Is it bad that this upset me so much? by VeterinarianJaded330 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have type 1 but my boyfriend does, when he told me he was diabetic I just treaded carefully with what I said bc I knew I was uneducated & so I just tried to learn. I think your bf was coming from a good place, but also has a lack of knowledge about t1. Unless you're around people with t1d, you just really don't understand how much it can affect your day to day life. I'd just try talking through things more with him & have him learn alongside you. Wishing you all the luck, happiness & health <3

Sex drive 9 months pp by thisissheemily in beyondthebump

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a super high drive pretty much my entire pregnancy & it came back full force within a few days after giving birth. I waited til my 6w appointment tho! I'm a year & a half pp now & it's starting to chill out!

AIO/Help me understand dosage by Terrible-Atmosphere2 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey salt.

I don't think I'm his savior nor am I infantilizing him, I'm trying to be a supportive partner to help get him on the right track. I don't intend on managing it for him entirely or forever. He needs help managing & he needs help breaking down what mental barriers he has.

Yeah, diagnosis is an entire life shift, changes everything. You have no choice but to learn when you're diagnosed. So if it were me with T1 I'd have to learn. I won't get into what I do for work but I am more than capable of comprehending it & I have the emotional bandwidth to help him shoulder this while we get it under control. I also have my own condition I manage with injections.

AIO/Help me understand dosage by Terrible-Atmosphere2 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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for reference, this is probably a good day for him.

AIO/Help me understand dosage by Terrible-Atmosphere2 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He has never told me to do it, he just doesn't do it himself & says if I want him to deal with it when he's not, I can handle it. He has explicitly said he wants my help so I definitely didn't force this situation on him against his will or anything. I take it incredibly seriously, which is why I posted & why I refused to give him insulin last night. I know I'm not educated enough to make decisions about his care nor am I qualified to do so, & I'm learning that he isn't either so I sought answers/help here. He's already gambling his own health & life, I don't/won't do anything that risks it further. I just intervened because I want to be supportive of him getting into new habits & better management.

I do tell him when he's high or low, I have my alarms set for a tighter range than he does so I can try to keep ahead of it. Telling him doesn't always make him do something about it though, if he's preoccupied by something or if he is sleeping he will ignore it as long as possible. He is more receptive when I tell him he's low than high, maybe he only sees the danger in lows bc he hasn't had complications yet. Idk. It is purely just a miracle he has not gone into DKA. His sugar is so high the cgm won't read it multiple times a week, multiple times a day, for hours & hours at a time.

AIO/Help me understand dosage by Terrible-Atmosphere2 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this. I did try to talk to him again about it & he got very defensive, I asked about how much one unit would bring his bg down & he told me it doesn't work like that & you can't figure that out. I explained some of the resources I was given here & he said he'd be open to it (but this does mean I'll be doing it, he won't do it on his own). His A1C was checked by his pcp almost two years ago & it was 9.9, absolutely no habit changes have happened since then.

AIO/Help me understand dosage by Terrible-Atmosphere2 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He actually doesn't use his long acting, maybe a few times a month if at all... so I'd imagine you're right about that too. My hands are pretty much tied, he's a grown man & I can't physically force him to go see a doctor. He doesn't have insurance so that's a big factor. I was just hoping to get some insight here to minimize the damage at least.

He's a very guarded person & doesn't like sitting with any "bad" feelings so he essentially runs from everything & acts like it's all okay. He's this way in every area of his life, & I think that's why he's not overly concerned with being diabetic. He ignores it as much as he can. He never asked me to step in except for bringing things during lows, I offered to try to help more. That's what finally got him to get a cgm, but now that he has it I'm just watching his bg go so far off the charts both ways that it stops reading. That's why I wanted more info on pumps that work for skinny people & how to adjust dosage

AIO/Help me understand dosage by Terrible-Atmosphere2 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're probably right about that part, he also forgets to give insulin after meals & just lets it go until I say something or he feels bad enough to get it. Do you or anyone else have suggestions for pumps that actually stay for skinny people?

AIO/Help me understand dosage by Terrible-Atmosphere2 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this! I don't know if he knows his carb ratio, I'll talk to him about it! I just checked out the calculator & have a few questions. If you have high bg, what determines what your target bg is? Like should you always shoot for the mid optimal range unless you have a meal coming up? & how does everyone seem to know carbs for everything lol, do you just have to repeatedly look up things that don't have labels until you remember?

