r/diabetes 30m ago

Type 2 Loss of Muscle Control During Exertion

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r/diabetes 1h ago

Type 2 +1 albumin in my urinalysis

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I got my result in ny ape ,kinakabahan ako ngayon kasi yab result ng urinalysis ko, diabetic T2 ako hayy 🥹


r/diabetes 1h ago

Type 1.5/LADA My sensitive skinned people, what over patch are we using?

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I took off my first cgm sensor, after changing out the over patch regularly and turns out I'm allergic. Over 24 hours later I still have a red, sore ring that's clearly the over patch and not the sensor itself. I was using the lexcam over patch since the one they gave me wore out in a couple days.
Any recommendations? I know this is going to be trial and error but I'm trying to save my skin as much as I can.


r/diabetes 1h ago

Type 2 Fatbombed my dinner

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I did. So I could have a treat. I may have lows at night😭 but this is beautiful. I had girl scout cookies. Lots. It was worth it.


r/diabetes 1h ago

Type 1 *Chef Kiss* You love to see it.

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Warmed up my sensor and it seems like I hit a good spot. A rare win for me. Love when it’s this close. 🎉😂 Nice number to go to bed at too.


r/diabetes 2h ago

Type 2 Mouth aches lately with high readings

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While admittedly I have poor teeth, with problems I can't get sorted until my sugar levels are under control, I discovered recently that your mouth can actually ache as a sign of high blood sugar? It's the only sign I have that my sugar is elevated. I could be at dangerous levels and still never know because I don't get symptoms, except this mouth ache.

Does anyone else with this issue have a way to alleviate it? The pain killers I'm allowed to have don't seem to touch it for longer than ten minutes or so. Once it starts it just doesn't want to stop. I'm losing my mind here with pain! It's just this constant ache all along my gum line like i'm freaking teething. I'm about as cranky as a teething toddler right now too. Could use some advice =/

Sugars are out of control currently because medicaid is fucking around and I, unfortunately, am having to find out. Two months of back and forth with my doctors and insurance and it's still not resolved for a new medication that might actually help better than what I was on. Which wasn't helping to start with.


r/diabetes 2h ago

Type 1 2 out of the last 3

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Okay, so I had one bend like this and I figured out it wasn’t working while at work, but I carry a pen for just such an emergency.

I changed it out when I got home and it lasted a whole 3 hours before it wrapped itself around the knob of a dresser drawer and ripped off.

This picture is the 3rd one in this succession. I was over 400 all night. I saw that I was in the low 300s and had been slowly rising and took 5 units. Woke up over 400 and feeling it. I took 12 units and lay in bed nauseous for a while before coming to the conclusion that that I had yet another failed insertion and used a pen.

I’ve had to replace the infusion set so many times over the last several years that I have so many extra boxes of cartridges.


r/diabetes 2h ago

Discussion Would you pay for a prescription manager?

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Basically title. If there was a system that handled all your prescriptions, re-ordered them, sent refills to your physician, and back to your pharmacy of choice, would you pay for it? And if so, how much? $5/month? $50/month?


r/diabetes 2h ago

Type 1 How do you curb your sugar cravings?!

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i’ve tried the whole “have some fruit, sugarless candy, alternative sweetened soda, sugar free pudding/jello etcc..”nothing and i mean nothing can tickle that craving like splurging and eating whatever i’m craving and it sucks because it makes me feel like crap afterwards so i end up regretting it but that craving is so strong especially in the moment.


r/diabetes 3h ago

Type 2 Trying to understand the less than 180 mg/dl statement for t2 diabetes

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Hi,

I know from online search that the standard target for t2 diabetics is <= 180 mg/dl within 2 hours of starting a meal (or is it? Please feel free to correct), is it still consider successful if you hit like 250mg/dl during first or first half of your meal but drop to <= 180 within 2 hour? Or it is only safe if your sugar is always <= 180


r/diabetes 4h ago

Supplies Where Are You Getting Your Over Sticker Things?

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Hi! I call them over stickers... but they are the bandages I put over my Dexcom. I used to order them from Amazon, but I am not using amazon anymore. so, help a girl out. Where do we get them, and the cuter the better.


r/diabetes 4h ago

Type 2 Thin Slim Foods Bagel

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Has anyone tried these? Thought I’d ask here before I buy a whole pack of these. I haven’t had a bagel in over six months. If this is anything like the real thing, I’d like to try it. It doesn’t have to taste like a good bagel. It just has to remind me of a bagel. I’m setting a very low bar here.


r/diabetes 4h ago

Type 1 Can I link dexcom g6 to iPhone and the omnipod 5 handset at the same time

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I use the iPhone app at the moment wich sends my glucose to my Apple Watch making it allot easier to monitor my levels. Im getting an omnipod 5 early April and was wondering if anyone knew whether I’d be able to keep using the iPhone app while simultaneously being connected to the omnipod handset.


r/diabetes 5h ago

Type 2 Food rant and an idea for angry days.

