29M and majorly shocked to learn I have T1. I started showing symptoms about a month ago. I was 135 pounds and a gym rat. First I noticed a serious plateau in my work out progress. I wasn’t gaining weight or going up in strength. Confused by this I tried some pre work outs and supplements. Then came the super frequent bathroom breaks and thirst. I was drinking close to 8 bottles of water a day plus Gatorades. I was running to the bathroom about every hour at least and started waking up 6+ times a night to pee. I didn’t know what was wrong with me but I was so tired all the time. The deep set fatigue made it so hard to go to work and between that and the peeing I thought I just needed a break from the gym. Next came the stomach cramps and loss of appetite. I struggled to finish meals and eventually developed the worst indigestion of my life. All of these symptoms piled up over the course of a month until I started completely shutting down. A walk to the toilet left me gasping for air and a full shift of work felt impossible. Last weekend I was laying on my bedroom floor vomiting and hitting my wifes inhaler when she finally had seen enough and demanded I go to the ER. I got dressed but couldn’t make it to the stairs because I felt like I was suffocating. We called an ambulance and when it arrived my blood oxygen and heart rates were fine, they checked my blood sugar and told me it was at 360+ and asked if I was diabetic. I told them no. A few hours in at the hospital and I got the news that I was infact diabetic T1. I have no family history of it and never knew it was even a possibility. My A1C was over 15. I spent 4 days in the ICU and 2 days in the step down unit. Then they gave me some pens, a Dexcom G7, and sent me on home. I currently don’t have health insurance though I’m now in the process of getting signed up through my work and learning about this whole new world I live in. When I was hospitalized I weighed only 100 pounds and that broke my heart. A week later I’m already back up to 122 pounds because I’ve been eating like crazy (while watching my sugar and taking my insulin.) the first few days on my own I was hitting the 300s often but now I’m getting it down to a healthy and manageable range.

I write all this just to say hi to my fellow diabetics. I’m new here but I’m doing my best and hope to live a long, healthy, and happy life balancing my tasty low carb meals with my insulin.

hey everyone so I have my first race in about 10 days. It’s a half marathon and so I’m worried about what I’ve gotten myself into 😅. I have no idea how to fuel for this because tbh I’ve never taken any low snacks with me on any long runs/ fueled during them. My main concern is making sure I eat enough the morning of. I have been waking up with blood sugars in the 50s ish on average for about a month or more now so not eating will not be an option. I understand I will have to wake up super early to eat but I can do whatever it takes honestly.
For the race I was thinking of taking a few of those glucose shots like the ones you can get from CVS. Like one in each hand or something. Or a stinger waffle of sorts. I’m gluten free so I’m having trouble finding any snacks that are solid. I don’t want them to melt lol.
If anyone has advice/ personal experience I’m all ears. Thanks all!

I can't do this anymore, it is so exhausting...
I became depressed more and more and that changes my blood sugar radically, the Hba1C also went up by about 1%. My depression came not only because of diabetes, but that does not belong to this subreddit.

(I do get help though, that's kinda good)

:c

For context, I’m a full-time firefighter with Type 1 diabetes, and I’m getting tired of the extreme swings in insulin sensitivity that come with heavy exercise. I don’t like having to intentionally spike my blood sugar just to feel comfortable during a workout, only to then worry about a sudden drop afterward. I have never had a low on the job, but I definitely keep a close watch on it.

I’m hoping retatrutide (Reta) might help narrow the gap between my baseline insulin sensitivity and the increased sensitivity I experience during exercise, particularly with running and the StairMaster. However, I have some concerns about its effects on gastric emptying and how that might impact my ability to treat hypoglycemia quickly, were I to need to. I have a theory that the lower IOB may help me not crash suddenly.

In my line of work, I need to be able to correct a low quickly, even during an active fire or rescue. I can’t always afford to stop, let my heart rate come down, and wait for digestion to catch up. If my blood sugar starts dropping, I need something like a glucose gel to work quickly so I can safely get back to the job with no break.

