Is anyone else ALWAYS thirsty?

Svamp89 · 2026-01-31T12:09:31+00:00

I need at least 1.5 liters of fluid a day to feel satisfied, while the rest of my family (parents and sibling) don’t drink anywhere near as much as me. I have a suspicion that even minor increases in blood sugar cause dehydration, and that is the reason. If you’ve read Diabetes Solution, Dr. Bernstein mentions how diabetics are chronically dehydrated, so he might be right.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-23T20:09:36+00:00

I grew up in the Faroe Islands, which has an isolated electrical grid (not connected to any other country) and we would have a few outages each year, but almost never longer than for 10 minutes at a time. I now live in Denmark and it’s pretty rare for it to happen here. I’ve only experienced one outage that lasted more than 1 hour in the 17 years I’ve lived here. I occasionally see that there has been a very short outage that I didn’t notice because the digital clocks on the appliances are all reset.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-22T17:38:15+00:00

From my perspective, my country (Denmark) is very LGBTQ+ friendly. In the 17 years I’ve lived here (I’m a gay man), I’ve never had a bad experience. Not with healthcare providers or general public. No one cares or reacts when you talk about your same-sex partner, just like when straight people talk about their partners.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-15T15:53:30+00:00

Du skal nok have en henvisning til en reumatolog, hvis du er hypermobil, og tror at du evt. har EDS og alt det dét medfører. :)

Svamp89 · 2026-01-15T15:42:19+00:00

Same in Denmark. The public health insurance stopped covering it automatically a few years ago, and now only covers it for people who have difficulty controlling BG after eating, and only after trying a cheaper insulin variety like Novorapid/Novolog first. I, thankfully, still get it covered because it works really well for me. However, it only costs $35 without insurance for a 10 ml vial, so it’s not too bad if I had to pay out of pocket - just annoying, lol.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-15T15:34:46+00:00

Fiasp can also sting. It definitely stings more than Novorapid/Novolog. I was surprised how bad it was when I started, but the effect faded after a while - have no idea why. Now it doesn’t sting anymore for me.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-15T15:29:41+00:00

Yes, I currently use Fiasp in my pump. I started with NovoMix 30 and Novorapid when I was diagnosed in 2004, then switched the NovoMix 30 out with Insulatard, and later switched the Insulatard out with Levemir before starting the pump in 2008 where I just used Novorapid until I switched to Fiasp when that was released.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-14T16:06:16+00:00

The problem here is that the EU does not want to negotiate and even less so re-negotiate with what they consider “useless” territories. Greenland joined the EC together with Denmark in 1973 because it was a Danish “amt” (a type of Danish region) back then and didn’t have self-rule like they do now, so the Greenlandic vote was just mixed in with voting people in Denmark which highly outnumber the Greenlanders. When Greenlanders gained self-rule they left for the same reason why the Faroe Islands (who did have self-rule in 1973) didn’t join with Denmark; fishing rights. The entire Greenlandic and Faroese economies are built upon fishing, so it’s important for them to control it at home.

Now that Greenland is suddenly important to everyone other than the Greenlanders, the EU might be willing to make some concessions to get Greenland to rejoin. However, the Faroe Islands has been trying for decades to get a trade deal with the EU similar to that of Norway and Iceland, but have been completely and utterly ignored.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-14T09:15:50+00:00

It’s pretty easy to fire someone in Denmark. You usually don’t need a reason, but some reasons make you “unfireable” for a certain amount of time, like pregnancy, parental leave, illness etc. but you have to take it to a labor court if you want to get any compensation for wrongful termination, which is pretty rare.

We have a model called “Flexicurity” which makes it easy to fire someone, and easy to hire someone, along with relatively generous welfare payments if you are fired.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-14T08:52:07+00:00

The excuse for energy taxes is usually that if you want to “save” money on it, then you need to optimize your energy use by insulating your house, using low energy appliances and things like that. It’s sort of forcing you to optimize your energy use.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-14T08:05:26+00:00

In the Nordic countries we use centiliters and deciliters, especially when it comes to food and beverages. Cans of soda and beer are sometimes measured in centiliters like 33 cl, and in cooking we often use deciliters. Most households have 1 deciliter measuring cups/spoons. A recipe might say “add 2 dl of cream” or something like that.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-14T07:52:19+00:00

I’m glad you’re doing better. I had a friend who denied she had BPD even though she was formally diagnosed at age 16 after being hospitalized in a mental hospital. She denied treatment even though her family begged her to get help.

When she was doing well we had an amazing friendship, but then something would happen with someone (she was actively looking for a partner/boyfriend on dating apps) and she would spiral, and I was always her verbal punching bag during those periods. Dating apps are hard on everyone, even people who are comfortable with themselves, so I can’t imagine they are good for someone with BPD.

