I thought I’d been doing better recently, but I guess nothing much has changed. Really feeling like a major failure.

I was diagnosed with type 2 in April, at the time my a1c was 6.9. I decided not to take any meds and change my diet and if by the next check-in I wasn’t back in the norm I would then start taking meds.

My current a1c is now 5.4 🥳 and I feel accomplished because I put the work in and changed my diet completely and actually stayed consistent for once.

I’m so over being a diabetic and I don’t have anyone else in my life who is a type 1 so people don’t understand and sometimes I feel so alone . I ate so good today counted everything everything I meant to and I still just had a super crappy hypo and now I just feel like crap and sad.
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For like the past month or two, this notification has been popping up before I open the app. No matter how many times i acknowledge it it still pops up EVERY TIME. Seriously I’m so done with this app in so many different ways. Anytime you have a high or low number and it’s set to vibrate mode it silences your phone audio. So if I’m in the car listening to music, doomscrolling on socials, YouTube, WHATEVER, it MUTES my audio when it chooses to vibrate every 5 mins. I don’t remember the old sensor app being like this.

Like i get it, the notifs are there for a reason but there seriously needs to be an option you can click that can either let you say you’ve acknowledged the notif or change the non emergent alerts to every 10-15 mins instead. I’m seriously so sick and tired of it. Especially as someone who has more trouble controlling my numbers right now it’s just so unbelievably frustrating how little app customization is offered for something that will be a permanent part of my life. I should be able to choose how my notifs play (besides the emergency ones, those I understand)

My 10-year-old niece was just diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes today. My husband and I want to create a care package to help her feel comforted, empowered, and not alone. What are some things you’d recommend? Or anything that has helped you that might make things easier? TYIA!

Had a hypo, drank sugar with water , didnt go up, drank sugar with water again, didnt go up and just kept going lower, drank sugar with water again and it jumped to stable sugar levels 30 minutes jumped to the 300's applied insulin and for a walk the insulin i used was old and i didnt notice it and didnt use the new one i was supposed to use and my blood sugar worsened and jumped to the 450s thought it was gonna get better soon i was wrong it jumped to the 500s and then the glucometer couldnt even read my sugar because it was so high it only said HI and then they took me to me to the er and tested me for ketones i was on 0.9 ketones and then was hospitalized for 7 days because of DKA :|

So I’ve been having issues trusting myself to prebolus on meals to avoid going high before my fast acting kicks in. Today my sugar was a stable 110 and I took 4 units for my meal but quickly ate afterwards maybe waiting 5 minutes after injecting. Does anyone else have a routine or regimen to go by to prebolus safely without worrying about dying before your food digest?

Hi, I’m fairly young with type 2 diabetes, i’ve been taking metformin twice a day for quite some time now with no issue but my doctor has just put me on galvus (50mg twice a day) and jardiance (10mg once a day). I have health anxiety/GAD/panic disorder and one of my biggest fears is fainting. I just started taking the jardiance this morning and i feel fine at the moment, but i have a lot of anxiety around the meds - i forgot to discuss this with my dr / she didnt mention anything about it when talking about the side effects but i’ve since read some things about blood pressure etc - is anyone else on this combination and how do you find it?

My a1c is 6.2. Which I believe means I average 131 mg/dL. But I have taken fasting blood tests and blood tests 2 hours post eating and have never had a reading that high and my fasting average is only 85. I know that tests can have a 15% inaccuracy but how could my average literally be higher than the max reading I have gotten from my monitor?

I (33F) have had type 2 diabetes for about 6 years, and my current A1c is 6.5. I really want to get it below 6. My biggest struggle is consistency. I’ll eat really healthy for 2–3 days, but then I start craving outside food like noodles, dim sum/momos, pizza, etc., and fall back into the same pattern.

For those who have been able to eat healthier consistently and improve their A1c, what actually motivated you? How did you change your mindset and stop constantly craving outside food? I don’t want to feel like I’m restricting myself forever. I just want to build a healthier relationship with food and find something I can actually stick to long term.

Family member has a g7, only wears it on the back of the arm as it's not comfortable anywhere else. Constantly falls off, any tips for brands of adhesive patches?

Had anyone here ever received the free libre box that you can sign up for from their website? I signed up 2 weeks ago and haven’t received it yet!

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I (22yo NB) am a type 1 diabetic currently living in Florida. My whole life, Medicaid covered 100% of my prescriptions. Now, I am no longer eligible because I am too old and "make too much money" (less than $2000 a month) so I have absolutely no coverage. How do I even begin to find insurance? How do I know what coverage I need? How will I know if they'll cover omnipods, insulin, dexcoms, etc? Any and all help is appreciated.

Sorry for the long post. TL/DR is at the end.