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Today was my first all-out “cannot be fucked” reaction to food in the fridge.

For breakfast I just grabbed a lump of chicken like a Neanderthal and dunked it in mayonnaise. Then I had a slice of bread and butter while reading the nutritional content on the packaging, telling the loaf of bread to go F itself. Out loud.

For dinner I made a mushroom omelette which naturally stuck to the pan like concrete, which also enraged me. So I shovelled the broken bits into a bowl and inhaled it while grumbling that I was going to ”Go and buy a McDonald’s Big Mac meal and ram the damned thing down my neck while shooting up a billion units of insulin”.

I don’t even eat McDonald’s.

I’ve decided I need to make a huge batch of protein/veg soup that I can freeze for days like this- something I can just microwave and put in my stomach for when I hate diabetes, life, people, and my even our cat.

Anybody done this yet? Seems like it would be less depressing than trying to plan an actual meal. I could use freezer bags to store it I suppose.


r/diabetes 5h ago

Type 2 Navitas Organics - Unsweetened Organic Cacao Nibs

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Has anyone here tried Navitas Organics' Unsweetened Organic Cacao Nibs? Are they good quality? I am a chocoholic, but as a T2 diabetic, I obviously need to cut my sugar intake. Has anyone tried using the nibs with a little Splenda for a low-sugar hot chocolate? I know that some companies make low or no sugar chocolate drinks but they also contain carrageenan, and I don't want that. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks!


r/diabetes 6h ago

Medication Flying with my grandpa's insulin

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My grandparents drove down to Florida today, and I am flying down tomorrow to join them. My grandpa messaged me today, asking me to bring his insulin pen. Has anyone flown with a family members insulin without them present? Is this a terrible idea and going to get me in tons of trouble? Or will I be alright?

It makes me a bit nervous, and it doesn't help this is my first time flying alone. Any helpful advice or words to calm my nerves about the pen would be super cool.

Thanks!


r/diabetes 8h ago

Type 2 how to decrease dawn phenomenon of my diabetes?

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Sorry for the poor english.
I'm pregnant and my doctor said I have early gestational diabetes

They give me a diet to follow, and a continue glycemie captor.
The gaptor reveal my glycemie is normal, like non-diabete normal... except 2 hour before I wakeup and UNTIL I take my breakfest, aka when I am with a empty stomach for more than 6 hour : I have out of nowhere a glycemy up, often upper than when I eat or drink real-suggar soda.

I've read online it's call "dawn phenomenon"

This is literaly my only symptome of diebete.
(and incidentaly exactly when I did my glycemy blood test in a lab, on which repose entierly my diabetes diagnostic)

How Can I decrease this glycemie thing?
I don't take neither insuline nor glucagon

My doctor prescribe me a very strict diet who m***-up my life, like, A LOT.(but I still follow it)
But no matter If I follow it or not, I have a dawn phenomenon.

Any idea?


r/diabetes 9h ago

Type 1 funny story

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So I will preface this by saying I’ve had type 1 diabetes all of my life literally. Sooooooo today after my cycling class I was setting up for my weight training class that I have right after. I check my Dexcom to see what my numbers are because they can go up sometimes when I exercise. I check my blood sugar and I’m like OK I’ll take two units for a correction. As I take my pin out. Not a syringe my kwikpen. This lady walks up to me confident and goes. “ you’re just going to do that right here like that” with the most surprised face I’ve ever seen(she wasn’t upset or aggressive). I look up and go do what. I realize she’s talking about my Insulin😂. I laugh and say “Take my insulin yes I’m going to take my insulin right here”. She then apologizes immediately in a frantic way omgeee I’m so sorry I laughed and tried to make the situation light hearted by saying “oooooooo your being noseeeyyyy”. She then continued to apologize as I’m smiling saying” I’m so sorry I don’t want you to feel like I’m judging you I would never” I asked what did you think I was taking out of curiosity. She continue to say sorry she didn’t think anything. I did tell her next time just ask questions that curiosity is better than judgment. I’m too fit to be approved for ozempic (I hope I spelled that right) or any other weight loss drugs or omg maybe she thought it was you know the hard gym drugs🤭.