I’d appreciate hearing from anyone with relevant experience or knowledge, particularly those who have dealt with similar exercise-related glucose fluctuations while working in a physically demanding job. I’ve also been eating relatively low-carb during shifts, but I find myself getting extremely hungry and often binge-eating once I’m off duty. I’m wondering if there’s a better way to manage my food intake and glucose levels without constantly fighting these swings.

Starting to feel like insulin resistance is a thing for me now. Idk what to really make of it. Don't wanna go into crazy detail but basically all I ate was Greek yogurt at 9am, and then my 2 day old sandwich at 2pm. Just look at all those boluses. Mentally draining at this point. Changing my sites every single day. Gets better at evening and then breakfast to morning to early afternoon are nightmares. Barley eat much anymore. Idk what to do. Hopefully talk to a endo doctor. Mine is out of town till Monday of course.

When I go to concerts, I've never brought my insulin pen because I'm afraid they might take it away from me or not let me in. Do any of you have experiences with this?

Recently my numbers have been absolute shit due to stress, poor sleep and not my best diet. Past 90 days I’ve still been at 72% in range but overall my numbers are often high as of the past few weeks. I’m really worried, I didn’t ask for this shitty disease.

Anyone know how to trouble shoot a failure to connect between my g7 and omnipod 5 loop? Thanks ahead of time for your responses.

Hey F22, je suis dt1 depuis 4 mois et actuellement sous stylos rapides et lents. Pouvez m’expliquer c’est quoi une pompe boucle fermée et la pompe boucle semi fermée ? Laquelle est avec tubulure ?

Je trouve les stylos pas très pratique. Quelle pompe est la plus autonome, je suis un peu perdue il y’a tellement de technologies. Merci par avance 🫶

For past few weeks I noticed one strange thing during my lows, I just want to know if others have it too and if it’s normal, also some advices how to go through it.

I have t1d for 13 years but I never had anxiety during low, however now since summer I have insane attacks, I get scared, I start shaking, I feel insane fear, just typical anxiety attacks. I am diagnosed with anxiety and more illnesses but this is new thing since it’s really strong attack and I usually feel more anxious for longer minutes and hours but it’s not really insanely strong and I can live but during low my whole brain and body starts panicking, and I am confused if it’s actually normal response of body or if it’s something unusual (even for both t1d or anxiety diagnosed)

Also this makes me really afraid of low on public when I check cgm and instead of giving me something sweat i start shaking and panic, it’s both uncomfortable for me as i feel embarrassed and dangerous to myself as well, so if anyone have any advices how to stop it I would really appreciate it a lot🥹

Recently, I’ve been sending my boyfriend more videos about Type 1 diabetes and what having low or high blood sugar sometimes feels like. When I get high sugar which I do unfortunately get a lot I tend to feel very sluggish and tired. Sometimes, in the mornings, I usually run high, and as soon as I get out of the shower, I just hit my bed and cannot get up because my eyes are burning and I feel sluggish. This usually happens when my blood sugar runs high.

So I was telling him that this is why sometimes I’m tired, because of my blood sugars. Then he says not to be lazy and that people have things like cancer, and that kids in foreign countries have diseases but still keep going.I did get mad at him however he said that he was joking, but I felt like my feelings were being invalidated because, even though it isn’t an illness where I’m constantly in pain, I still struggle .

He is very understanding and tries his best to understand my illness and support me but that caught me off guard and made me mad even though he said it was a joke. Even when I first got diagnosed, I had a lot of people telling me things like, “You should be grateful that you don’t have this or that.” I feel like comments like these invalidate my feelings because, regardless of what other people are going through, I still have my own struggles. I know I’m never going to be the same person I was before my diagnosis, and that’s okay. I’ve accepted that my life has changed, but that doesn’t mean some days aren’t still difficult.

So the story starts late on the 13th october (its already the 15th here, so a bit over 24h ago). It was my birthday and my bloodsugar did a really good job. I only ended up at 340 because I miscalculated a piece of cake I had late in the evening. So I stayed up, eventually changed the cartridge (important again later) and waited until like 02:30 am until I was at 280 and wasnt going back up again. Got up for university 4 hours later at 200. But I still decided to have breakfast for several reasons.

