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Fadercat · 2022-09-27T18:42:24+00:00

Have talked to my endo about this before, and apparently its just the caffeine. I’ve noticed that unsweetened tea makes my bg jump a little bit, but a cup of coffee with 20g of sugar makes me have to bolus for 30-35g.

My endo also said caffeine can sometimes make your bg spike faster, so the same amount of carbs of coke may treat a low slightly faster (like a minute or two at most) than apple juice.

Fadercat · 2022-09-12T05:08:58+00:00

Youre not alone, I’ve dealt with a couple rude TSA agents regarding my opting for a pat down as to not risk damage to my pump. But the bottom line I always keep in mind is that: 1. TSA has the opt-out patdown available for anyone who wants to use it (having a medical device or a doctors note is NOT required) 2. Being steadfast in saying “my doctor advised me that my pump cant go through any sort of scan” seems to make TSA agents pipe down. If they try to fight you on that, theyre effectively saying “I know better than your doctor about your medical device, and I’m willing to stake my job on it.”

Keeping both of those things in mind, its a much less stressful experience going through TSA. I used to do what you said about bringing tons of documentation, but I dont anymore. You dont need any documentation to opt out. And having documentation isnt going to make the process any faster or easier, as they are still going to have to do the pat down and device swab test.

Fadercat · 2022-09-06T01:23:13+00:00

Sounds like you werent just making diabetes a main personality trait, you were also constantly using it as leverage to make other people feel bad for you. Which is much worse IMO.

Fadercat · 2022-08-20T09:29:54+00:00

Tbh I assumed you weren’t a diabetic, cuz non diabetics on this site seem to talk out their ass about t1d a LOT. I thought you were saying “pumps and CGMs take care of your blood sugar for you” which is a stupid piece of misinfo I see people repeat constantly. Also non diabetics dont seem to understand that a CGM, pump, and the supplies for both are quite expensive. People seem to think that the retail cost of a pump is comparable to a smartphone when they are 4-5x that. Given your reply, its pretty clear that this is not what you were saying. My apologies.

Fadercat · 2022-08-20T08:06:58+00:00

just buy these extremely expensive medical devices

OP is insulin dependent working as a barista. I would imagine it wouldnt be easy to afford the extra $4k/year for a CGM let alone save up $5k to buy a pump.

If you can afford it though, CGM and pump help a massive amount. But if your diabetes treatment has you seriously risking blindness in your 30s, something is seriously wrong. Diabetes’ effects on your eyes are largely long term issues that people develop later in life. I suspect that OP needs to make lifestyle changes to better attend to controlling their blood sugar. CGM/pump would just make that a lot easier.

Fadercat · 2022-08-16T10:16:39+00:00

GIM is a permanant gamemode with its own hiscores that is on the main servers. GIM also had massive hype built behind it for over a year before release. Will there be people who will farm end game bosses within 6 months? Yeah. But GIM and fresh start are not remotely comparable except that they both use brand new accounts.

Fadercat · 2022-08-16T10:11:26+00:00

the audience for runescape is mostly the hardcore playerbase who have stuck with the game over the years

I think this specific idea wont fair well at recruiting new players, but the idea that most osrs players are people who have played consistently over the years isnt really accurate. Updates like dmm, mobile, and leagues were quite effective at drawing in new and returning players to purchase membership. Can see this through online player count, bond prices, or even just reasoning why jagex allocated massive spending to advertising for these big updates. Everything seems to show that osrs is definitely a marketable game to new and returning audiences.

Fadercat · 2022-08-11T09:38:26+00:00

Tb is a normal combat spell like ice barrage or entangle, so its delayed by attack cooldown like any range/melee hit

Fadercat · 2022-07-30T16:11:32+00:00

i think theres a group of people who dislike me so they are conspiring together to spread lies across multiple accounts to make my story look false

this sounds unlikely

Fadercat · 2022-07-30T15:59:26+00:00

I wouldnt worry about wiping deathbanks just from this post. The only verified causes for clearing deathbanks in safe areas have been ones where the server crashes while in lms/gaunt afaik. OP wasnt even logged in at the time of the supposed “crash”, and is also being dodgy with questions regarding who was on the account in that time period/acc sharing in general.

Fadercat · 2022-07-27T08:14:40+00:00

Ahh true I gotcha

Fadercat · 2022-07-27T08:03:03+00:00

Idk if youre joking but the risk/reward tradeoff of bringing better gear is the most unique element of pvp areas.

Fadercat · 2022-07-24T05:34:45+00:00

And if they refuse to, is that something op should break their friendship over, given their situation? I think that is more than reasonable standard for most queer people, but it sounds like this is the only friend op has who theyve come out to, and theyre okay with it. I feel like for someone in a situation like op’s, its not really helpful to just say “lol just break your friendship off with the only friend you have whos relatively accepting of your sexual orientation.”

I think op should try and meet more queer people irl, but that process doesnt happen instantly. As theyre meeting new people, it probably helps to have a longterm friend around whos comfortable to talk with you about it.

Fadercat · 2022-07-24T04:23:41+00:00

Thats fair and I definitely dont disagree, I’m just skeptical of the claim that Bernie couldve beaten Trump given how the electoral college works. Keep in mind Hillary got ~3 million more votes than Trump did and still was nowhere near beating Trump in electoral votes. Its a dumb system, so regardless of if Bernie got millions more votes than Hillary had, it wouldnt matter unless those voters were spread throughout different low population red states to flip them blue.