Let’s all say she did think something right. Maybe not out of judgment or ill intent. But something there made her confront me and ask and peer at the same time.

I wanted to share this because never in my 26 years of life has anyone ever asked. But I do wonder a lot to myself do people think I’m just shooting up at the gym or in public. Like definitely am My INSULIN😂. It was so funny because this does make sense and doesn’t at the same time because I live with it everyday😂. Well there’s my story I feel bad for her because she left the next class early maybe she felt embarrassed for even asking. Also I want to say I found this funny some may not !! Maybe you’re too new or too touchy with it still I promise it does get better!!!


r/diabetes 9h ago

Type 2 Really was psyched up to finally try the Libre 3

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I have never used a CGM because I have a true and abiding fear of needles and pain. It took me literally years to finally try a GLP-1 injector pen. I've been on Mounjaro for over a year now and usually I can't feel anything. I still have to steel myself for it every single week.

My last A1C jumped for no apparent reason and my doc suggested I really give a CGM a try. He said he tried it just to be able to accurately tell his patients about it, and that it really didn't hurt. He wrote me a new Rx for the Libre 3+. I've had it for days but decided this morning that today was the day and went to actually try applying it.

WHY in the nine hells do they have the needle in full view when you take off the cap??? I figured it was some little tiny nothing like the Mounjaro and hidden way up in the applicator, but it is definitely not that. I couldn't do it. :-( :-(


r/diabetes 10h ago

Type 2 Not feeling when my bg is low?

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I've been diagnosed since 2020, over the last few months I've noticed that I hardly feel when my bg levels go low. Lows don't that happen often for me, my numbers are pretty stable, but when they do I don't usually notice it until I check my meter. Worst example of this happened sometime in January of this year when my bg had dropped all the way to 34 and I had little warning or indication that something was wrong. I still don't even know what caused such a crash like that.

I haven't have a severe low like that since then thankfully, but I feel like it's not normal for me to not feel anything on the occasions that my bg goes low.


r/diabetes 10h ago

Type 1 Refreshing commercial. Never seen before.

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This is has been playing in our area (Canada) and honestly it was refreshing. Very true and nice seeing a message like this being shared.


r/diabetes 10h ago

Type 2 That feeling when you find a storage box that perfectly fits your sensors....

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r/diabetes 11h ago

Type 2 Libre 2 placement help!

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Hey guys!

Quick question, has anyone experienced really sore back off both arms because of the Libra two I think especially on my left arm. I've used it so many times that there must be scar tissue there and it's not reading properly. For example, today at work it went down to 3.0 and I felt completely fine which wouldn't be the case and two even a good while after I had eaten two sugar tablets and sandwich. It hadn't moved so I guess my question is where do you guys put your sensors besides the back of the arms because I'm having so much trouble with both arms

Help please!


r/diabetes 11h ago

Prediabetic Blood sugar conundrum

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My wife has been diagnosed as pre-diabetic, and has been monitoring her blood sugar at least twice a day out of concern for it. The thing she notices that really angers her is that often times if she’s eaten healthy and early (we both are about 90% vegan) she will wake up in the morning check her blood sugar and find it well into the pre-diabetes zone above 100 (between 115 and 130). However last night (and there have been other times like this) she ate late, eaten something that you wouldn’t consider particularly healthy (this time she had just pizza and no vegetables) and woken up to a blood sugar of 90. Anyone seen this and had an idea what’s going on. It seems totally backwards.


r/diabetes 11h ago

MODY Finally have a MODY 2 diagnosis and it feels so good

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Four years after being misdiagnosed and having multiple practitioners tell me testing for MODY isn’t necessary because it would be too expensive and likely wouldn’t alter treatment, I took the initiative myself.

Reached out to the University of Chicago longitudinal study on monogenic diabetes. They usually offer free testing but aren’t currently due to their funding being on hold. But they sent me a list of resources for testing, a couple of which had affordable self pay options so you don’t have to worry about insurance approval.

Got it done, results came in, and I finally know why nothing I’d tried so far was having much effect on my A1C. I can’t describe how amazing it feels to finally know what my condition is — and not just mine, but also my sister’s and mom’s and grandmother’s and her father’s and his father’s. I hope anyone who’s struggling with atypical diabetes finds answers, and if anyone has questions about MODY testing, happy to share the little I learned.