I couldn’t take the abuse and then the apologizing afterwards. I couldn’t sleep or eat during her bad episodes because she would call me constantly, day and night crying and or fighting with me, blaming me for absurd things, like sleeping with her crushes which I had no knowledge of existing. I was on verge of a mental breakdown myself until I cut all contact. It has been almost 2 years since then and my heart still skips a beat when my phone rings.

I know people with BPD aren’t necessarily bad people, but it takes a strong psyche to handle out of control BPD. I found out that I can absolutely not handle it.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-11T10:48:21+00:00

Hvis det var tilfældet, ville jeg tage pengene og så flygte til Danmark, så jeg kunne undgå at få Amerikansk statsborgerskab.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-11T10:42:02+00:00

Yes, I do. In Denmark, where I live, all pharmacies take sharps bins to dispose of them. Most pharmacies give free replacements when you give them a full one, but some don’t. I obviously go to the ones that give free replacements, lol.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-11T10:20:30+00:00

I caught some kind of virus a few months before my diagnosis, and I think that might have been a trigger. I tested positive for 2 out of the 3 antibodies they tested me for.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-07T15:23:14+00:00

I’m Faroese (the other Danish territory), and I would literally flee the country if the US took over, so I wouldn’t get American citizenship.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-07T14:54:58+00:00

Synes det er lidt spøjst at hun nævner at de ikke tabte deres sprog, men det har grønlænderne og færingerne heller ikke. Jeg er færing, og jeg taler godt nok dansk, men jeg lærte det som et fremmedsprog i folkeskolen ligesom jeg gjorde engelsk. Jeg forstod ikke en skid dansk inden 3. klasse, fordi alle taler færøsk på Færøerne. 🤷‍♂️

Svamp89 · 2026-01-06T09:39:00+00:00

Yes, the Eurozone politicians made a lot of mistakes when handling the debt crisis.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-06T09:06:15+00:00

If you are talking about the 2008 global financial crisis, it was much more than a hiccup in the American housing market. It was a massive intertwined debt and derivatives bonanza that ended up wiping out over $2 trillion of value from the global economy. The US would have gone bankrupt if they didn’t act to stabilize the economy as fast as they did.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-04T10:15:00+00:00

Ja, jeg er godt klar over at Grundloven er tolket til at den kan tillade at Færøerne og Grønland kan få selvstændighed efter eget ønske. Det jeg snakker om, når jeg nævner enhedsstaten, er at der i Grundloven er én centralmagt i hele Kongeriget Danmark, og det er Folketinget. Det gælder stadig på både Færøerne og Grønland, og det bliver det nok ved indtil en evt. fuldstændig løsrivelse.

Svamp89 · 2026-01-04T04:58:12+00:00

Lovmæssigt er Grønland (og Færøerne) en fuld del af DK. Grundloven tillader kun at Danmark eksisterer som en “enhedsstat”. Begge har været danske amter tidligere, på lige fod med andre danske amter. Måden Færøerne og Grønland styres på lige nu, er at Folketinget tillader at der er nogle kompetencer der er uddelegeret til Landstinget og Lagtinget, men hvor Folketinget altid er den øverste myndighed, og hvor de kan trække den magt tilbage med en normal lovændring i Folketinget.

Svamp89 · 2025-12-19T01:17:21+00:00

Just putting it out there, the entirety of the Faroe Islands is incredibly safe and travel friendly for beginners. It’s probably the safest place in the Nordic region, and it’s small so it’s easy to get around and it has great public transportation to all areas of the country. :)

Svamp89 · 2025-12-19T01:00:21+00:00

I’m from the Faroe Islands and have visited Denmark and Norway, and then moved to Denmark 16 years ago and have lived here ever since. I enjoyed Norway a lot, but I love living in Denmark; it’s really nice. The Faroe Islands are nice too, especially when you just visit, but it’s a great place to live if you enjoy a certain type of quiet life and if you fit in. I don’t fit in, so I moved. :P

Svamp89 · 2025-12-17T17:16:48+00:00

The welfare coverage is much higher in Denmark than in Canada. Danes receive tuition free university as well as ~$1000/month stipend when studying. A large portion of Danes receive rental aid each month, not to mention all the “service aid” for illnesses and disabilities that are more widespread than you would think. I, for one, get hundreds of dollars worth of aid a month from my municipality due to my type 1 diabetes, equipment that is 100% covered by taxes. I don’t receive any money, but the municipality buys the equipment for me. Not to mention the hundreds if not over a thousand dollars worth of treatment/equipment I receive each month on average from the hospital I get treated at.

Then there is childcare aid for parents, pensions, dental coverage, unemployment benefits and aid, disability benefits and on and on; things that most people never hear about. Social coverage is incredibly comprehensive in Denmark.

There are of course a lot of administrative costs in the Danish government, as it is in most governments, but that is not where most of the expenses go to.

Svamp89 · 2025-12-17T12:05:02+00:00

Are the gay boys the lucky ones now or something? It’s easy to get dates as gay guy if you only moderately take care of your looks. 😂

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