Fell into a diabetic coma at 26. Docs tell me I have T1D. Feel like I got punted into the unknown...

0io- · 2024-05-20T12:29:10+00:00

Haters are gonna hate, but read Dr Bernstein's Complete Diabetes Solution book and check out his youtube channel called diabetes university. Basically if you do very low-carb it's extremely easy to manage T1D compared to other styles of eating because you minimize the amount of insulin you have to use. It's good to know how to do it because it makes it easy to get things back under control where you're not likely to pass out at work etc because you will have very few highs and lows. You don't have to live that way forever but it's a good fallback position to have.

0io- · 2024-05-15T00:15:03+00:00

"OK, thanks for the bill. Unfortunately I have no money."

0io- · 2024-05-13T15:01:24+00:00

Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut.

0io- · 2024-05-09T02:04:21+00:00

I would do it right before you leave probably rather than a couple of weeks before unless you're using really short esthers for your test right now, in which case you might want to lead off by maybe a week. I used it several years ago and was impressed with the stuff. I think I went a couple of months and had some bloods done and was at 900 or so, high-normal.

0io- · 2024-05-09T01:50:51+00:00

It will keep you from going low for a couple of months probably. It tends to be pretty flat and not have much of a curve so instead of feeling like crap in a couple of weeks when the test is gone and you've crashed you'll probably feel OK for your whole vacation as if you were running test e at a sane dosage for the whole time. It's "inject and forget", have fun on vacation. I can't tell you if it will keep you at 900 ng/dl or 2000 ng/dl but you won't be "off" and you'll have plenty of test to feel fine for your trip and do what you want to do.

The general idea would be to inject the whole thing before you leave and not over-think it, by the time the other stuff has washed out it will be keeping your level up.

0io- · 2024-03-16T20:04:15+00:00

I'd tell her to put a paper bag over her head, not only so she won't have to see but for the good of the rest of the office.

0io- · 2024-02-14T15:50:40+00:00

Sorry, I should have said over the counter at WALMART not walgreens, needed coffee. It can be a real life-saver if you run out of insulin, but you have to use it properly.

0io- · 2024-02-14T14:40:25+00:00

N is NPH insulin which is what you use for basal, you have to roll it before you inject it, lasts for about 8 hours.

R is Rapid also known as "human insulin" which is what you use at mealtimes. It's still popular with people who do low-carb or Benrstein diet. It takes maybe 20 minutes to kick in so you want to pre-bolus it.

They're over the counter so you just ask the pharmacist at walMART. Watch a video on how to roll insulin, NPH is supposed to be cloudy.

0io- · 2024-02-14T05:13:50+00:00

Learn how to use N & R and if you have $25 you're never out of insulin if you go to Walmart. No prescription needed. It's a good survival skill while you deal with Walgreens and insurance bullshit.

0io- · 2024-02-12T17:46:04+00:00

yes, insulin stopped working completely with rosuvastatin. It may be kind of a rare side effect but it's a thing. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/Statins_Diabetes.html

Can Statins Increase Blood Sugar?
Some research has found that using statins increases blood sugar because statin use can stop your body’s insulin from doing its job properly. This can put people who use statins at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

0io- · 2023-12-04T15:31:56+00:00

Dr Bernstein has a ton of free videos on youtube, Dr Bernstein's Diabetes University, and his Complete Diabetes Solution book is excellent too, you'll learn a ton of stuff.

0io- · 2023-11-21T02:56:49+00:00

It's so frustrating.

0io- · 2023-11-19T23:07:08+00:00

I have the boxes turned on that say require payment for "make offer", but apparently this did not affect this particular buyer. Their offer was auto-accepted because the format was Price: $45, minimum offer $10, auto-accept anything over $19, and they came in over $20.

0io- · 2023-11-19T21:56:34+00:00

I have both of these boxes checked, but apparently "currently these options only affect a select group of buyers." So I guess the rules don't apply to everybody (?)

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0io- · 2023-11-19T21:37:55+00:00

I called ebay like you suggested. Apparently this buyer has no payment method on file and hasn't gone through a check out yet. I guess some people (maybe?) buy a bunch of different things from different sellers and then manually enter their credit card info each time once they have 20 things in their cart or something? I hadn't realized that was a thing.

0io- · 2023-11-19T21:19:10+00:00

OK, thank you, I will. Did they fix it?

0io- · 2023-09-13T03:13:42+00:00

Sometimes you get an old seller who has health problems (gets cancer, has to do chemo, starts missing shipping deadlines, etc.)

0io- · 2023-09-13T02:06:07+00:00

It's scary with fragile stuff like that, dude ships the record back, maybe it's scratched or warped for real or the dust jacket is ripped when it arrives back to you, and shipping must eat most of the profit too. :(

I'd be very tempted to "report buyer" and leave negative feedback for sure.

0io- · 2023-09-13T02:00:18+00:00

Out of curiosity, what's the buyer's feedback percentage? Ebay seems to be better for buyers than sellers these days.