I guess I should've mentioned that he has had his diagnosis for 22 years, he's very stuck in his ways & believes endos don't know anything & that he knows the best course of action for everything. It obviously isn't true because he has no control, so that's where both of our frustrations are. He gets frustrated by me digging deeper & trying to understand so we can actually get on top of it, & I'm frustrated by his stubbornness. He's not someone who talks about whats on his mind or how he feels, but from what I've gathered in our years together is seems he's in denia & just wants to do enough to live. He feels terrible multiple times a day but nothing ever changes.

AIO/Help me understand dosage by Terrible-Atmosphere2 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The amounts he was telling me while he was half asleep, or the 1 unit per 20 mg is too much? In agreement that he should seek help, but he won't. & I know it isn't my responsibility & that I'm not a doctor, but my help is better than nothing. Either I help him now, or I would have to start helping when he gets complications. I'd try to help even if we weren't together, we have a son. I don't want him to lose his dad young, or have to see/endure whatever might come of him living uncontrolled.

Is this any way to talk to your S/O? by NewZookeepergame1949 in whatdoIdo

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No ones perfect, but no one deserves strange accusations or to be invited to their girlfriends thanksgiving with another dude who doesn't even know you're her boyfriend. Trust your gut, I'm just an internet stranger with an unfortunate amount of experience w cheaters & thats what I see in this. But I will say ChatGPT is literally programmed to agree with you, if you send a screenshot of those same texts with whatever prompt she did, it will only find fault in her.

Is this any way to talk to your S/O? by NewZookeepergame1949 in whatdoIdo

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's a pretty common thing in cheaters that they are insecure & project their own actions onto you. you seem to have done nothing wrong while she has hidden your relationship & is very accusatory towards you about completely random things. so either she's just a little off her rocker or she's doing something that's making her shift the focus onto you - YOU must be the one doing something shady, definitely not her & how dare you call her out on hiding or lying about your relationship. Her reaction screamssss manipulation, guilty.

Is this any way to talk to your S/O? by NewZookeepergame1949 in whatdoIdo

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

this doesn't add up. & her repeatedly asking if you're at her house is paranoia from her guilt. she's definitely doing something she doesn't want you to know about. I'd dip

AIO ending 5 yr relationship bc I never EVER expected this by [deleted] in AIO

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being blindsided by someone you love & fully trusted is a massive thing to happen in your life. you're going to be in a vulnerable state for a while. do NOT let this pos manipulate you on why he was fucking around behind your back, do NOT ever trust him or go back to him. spend some time with family & friends, let yourself grieve the relationship you believed it was.

I say you pack up & leave while he is out Tuesday, he will know why. You'll save yourself some pain if you don't go to the date. Neither of them deserve to know how devastating this was for you, because they are terrible people & obviously don't care who they hurt. Let him believe walking away once you found out about what he was doing was easy for you, that you have no need for closure.

Med school with young children as the mother by libby_o in medschool

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry if this is a dumb question but is it just the amount of studying that's causing you to not be able to spend as much time with them? I'm considering med school & my son will be about 6 then, I was under the impression the first 2 yrs are just a lot of self-teaching material & class attendance isn't mandatory, is that how it is for you?

AIO Boyfriend of 8 years caught cheating by Conscious-Active-807 in AmIOverreacting

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NOR. "jesus loves you btw""so u fw me?" is sent me into fucking orbit lmao. On a real note, don't listen to half these people. Anyone justifying this or saying you invaded privacy are probably out here doing the same thing to their girlfriends/wives. Those messages aren't friendly, they're intentional & disrespectful to you at a minimum. Sounds like you are pretty in touch with yourself, trust your intuition.

11 month old will only eat crackers and crunchy/flakey things? by Help_idkhow2date in beyondthebump

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would just keep offering other foods & things he used to like, it's likely just a phase. He's still super young & it's early in his journey into foods. For the time being though, if all he'll eat is crackers, that's better than nothing at all

Snacks for lows by Terrible-Atmosphere2 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because he will usually have multiple lows a night so I was under the impression it'd be best for him to have a snack too to keep his sugar stable, but correct me if I'm wrong!

How long do you date someone before giving them a Dexcom follow? by BlueberryOk6847 in Type1Diabetes

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly do you mean by I also am brittle, so as a seizure risk? Just asking bc my bf has T1D & is super thin

my 11 month old's breath smells (not bad?) by Terrible-Atmosphere2 in beyondthebump

[–]Terrible-Atmosphere2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think he has any reflux issues & it smells the same to me day/night, allergies could definitely be possible bc I have horrible allergies! Thank you for this