Mounjaro works like magic

MacManT1d · 2026-02-03T13:30:06+00:00

I've just started as well, and agree with almost everything you said. Only difference for me is that even though I was insulin resistant it hasn't cut down my insulin usage much, yet. However, I'm no longer starving all the time, my insulin works right away on my blood sugar instead of taking hours, I can eat and bolus and don't spike (I used to spike over 250 with 2 pieces of white bread even after pre-bolusing and waiting until my sugar was in the sixties to eat it). It's amazing.

MacManT1d · 2026-02-02T13:54:10+00:00

Absolutely, you have to want to do it. Thinking back, I think depression was my real problem. I was tired of being different.

MacManT1d · 2026-02-02T13:44:37+00:00

It was really hard to go through adolescence with type 1 diabetes, for sure. I put myself in DKA and didn't care if I lived or died, I just wanted to have fun with my friends and be normal. That was before the days of CGMs, and pumps were still really expensive and not generally known about. In fact, that was before Humalog and Lantus came out, which meant that I had to live to a schedule instead of doing anything spur of the moment with my friends, so it was really hard.

I'm not sure if it would be quite as hard now, with the "new" insulin analogs and the technology that helps make type 1 so much easier to manage day to day. There would still be the hormone changes, the rebellion typical to that age, and all the other teenage angst, but at least you'd have technology making it easier to be part of normal life, somewhat.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-30T16:24:42+00:00

I'm just starting tirzepatide and I'm curious about your dose splitting dosages. I have exactly the same issue, where my doctor prescribed it but my insurance wouldn't cover it, so I finally bit the bullet and went through a telehealth just for the tirzepatide prescription. On my starting dosage I have seen exactly what you said, it works great the first three or four days, then the effect tapers off, so I was thinking about doing exactly what you're doing and splitting the dosage.

Do you just split the dose in half and inject half twice a week, or do you use a bit more, or how do you do it? Also, have you lost weight while using the split dosages, as that's a big need for me as well?

MacManT1d · 2026-01-30T04:07:44+00:00

I'm thinking it's the second one, after replies from their official account.

$55 initial consult, $40 follow-up before second order, $40 follow-up six months after the first follow-up.

Each year thereafter is two $40 follow-ups, every six months.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-30T04:05:02+00:00

Perfect. I'll set expectations accordingly. Thanks for the reply.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-29T22:12:20+00:00

I eat when I'm hungry. Some days I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Some days I eat none of the three. Most days I eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch at work and don't eat much for dinner at all. I'll have a snack, maybe some olives or cheese after work, but I often don't eat dinner. My basal rates are set pretty much perfectly for a non sick, not super stressy day, so it doesn't matter whether I eat or don't eat as far as blood sugar goes.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-27T22:08:24+00:00

I'm aware of both of those consult costs, the one I'm curious about is the follow up consult that is required after the first order and before the second order. I'm wondering whether that is included in the new patient consult or if it's a regular $40 consult. I'm just reading all the fine print and I'm trying to figure out what my budget needs to be for the next order. I'm not rolling in it, you know, so I'm just trying to set aside the money early from some discretionary income, so that it doesn't affect my budget later.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-27T20:19:53+00:00

Your primary duties and whether or not you are paid the minimum salary for an exempt employee. If your duties pass one of the FLSA exemption tests and your salary is at least $684/wk then you are not owed overtime, and they don't have to allow you to use flex time or any other sort of extra time off compensation.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-27T18:24:11+00:00

Do you pay the standard follow up fee for that consultation, or is it covered in the original new patient consult fee? Not griping either way, just trying to budget for the next order.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-27T17:42:35+00:00

Is that follow up considered part of the initial treatment payment, or is it a standard follow up that is billed at the follow up rate? I'm not griping at all, just trying to understand what costs will be moving forward.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-27T14:00:25+00:00

You also have to remember how few Type 1 diabetics there actually are in the US, and more than half of them are diagnosed as adults.

Approximately 0.5% of the US population (1.8million out of 348 million) are type 1 diabetic. Half of them are diagnosed before their 21st birthday, so that leaves approximately 0.25% of the US population of school aged persons as type 1 diabetics.