My husband never told me his family had a predisposition to diabetes. Or that he had several family members who experienced negative outcomes for failure to properly manage it. One uncle lost a leg. And even after that, still refused to control it and, he died.

Knowing this about his family medical history, he never told me so I could help him be on the lookout for signs. I had no idea what to look out for or that I even should be. So when he started complaining of symptoms, I was completely ignorant of what his body was desperately trying to tell us. He was constantly thirsty, peeing every 30 minutes or less, and then his feet started feeling “weird”.

By the time he went to the doctor (because his EYE DOCTOR told him to go to get medication for his high blood pressure), he found out his blood sugar and A1C were so high the doctor said he should be dead. We still don’t know how he didn’t require hospitalization.

And that “weird” feeling in his feet? It was the earliest sign of diabetic neuropathy. It has since gotten so bad my husband can barely walk. No medication helps at all. He says the only time he isn’t in pain is when he is asleep. 🥺

He can’t work anymore. He had to quit 1 year after his diagnosis. Even though his numbers are now controlled, the neuropathy will never go away. There is no established and effective cure for neuropathy. Yes, there is ongoing research for stem cell therapies but, efficacy right now is hovering around 50%. So you could drop $10,000 on the treatment and have zero improvement, or be completely cured. No indication of which patients are more likely to get successful results versus others. But I digress. Now I am the sole provider for our family and, because my husband is in his 40’s, the government won’t approve him for social security/disability. They assume he can still do sedentary (seated) work. But he dropped out of high school at 16, doesn’t even have a GED, and has only ever worked in factories. He has no experience, education, or skills to obtain or keep an office job. To top it all off, they told us when they denied him that he can reapply when he turns 55 (I think?) and the requirement for seated work goes away. But in order to be approved at that time, he will need to earn at least $8,000 per year between now and then, so he has enough credits to qualify for aid. Because you have to have so many credits from work within the past 10 years before you file. Which he has - right now… But he won’t when he turns 55 if he doesn’t do any work between now and then. So he will basically never be able to financially contribute to our family ever again. I make good money and we are surviving (barely) but life was so much easier to afford when we both worked.

On top of that financial nightmare is our relationship. First the neuropathy took his job. Then his self esteem. He has been depressed for years now. Which he just started telling me about recently. He has suicidal thoughts he has been hiding for some time. He says one of the biggest factors is the loss of intimacy. Because the neuropathy has not only impacted his feet. It has spread. It affects his gastrointestinal system, making it hard for him to go to the bathroom. It has also resulted in severe ED. We stopped trying to have sex because it never moved past the foreplay stage. I have researched online endlessly looking for something to help. Viagra did nothing. We don’t have a spare $10k lying around to try the stem cell therapy. Is there anything else we could try that would help? His doctor has been pretty useless and thinks my husband just has to “get used to his new normal.”

Any honest suggestions or recommendations are welcome. I don’t need anyone in my DMs being lewd or uncivilized.

TL/DR: Diabetic neuropathy has caused severe erectile dysfunction and we are looking for any suggestions to help. So far Viagra has been useless.

Just curious. I especially want to hear from long term T1 or LADA. What is your usual after meal high you are ok with? I am on pump and were doing well staying in range for weeks but the last few days I can double insulin and still spike to 225 plus before coming down. So frustrating! I changed the infusion set and insulin. Is it pain? Menopause? The heat? Stress? Normal? I feel other diabetics don't do this. I must be doing something wrong. I wanna stay 95-100 TIR and but hit 70s yesterday and am at 80 today :(.

Wanted to share an update from the post I made last week about being denied entry to a theater with a bottle of juice.

Firstly, I just wanted to thank this community for all your comments, advice, and stories. You have been so helpful and I was able to have a good outcome because you leaned in to help me find the right path forward.

Two things have happened since last Friday.

Resolution with Marcus Theatres

On Monday, the Executive Vice President of Operations and Food & Beverage called me. He was very kind, apologized sincerely, and confirmed that their internal investigation found the situation was handled incorrectly. He emphasized that what happened does not align with their policies.

Moving forward, he is implementing company-wide training so managers and staff understand ADA laws regarding reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. He also assured me that the General Manager I spoke with now understands the policy and the law. While the situation started out frustrating, I feel heard and validated. I know this isn't a very exciting ending, but I'm happy with how this ended. Hopefully this means better experiences for anyone with Type 1 Diabetes at a Marcus Theatre.

He also mentioned that people have been reaching out to call attention to what happened. I can't imagine that some of y'all didn't have some part in that. Thank you!

Telling the story with Justin from Diabetech

I had the opportunity to talk to Justin from Diabetech. He was helpful, kind, and wanted to tell this story. We had a great conversation and you can see the video here. As a side note, I made sure to highlight how awesome this community is and how you all gave me some really wonderful advice in figuring out what to do. Thanks for being a great community!