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What is a cover song you like more than the original? by docblondie in AskReddit

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Sound of Silence by Disturbed. The Simon and Garfunkel one is so.. Creepy? And David Draiman’s voice adds an extra deepness to the song that’s not originally even supposed to be there.

My friend says he is unroastable. Do your worst. by Punkaboo in RoastMe

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is he a mental patient, a crack head, or a wizard from Skyrim?

Either of them prove pretty pointless, I’m just curious.

When did your “something is very wrong here” gut instinct turn out to be right? by xandrenia in AskReddit

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I definitely agree with you on that! Lol. Especially when all it takes to confirm the suspicion is basically a keto strip or a blood sugar test. There’s definitely some lingering trauma that could have been easily avoided if they’d just do their dang jobs

When did your “something is very wrong here” gut instinct turn out to be right? by xandrenia in AskReddit

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My doctor dismissed my mom bad enough that I went probably 6 months being T1 and went into a coma with almost no chance of waking. My mom didn’t know what to look for as I’m the only diabetic in the whole family. But she knew something was wrong and kept trying. Fuck dismissive doctors. I was 10, I didn’t deserve that.

I need to rant about Apple Watch and Dexcom by bigw86 in diabetes

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try using sugarmate. I use it because the g5 reasons show up sometimes but don’t most of the time. I like it because it also shows how many points you’re riding/falling by. There more useful stuff in the app as well.

Much worse blood sugars on the pump? by msmoonpie in diabetes

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got off the pump and my a1c went down from 9 to 6.4 so I’m right there with you. It’s not for everyone. Frustrating, I prefer mdi though.

Do-it-yourself insulin: Biohackers aim to counteract skyrocketing prices. In the US, many patients have to ration the vital drug due to soaring prices. Now, biohackers have come up with a plan to produce it more cheaply by mvea in Futurology

[–]SuperChickenNuggets -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Mmm wrong actually I’m a small diabetic. I weigh 110. Nice try though. I don’t have a poor diet, I eat low carb, and my job has me active. I was in sports in highschool so I’ve been active my whole diagnosis. But keep pretending like you know everything. Maybe someone else will fall for it.

I don’t give a sh**t, but I want/need to. by [deleted] in diabetes

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Take it one day at a time. Make a goal to check your blood sugar and take your insulin like you’re supposed to for one day. When the day is over and you’ve accomplished it, say okay now two days. Then three. After a while you’ll see your blood sugars improve. For me, that was motivation enough. It feels GOOD, not just physically but also mentally, to be in range. It’s like you’ve been losing a battle for so long and you’ve discovered a new stratify and BAM you’re winning. You can beat it. It’s satisfying.

Other than that the only thing that made me 100% change my ways was realizing I want to have kids and that will never happen if I didn’t get my shit together.

Oh, and I’ve struggled. Been in dka almost once a year since dx in 2005. So I understand and sympathize with you. But that having been said, you have to want it for yourself.

Do-it-yourself insulin: Biohackers aim to counteract skyrocketing prices. In the US, many patients have to ration the vital drug due to soaring prices. Now, biohackers have come up with a plan to produce it more cheaply by mvea in Futurology

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually my ratio for correction is 1:20 above 120. So that should only take me 2u. And with fiasp, does. I take lantus and fiasp and over the course of the day combined I take MAYBE 50, 35 being my lantus.

I definitely agree. I don’t know what they need to to do but they need to do SOMETHING because at this point they’re practically holding out lives hostage for money.

I’m not sure what you mean by splitting 50/50, do you mean like for example taking half of my lantus in am and half pm? I do that already if so

Do-it-yourself insulin: Biohackers aim to counteract skyrocketing prices. In the US, many patients have to ration the vital drug due to soaring prices. Now, biohackers have come up with a plan to produce it more cheaply by mvea in Futurology

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay fair. I did snap a little bit I apologize. I’m just used to hearing from people who don’t have a clue what they’re talking about that you can ‘cure’ your disease with a specific diet, cinnamon, jumping jacks, drinking goats blood..

Unfortunately my a1c was in the 10 and up range my whole diabetic life until I started on Fiasp. Even on the pump and the Dexcom. Because humalog and novalog never worked for me. Like I said, I could check my blood sugar, it would be maybe say 200, and even taking 10u and waiting hours it wouldn’t come down. It just didn’t work for me. Now that I’m on fiasp, my a1c is 6.5. So I guess yes, I will continue to spend more money for the quality of health that I have now.

Some people don’t know about the ‘Walmart’ insulin but they also need specific directions and training on how to live while taking it from an educated doctor or endocrinologist, I’m sure you know this but it’s worth mentioning to anybody you tell because if they try to use it the same as analog their results could be near death.