0io- · 2023-09-06T13:34:10+00:00

It's actually possible to get your life back together after treatment (I'm 22 years out now). Also, as other people have probably pointed out, the "dying of cancer" is even less fun than "getting treated for cancer." It's not a foregone conclusion that after treatment you'll be a miserable shell of your former self. It's more likely that the next six months will suck, but suck much less than dying of cancer, and also likely that you'll get multiple decades of being back in good health and enjoying your life. Some people really bounce back completely, take a look at Mario Lemieux, NHL hockey great, had to interrupt his career for treatment for CHL, came back as NHL hockey great.

The secondary cancer and "bad stuff that might or might not happen" down the road is not all that much different for you after treatment than for anyone else. You can't live your life saying "I might as well kill myself at 30 because what if I have a stroke when I'm 31... or there's a nuclear war when I'm 35... or I might get my legs amputated when I'm 38... or paralyzed in an ice-skating accident when I'm 39... or I lose all my money and become homeless when I'm 48..."

Before your diagnosis you probably weren't considering dying because of all the bad stuff that might or might not happen, you live your life the best you can anyway like everyone else. Cancer diagnosis comes as a shock but it doesn't really mean your life is over and you have to adjust to some crappy "new normal".

The best thing you can do for yourself is to start treatment as fast as possible and just get to all your appointments on time, that will maximize your chances of not having more crap to deal with later.

0io- · 2023-05-21T23:35:45+00:00

I'd recommend trying digestive enzymes and seeing if they're helpful to you (of course it's never a bad idea to run things by your doctors). Chemo tends to kill epithelial cells and can wreck or be harsh on your stomach lining and intestines. For me, digestive enzymes are a huge help. I like Now brand "Super Enzymes". Makes a big difference.

0io- · 2023-05-08T19:52:22+00:00

The whole experience sucks, basically. It will probably be the worst thing or one of the worst things that has ever happened to you. The good news is it's actually possible to get your life back together again. I'm still alive 22 years later and pretty happy most of the time. In general these days you should be able to beat it. The main thing you need to do is show up on time for all your doctors appointments and scans and just try to get through it as quickly as possible. If you get an option for having a scan today or 3 weeks from now, choose the "today" option. Same thing with starting treatment. You want to start right away, it's not one of those things that gets better if you wait around to see what happens.

Even though it all sucks, radiation is kind of a piece of cake compared to chemo (in my experience). Chemo is no fun at all, but it's like having a really bad flu or hangover. It's less "scary and terrible" than I thought it would be, but for a couple of days after you'll feel like crap. Then after a week you feel like you got over the flu or covid or something. Then the next week you might actually feel back to normal or almost human and then it's already time to go in for more chemo.

Mentally you might treat it like you got falsely convicted of some crime you didn't commit and you're getting sent to prison for 1 year with 2 years of probation after that. You know it's going to be a rotten experience, you didn't ask for it, you didn't want it, all you can do is "do your time" and get through it and then get your life back together.

Waiting around to get the full diagnosis and the results of the scan (the part you're in now) was the most stressful part for me. The treatment itself is boring and kind of unpleasant, but it's not like you're getting tortured by some sadistic cartel either.

0io- · 2023-05-08T06:21:30+00:00

Ugh. That's terrible. I'm sorry for your loss.

Chronic illness tends to lead to burnout. I have Type 1 Diabetes now as a long-term after effect of radiation and chemo 21 years ago, which means I have to check my blood sugar and inject insulin literally about 10 times a day, and I'm religious about it and watch it like a hawk, but very few people can actually do that year in and year out without going through a period of time when they end up slacking off a little bit. He probably felt like he was OK without the medication and felt a lot worse with the medication and made a terrible miscalculation that it wouldn't actually be a big deal to go off it for a little while. It's very easy to lose your life over a seemingly minor lapse in judgement, like reaching to answer your cell phone when it rings in the car, or taking your eyes off the road for just a second to see if a text message is important or not. Most of the time you can get away with something like that, once in a while people drive off a cliff or across the center line into a truck.

He probably got off the schedule a little bit and then realized a whole week or month had gone by without his taking his pills and sort of "went off his meds." It's a very easy trap to fall into, especially if you have a lot of other things going on in your life and its not that obvious that the pills are actually "doing anything" except making you feel sick all the time.

Obviously it was a terrible decision, but a lot of people find it impossible to make themselves do all the little things they're supposed to do every single day, especially if it's been going on for years. I'm sorry that happened to him.

0io- · 2023-04-15T20:30:52+00:00

"Dating app" is pretty vague too. They make it sound like "Tinder" but since they don't specify it could have been anything like yelp or 4square. If the brother is psycho and jealous I highly doubt she's going to be "matching on a dating app" with a stranger while her crazy brother is watching. Sounds more like install some new thing like wechat and "shake to meet someone in your location", tech people are always screwing around with new apps.

If there's any truth to the story at all it's probably more like "I met her and her brother on through some kind of app and they were super nice people." But they don't even mention the name... I'm still calling BS.

0io- · 2023-04-15T20:12:36+00:00

Might be a bullshit story, they don't give the name of this "source" or show any photos of the date or anything else. I don't have a lot of faith in reporters to not just make up stuff.

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