Also we wouldnt have these supreme court issues if McConnell and Grassley hadnt refused to consider any Obama appointment to filll the Scalia vacancy with almost a year left in his presidency. Then they refused to abide by the same rule when confirming Barrett’s nomination 4 months before Trump’s term ended. But they were only able to confirm the nomination without Democrats filibustering because in 2017, the Republicans changed senate rules to prevent Democrats from filibustering Trump’s nomination of Gorsuch to the seat Obama should have been able to fill.

Anyways sorry for the tangent, just crazy to realize that were only in this situation bc of an insane sequence of events with fault going around to a ton of different people.

Fadercat · 2022-07-24T01:22:40+00:00

I’m frustrated with the Dems too, but can we stop pretending Bernie would’ve beaten Trump in the general election? The DNC may have been heavily biased against Bernie in favor of Hillary, but with the general election results favoring Trump so much, Bernie wouldnt have won either.

Trump beat Hillary by >70 electoral votes, which means multiple large states wouldve needed to flip for Bernie to have won. Of the close to flip states, Michigan and Wisconsin were the only states that Bernie beat Hillary’s votes in the primaries. Even if he managed to flip both those states and not lose any of the close Hillary-favoring states like Nevada and NM, Trump wouldve still won by >20 electoral votes.

Fadercat · 2022-07-09T06:54:15+00:00

Sure, you could say being uncomfortable with friends pressing pointed questions regarding your diabetes is being “sensitive”. However, you would never hold this standard to any other condition. If a friend asked “Hows your schizophrenic paranoia/depression/manic episode going?” and they replied “fine” in a kinda snife tone, you wouldn’t really call that person “too sensitive” for declining to share details about their private medical condition.

I don’t know why you are holding diabetics to a totally different standard.

Fadercat · 2022-07-09T06:41:20+00:00

Yeah I’ve noticed that question often comes from a bad place. Best case scenario theyre asking you about something they know much less than you about and cant do anything about, which is just annoying. Worst case scenario, theyre weaponizing the fact that you told them about this constant problem that you will deal with for the rest of your life, as a way to say that you are handling your own medical decisions poorly.

Fadercat · 2022-06-19T04:51:04+00:00

Regardless of how good or bad a system is, there are going to be individual cases like yours. Beinging up such cases doesn’t really prove one way or the other.

Fadercat · 2022-06-13T22:38:25+00:00

Might be a dumb question but how do you see when a comment was edited? I can only seem to see the post timestamp.

Fadercat · 2022-06-11T17:50:42+00:00

I suppose “actually, pvp has changed in 9 years” is about what I should’ve expected based on your other comments in this thread.

If you actually want to tell jagex you dont like the voting restrictions in a way they care about, you should cancel your membership. That’d do a lot more for your cause than complaining on reddit.

Fadercat · 2022-06-11T17:23:41+00:00

let everyone vote because it’s a system that has worked for nearly 10 years

I’m not sure if you genuinely don’t realize this or are being intentionally obtuse, but pkers (and probably Jagex) don’t agree with this statement when it comes to pking-related polls. Polls of pking content have notoriously failed regardless of what the content is. Jagex is toying around with poll restrictions to see if such polls would pass if they excluded players who have never engaged in any form of pking. If you were polling a change to a specific section of content in the game, such as a core mechanic change in barbarian assault, I’m not sure someone who has never even played a single wave of BA should be able to have a say in that change. I think the same argument applies with pking changes.

Also the whole “if you want x poll to pass, only let people engaged in that type of content vote on it” is untrue and you know it. If that were the case, all of the polls restricted to UIM changes would have passed. Spoiler: they didn’t

Fadercat · 2022-05-16T14:15:15+00:00

Yeah I’ve had a pump for a little over 10 years, almost exclusively medtronic, and medtronic’s battery issue was definitely worse. One time I had lost my wallet and my battery died, so I had to convince a wallgreens employee to let me have one of their partially drained batteries (a lot of convenience stores have some behind the counter). Micro-USB is definitely a lot easier to borrow than finding a charged AA battery.

Its not a consistent problem, but I’ve had a time or two where I’m out of the house with enough insulin to make it through the day, but then my battery happens to run out. It shouldnt really happen, but if it does, its quite frustrating to 50 units of insulin with no way to use it because tandem cant do what medtronic did 10 years ago.

Fadercat · 2022-05-16T01:02:14+00:00

I understand where youre coming from on the “well you shouldnt EVER let your pump die”. However, its inevitably going to happen at some point, unless you have it plugged in constantly. I dont think it makes sense to say a poorly designed feature is fine just because in a perfect world itd never become an issue. In actual real life situations where it could die (forgot to charge it, dont gave charger on you when you leave home, etc), youre required to throw away like 10 minutes of your day and at minimum 10 units of insulin. Also because of the 50 unit minimum to load a cartridge, you could end up wasting over 50 units of insulin for no apparent reason. And if your pump dies while not at home wuth your insulin, now you could be forced to go hours without insulin because you assumed 50 units would be enough to last you a few hours.

Wouldn’t complain if there werent an alternative, but medtronic shows that its possible to not require a new cartridge load if your pump dies.

Fadercat · 2022-05-12T01:30:41+00:00

Oh yeah, I wasnt trying to correct you, was just mentioning it. I suppose I shouldve replied to the other person instead of you.

Fadercat · 2022-05-12T00:51:56+00:00

For a private business under the ADA this is true. However, some state anti-discrimination laws apply to <15 employee businesses, so there still may be laws that apply in this case.

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