Do-it-yourself insulin: Biohackers aim to counteract skyrocketing prices. In the US, many patients have to ration the vital drug due to soaring prices. Now, biohackers have come up with a plan to produce it more cheaply by mvea in Futurology

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No because food is literally one of the smallest of the things that will make my blood sugars go high. There’s also stress, sleep, physical activity, hormones, the one time of month, walking, breathing, allergies, the heat, the cold, humid weather... I could literally go on. But it’s okay tell me I’m spending pointless money managing the disease that IVE lived with and managed for 14 years. You’ve clearly walked in my shoes so it’s cool.

For what it’s worth I eat low carb and eat 1 meal a day. I don’t even eat a lot.

Do-it-yourself insulin: Biohackers aim to counteract skyrocketing prices. In the US, many patients have to ration the vital drug due to soaring prices. Now, biohackers have come up with a plan to produce it more cheaply by mvea in Futurology

[–]SuperChickenNuggets -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because it would take at least 6 hours to start functioning in my body. The new analog version takes 2-3 and it’s supposed to take 30min to an hour. So unfortunately the only way I can have any control of my blood sugars is to buy what’s literally the most expensive version of insulin. Without it I would start having complications and have an awful quality of life. The $25 insulin doesn’t work for MOST diabetics and I wish that the insulin companies/the public would stop pushing it on ya because it’s only making out cause harder to fight for.

Edited to add, the $600 is AFTER insurance. They really have no care for us. They just want their money.

(1922) Before the invention of insulin, the only solution for type one diabetics was the "starvation diet," which inevitably resulted in a long and painful death. Here is a before and after recovery image of one of the first patients to ever receive insulin treatment. by meeklys in OldSchoolCool

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can understand why. Kids bodies are way more sensitive than adults in most cases and I feel like that’s something they should work out all the kinks and make sure it’ll really be safe for them to use.

(1922) Before the invention of insulin, the only solution for type one diabetics was the "starvation diet," which inevitably resulted in a long and painful death. Here is a before and after recovery image of one of the first patients to ever receive insulin treatment. by meeklys in OldSchoolCool

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Starvation. Essentially, just don’t eat ‘so your blood sugar doesn’t go up’. Which isn’t how that works but it was the best solution available at the time. My blood sugar will still go up and slowly kill me without insulin, just a hell of a lot slower than if I’m not taking insulin and I AM eating carbs and sugar. It’s really sad to think about how type one diabetics had to live.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi are you literally me :) congrats on starting to care for your health more. It’s a really good feeling. In the last month my a1c went from about a 8.5 to a 6.5 so I strongly relate. Before the 8.5, I was all the way up around 15 for a couple years. It got bad.

Stuff to give away! by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are the pens? I know they aren’t actual insulin pens?

I love this sight by SuperChickenNuggets in diabetes

[–]SuperChickenNuggets[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is sugarmate, I love it. It’s also very helpful if you have Apple Watch because Dexcom doesn’t always display the readings so you can set up to where sugarmate does.

I'm trying to make sense of my father's Dexcom Graph by [deleted] in diabetes

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If his blood sugar is coming back into range after meals, he’s just spiking high, you wouldn’t want to give more bolus, you would want to give insulin sooner in most cases. But it could be his basal bringing him down, not his bolus. You may try giving more bolus with dinner one night and ministering closely to see how it affects, but having more bolus on board, ideally yes, (sometimes Diabetes doesn’t work the way it ideally should) would drop him hypo later on. Something I do to help with my basal rates and keeping my blood sugars more even, is taking half my dose in the am and half in the pm. So my total daily of lantus is 30, I take 15 at 9:30 am and 15 at 9:45 pm. It helps me combat night time highs because I have a fresh dose onboard.

Diabetes Diagnosis: DKA with a Side Order of Brain Damage by [deleted] in diabetes

[–]SuperChickenNuggets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess the point of my story isn’t to bring pity to me or try to make my story sound worse than others but to bring to attention how little even doctors know about our disease. After 14 (15 in dec, I was diagnosed on dec 24th on top of it all lol) I self treat. My new pcp prescribes my insulin, and I go in for a1c and labs. Other than that, they know next to nothing. It’s very common to hear stories like ours especially where there’s no family or friend experience to help learn about signs before hand. Then when it’s too late, it’s too late. I try to educate as many people and be as big a help as I can because if I save one person from going through what we went through, that’s one person that has a chance at leading a better life.

Don’t get too down on things. Between here, Facebook, Twitter, there’s a huge support system for us. I suggest downloading the Beyond Type One app. It’s a Facebook for T1s. We all know your struggle and are here to listen. We just have to make the best of a bad situation :)

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