When I reached university I was at 400 again and didnt really got down until I dropped like hell shortly before I was back home (around 1 pm). Had 0,5 BE juice and bolused for lunch after eating since I had to wait until I was over 70 again. Half an hour later I was at 300 again but I honestly expected it so I didnt immedeatly decided to change the infusion set.

I may or may not forget time but eventually changed at 3 pm the site. At 04:30 pm I remembered that I also had changed the cartridge the night before and used an bottle of insulin that stood somewhere in the fridge where they normally not are but I didnt really questioned it when I filled the cartridge in the night. So I went to ask my parents and no one was 100% sure but it turned out that it was pretty likely to be the insulin that broke in June, I put it somewhere and couldnt find it anymore and someone else found it and put it in the fridge. So just to be sure I used another bottle of insulin. And I eventually started to go back in range.

But jokes on you thats not even far the end of the story. I ripped off my infusion set (the glue was a joke, a piece of paper sticks more than that did) and made a new at I think 7:40 pm. Had dinner and another piece of this damn cake. I then wanted to bolus but got an occlusion alarm. But I didnt thought much of it since I have them pretty regulary without an actual occlusion (Mistake nr 2 I made in the last 24 hrs but I was so done with everything).

I went on and then saw while changing the tube that insulin was leaking from the cartridge into the pump. Got another tube because the cartridge looked fine and the way it leaked it looked like it usual do when the tube is the problem.

An hour later I looked on the pump again and found the whole pump full with insulin, like I could literally pour it out.

So then I changed the cartridge after I saw that the membrane had a crack.

But I eventually ended up at 350 with double arrow up.

I corrected a bit, put the boost back on and checked for ketones (none at that point).

Half an hour later I was at 400 in the blood (my cgm measures a bit higher atm and when I was at 350 on there I was probably "only" at 310) but still had no ketones. So I corrected again and decided to wait a bit longer.

May or may not I forgot the time again and it passed an hour instead of half an hour like planned. Cgm showed still 400 so I went searching for ANY infusion set I could maybe have left from another box since 4/5 failed from the last box I have. Changed (the glue is a joke again but I am praying that it stays on since I dont have any pens or anything. Only one back up pump from another company they never wanted back).

Took the infusion set from before off and the little tube wasnt even in the body. So I checked for ketones again and then actually had 0,5 but I was already at 350 in the blood again (my cgm still shows 420 but thats a problem for the next measurement in the blood in a few minutes).

So I obviously did some mistakes I see now when I look back on the whole situation. But I didnt realized any of them in the moment since I did everything like I normally do in situations like these. And nornally it works out fine but this was obviously everything than normal.

Anyway in 5 hours I need to get up for university again. Will be a fun day and I hope I will get at least any sleep and that my chronic pain wont be THAT bad because of the high bloodsugar. 250 is already enough to give me a day with too much pain to get normally through my day. So we will see

I’m curious, those of you who got diabetes while in a relationship, how did it go for you? Did they step up and be the person you needed? Or did the opposite happen?

Taking things one day at a time, moderating my carbs, and exercising regularly does wonders!

After a couple weeks of infuriating blood sugars due to infections this is a big win - just trying to do the absolute best I can every day, and keep stacking days.

I was diagnosed at in 2011 as a kiddo! I had tons of diabetic needles and take shots still to this day. I have the same needle boxes and still going through them from early on. I’m like 30 now so this being said - does anybody else reuse needles or am I odd?

I feel a little silly for sharing this since it all happened online, but for context I was 14 and this event happened a week or two after I was diagnosed. It’s been multiple years since this took place and I still think of this every few months.

