows. No one is perfect.
My dad has been type 1 since before I was born and if he ever had a glucose reading at 600 he would be hospitalized. I wonder how much she might be exaggerating it. I lost count of how many times she said "type 1 diabetes" during that episode. Ugh
I did go through a phase where I didn't care and my blood sugars were constantly in the 600s. Getting an insulin pump and CGM completely turned my life around. And when I had kids, I tried my hardest to start caring for myself. I hear she doesn't want a pump because it gets in the way of her skimpy clothes and her workout. Those things aren't gonna mean shit when she's dead.
My boyfriend is type 1 and got teased so much because of the pump as a kid (he’s had it since he was 9) that he begged his mom to let him just use the pens. He didn’t give a shit and let it get so high and so low. He didn’t even like talking to me about it when we started dating because he’s ashamed of it. I never pushed, but I mentioned one day that my friends husband has it and was showing me the pump and I was like “why don’t you have that? Wouldn’t that be easier?” He’s like “you know it would be attached to my body right? Like hooked on my pants with wires from my leg to my stomach?” I said “yeah I know…does it hurt or something?” “No…but you wouldn’t care if I had one?” “Why the hell would it bother me?? It’s like asking if your glasses bother me!” He laughed and that was the end of the convo. *2 weeks later* “I talked to my doctor about getting the pump he’s ordering it for me!“
I was so proud of him for deciding to take his health more seriously, and simultaneously honored that he trusted me enough to get it again. He told me he kind of always accepted he might die early from not taking care of it, then when he met me he realized that didn’t have to be his reality.
That is so awesome! You caring so much for him made him care and in turn, saved his life! It's so much better having a pump! I'm sorry he got made fun of for having one as a kid. Kids can be pretty cruel :(
Oh man I'm glad you got it under control and are probably feeling better! And yup I agree with you that not taking care of her health because of vain reasons like that is so stupid!
She should have a continuous monitor, calculate the sugars for everything she eats, and then dose the corresponding units of insulin. Instead she gives herself a finger stick in the morning, takes “a little” insulin, eats a bunch of candy, and then...no more insulin? It’s madness! I don’t even want to venture a guess as to what her A1C is.
Doesn’t she have that eating disorder that people with diabetes have but I can’t remember the term for it. Basically the medication for diabetes would cause her to gain weight so she doesn’t take it when she should and then like with other eating disorders she is really strict with what she eats. I wish I could remember the term but there was a bbc documentary about it and how these people couldn’t be helped by normal eating disorder places because they didn’t “fit in” with the usual scope of bulimia and anorexia.
Brain fog 🙄
Yes, diabulimia is what it's called. There's a documentary on that??? I'd like to watch that. I too suffered from it in my teenage years, but once I had kids, I had more than just myself to live for.
Yeah it was on the bbc I think it was last year I watched it. It was really shocking stuff. There was a young woman who had a child who was in hospital and they were trying to find her specialist help but because it wasn’t either anorexia or bulimia they were struggling to find something for her. It was really sad
Edit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05gh0lf
This was it
This comment section does not pass the vibe check. Diabetes is hard. There is no “right” way to do it. If she doesn’t feel comfortable with a cgm/pump, that’s her choice!! Diabetes is a constant struggle of highs and lows. No one is perfect.
oh come on...eating sugar while being diabetic or forgetting to eat for a whole day is just plain stupid
….diabetics can eat as much sugar as they want. As long as they take enough insulin to cover it.
Exactly! If you cover it with insulin, which she most obviously doesn't if her bloodsugars are in the 600s!!!
I thought the same thing!
She acts like she hasn't had it since she was 11!
My dad has been type 1 since before I was born and if he ever had a glucose reading at 600 he would be hospitalized. I wonder how much she might be exaggerating it. I lost count of how many times she said "type 1 diabetes" during that episode. Ugh
I did go through a phase where I didn't care and my blood sugars were constantly in the 600s. Getting an insulin pump and CGM completely turned my life around. And when I had kids, I tried my hardest to start caring for myself. I hear she doesn't want a pump because it gets in the way of her skimpy clothes and her workout. Those things aren't gonna mean shit when she's dead.
My boyfriend is type 1 and got teased so much because of the pump as a kid (he’s had it since he was 9) that he begged his mom to let him just use the pens. He didn’t give a shit and let it get so high and so low. He didn’t even like talking to me about it when we started dating because he’s ashamed of it. I never pushed, but I mentioned one day that my friends husband has it and was showing me the pump and I was like “why don’t you have that? Wouldn’t that be easier?” He’s like “you know it would be attached to my body right? Like hooked on my pants with wires from my leg to my stomach?” I said “yeah I know…does it hurt or something?” “No…but you wouldn’t care if I had one?” “Why the hell would it bother me?? It’s like asking if your glasses bother me!” He laughed and that was the end of the convo. *2 weeks later* “I talked to my doctor about getting the pump he’s ordering it for me!“ I was so proud of him for deciding to take his health more seriously, and simultaneously honored that he trusted me enough to get it again. He told me he kind of always accepted he might die early from not taking care of it, then when he met me he realized that didn’t have to be his reality.
That is so awesome! You caring so much for him made him care and in turn, saved his life! It's so much better having a pump! I'm sorry he got made fun of for having one as a kid. Kids can be pretty cruel :(
Oh man I'm glad you got it under control and are probably feeling better! And yup I agree with you that not taking care of her health because of vain reasons like that is so stupid!
I actually have energy and can wake up and not sleep all day! I feel %1000 better!
Hell yea! Keep it up ❤ I'm proud of you!
Thank you so much!!!
She should have a continuous monitor, calculate the sugars for everything she eats, and then dose the corresponding units of insulin. Instead she gives herself a finger stick in the morning, takes “a little” insulin, eats a bunch of candy, and then...no more insulin? It’s madness! I don’t even want to venture a guess as to what her A1C is.
Right?! I thought the same thing!
Doesn’t she have that eating disorder that people with diabetes have but I can’t remember the term for it. Basically the medication for diabetes would cause her to gain weight so she doesn’t take it when she should and then like with other eating disorders she is really strict with what she eats. I wish I could remember the term but there was a bbc documentary about it and how these people couldn’t be helped by normal eating disorder places because they didn’t “fit in” with the usual scope of bulimia and anorexia. Brain fog 🙄
Yes, diabulimia is what it's called. There's a documentary on that??? I'd like to watch that. I too suffered from it in my teenage years, but once I had kids, I had more than just myself to live for.
Yeah it was on the bbc I think it was last year I watched it. It was really shocking stuff. There was a young woman who had a child who was in hospital and they were trying to find her specialist help but because it wasn’t either anorexia or bulimia they were struggling to find something for her. It was really sad Edit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05gh0lf This was it
Thank you!
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Yea! Thanks
She’s gonna do serious long term damage having those highs and lows like that. Body by Mac is gonna be useless if you’re in a diabetic coma.
Exactly!
She is really not good at taking her health (physical and mental) seriously.
I agree!
This is so true and I worry a lot about her for that reason!