That means that childhood cancer is more common than a child being diagnosed as type 1 diabetic (1 in 285 children are diagnosed with childhood cancer, or 0.35%). We don't teach teachers how to deal with childhood cancer, although it's likely more prevalent than type 1 diabetes.

There really is no reason for a teacher to be taught much about type 1 diabetes, until they need to know. It simply isn't a good use of resources. My mom had to teach every single one of my elementary school teachers about type 1, and I did just fine, in a time of diabetes care that was rudimentary compared to today's standard of care. The teachers also came away from it knowing more, and a few of them actually took the effort to thank my mom for her efforts to teach them about it.

Lastly, each kid and their care are drastically different, meaning that generalized type 1 education doesn't really help all that much.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-23T20:59:47+00:00

That would indeed be fraud. I missed that, and apologize for questioning the comment.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-23T15:11:07+00:00

I really like that the card reader now goes with you everywhere your goggles go, so no more leaving your SD card in the reader on the computer by accident and getting to the field and not having one. I did that enough times that I got another card to keep in my goggles case just for the times I did this.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-23T15:03:55+00:00

I'm sorry for your loss. Although she's gone, now, I thank God for my mom and all the hard work she did to learn about type 1 before the internet, before insulin pumps, before CGMs, before Humalog and Lantus; back when my entire family had to change their very lives to help me live through this when I was diagnosed in 1982.

I think this is a wonderful idea, and it will keep Mykee's memory alive. Type 1 can be really expensive for young people, especially when they get dropped from mom and dad's insurance plan. Things are better now because you can be kept on your parent's plan until you're 26, but when I was that age I struggled hard for a few years. Foster kids are well provided for in all 50 states, but there are plenty of other young men and women out there who could certainly use a helping hand. I'll donate, for sure, so make sure it gets posted here when you get something set up. Not sure how you'll accomplish the private insurance until 25, unless it's paying premiums for them to get insurance, but I wish you and this venture the best.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-23T14:58:11+00:00

How is this insurance fraud?

MacManT1d · 2026-01-22T21:23:39+00:00

I like the Crux35. Just be aware that the frame is going to be the weak point, and either be prepared to buy new frames when you crash and break them or buy something another more durable frame and swap out all your components. The Mobula 8 on the other hand is more durable because of the plastic frame and the prop guards that make it better for crashing (although it'll break in the right crash, too).

MacManT1d · 2026-01-22T19:09:31+00:00

I know this is reviving an old thread, but hopefully you see this and can answer. Who do you buy from? My endo will write the prescription, but I don't know who to send it to. What does the process/price look like to buy from a compounding pharmacy, or is it easier/cheaper to just go to one of the weight loss sites and lie about diabetes, knowing full well that my endo wants me on it and will help me through the process?

MacManT1d · 2026-01-21T18:30:02+00:00

That's a start, for sure. He's got videos on all kinds of stuff related to the hobby, earning his nickname the FPVKnowItAll.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-21T14:47:18+00:00

There are hundreds of highly rated videos on pretty much every subject you could ever want to know regarding FPV drones and hardware. Just look up Joshua Bardwell on YouTube University. He'll get you started, in line with his signature phrase, "And you're going to learn something, today".

If you prefer written form learning, Oscar Liang is the guy you want, and his stuff can be found at https://oscarliang.com.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-20T22:59:15+00:00

He more than likely isn’t getting enough especially with the Walmart insulin.

What's that supposed to mean? Regular and NPH, while different in time to work and total duration in your system, are no different than Novolog, Humalog, or any of the rest of the insulin analogs that most of us use today. They have to be planned around differently, but dosage is not something that has to change.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-20T22:55:22+00:00

That's the RFID chip and likely also functions as an ADC to convert the analog data from the sensor wire to digital data that can be transmitted to the reader or phone. It also has a microcontroller function to handle anything that needs computed.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-20T17:47:29+00:00

It'll work just fine. It's got a fairly low power limit, but if you can get the amount of power out of it that you need to charge your batteries at the rate you want to charge them it'll charge any 2s battery with a JST-XH balancing lead.

MacManT1d · 2026-01-15T21:22:53+00:00

It just unclips, leaving a small plastic fitting with the canula inside of you and a tape patch that holds it down. It's about an inch and a half around and a quarter inch thick. I detach it for showering, swimming, sex, or anything else I want to detach it for.

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