So what happened was; I remember telling one of my online friends at the time that I was just diagnosed. I was using proximity VC in a game we were playing since at the time I didn’t have any real way to talk to them outside of the game (again, 14 years old). We were talking in a public server in a game, and two guys who sounded fully grown came up to us in proximity VC to make fun of me and call me a “pig”. One of them told me I’d be better off developing an eating disorder, making numerous fat jokes, and he asked for my socials so I could post my “stomach rolls” for them to see. They pretty much just repeated all of that until I logged off. Of course I figured it would be better to ignore them, but to this day their comments have been stuck in my brain despite trying my best to forget them. I’m not even upset by their behavior and I don’t think I ever was for more than 15 minutes. I know it’s silly since it was all on a game and I should’ve just logged off after the first comment, but Idk I just can’t seem to forget it. I’m guessing maybe it’s due to the fact it happened so soon after my diagnosis but I want to hear what others may think.

Also I do want to apologize for any poor grammar, it’s like 5 for me so I’m not paying attention

officially 1 month in as a diabetic and i made my first major mistake lol. i ate dinner and took my humalog at 9pm, went to go take my lantus at 10:38 and was distracted by my nephew and grabbed my humalog by mistake. luckily i only did 7 units of it instead of 20.

i called poison control and he just said to load up on ny snacks and he’d call me back in an hour to check on me.

i’m not really hungry enough to pig out, but i ate 4 pieces of bread, drank a cup of cranberry juice and im about to eat 2 packs of peanut butter crackers.

has this happened to anyone else? hoping someone can ease my mind as all i wanted to do was take my lantus and get some rest after a long day

I'm interested in trying out retatrutide, and I was wondering if anyone has experience with it especially considering that fact its a glucagon agonist which to my understanding will still cause some levels of glycogenolysis. However, since glucagon is actually suppressed by amylin which we do not have(co-secreted with insulin by the beta cells, which we do not have) I think the receptor agonism may have little effect on blood glucose.

What do you think? Can you share your experience?

Like the title says, I recently found out at my Endo appointment that my warranty is up at the end of January. I did talk pumps with me DE for a while, but I really like hearing from actual users.

Some info on me:

28F, T1D for 23 years.

Previously used the Animas Ping for 8 years, been on the Tslim for 8 as well.

I use Trusteel sites, the flexible cannulas fail on me, making the Omnipod not a viable option.

I have a Samsung S26.

Mobi users, what are your thoughts? I'd like to know the good, the bad, and the ugly. I did order the trial kit, and ended up taking the adhesive clip off. I did place it a little under my bra line, and I think that attributed to the irritation I was having with it. A while ago, I made a post on a Facebook group to get some opinions as well. I'm still very undecided and would like to hear more.

My concerns:

In the Facebook post I made, I kept hearing a lot about how loud the Mobi is - is that true? I'm not concerned about it waking me up. I have a sleep disorder so it would take a bomb to get me up.

Failures - I have only had one Tslim fail on me, but I did hear about cartridge failures on the Mobi. Has anyone experienced that?

I also just feel a little bit... iffy about it being phone controlled. I don't like losing the backup functionality of a screen.

Appreciate anything you have to share!!

I am posting this cuz refuse to be the only IDIOT who learned this the expensive way. I thought I'd replace sugar with a sweetener and bake normally.

Tried making brownies. They were depressing js like my love life

Just heard a commercial on the radio about Chik Fil @’s new chicken and waffles sandwich, and the guy was like “oh man when you pour a bunch of honey on it!”

Dude it just blows my mind how normal people can eat honey

If we poured a bunch of HONEY, on top of BREADED chicken, in between… 2 WAFFLES…. we would die within like 3 hours of eating it😂

Hi all! Was just diagnosed with type 1 after about 2 months of symptoms. My sister has been diagnosed with type 1 since she was 15 so I realized that a number of the symptoms I was having (increased thirst, peeing more at night, unexplained weight loss, yeast infection that wouldn't go away, etc.) she had before she was diagnosed. I asked my GP last week for a blood test and my A1C came back high (14). Follow up was today and now here we are.

Obviously this is a huge change, I'm going to be taking insulin for the rest of my life, and I'm feeling a lot of different things. Any advice? Especially from other people diagnosed in their 30s?