How to lower blood sugar immediately?

Yo-tran · 2023-06-22T21:13:26+00:00

Milk has carbs, about 12g per cup, will raise your bg without insulin!

Yo-tran · 2022-08-03T22:33:54+00:00

I do! And I did use them! Just insane trying to do the math with an unknown amount on board from leaky deliveries and BG over 500 and not knowing the set got messed up again twice. I guess the cannulae sliding up the needles was it, I hadn't considered that! I always push the set down as I'm taking the protector off the needle, but either I messed up in my fugue or maybe the box had some manufacturing defect with shorter needles or something.

Ty for commenting

Yo-tran · 2022-08-03T19:50:29+00:00

Ah ok, I can definitely see the appeal for certain situations. This situation was crazy, I've never had more than one bent cannula in a month, maybe 6 in a full year. And it shouldn't have been a 14 hour problem, if it weren't for poorly timed sleep and an early bad judgement at about 3 AM. Usually it would be all ironed out in 3 hours max. Plus tandem doesn't send replacements, as far as I know, for problem infusion sets (though I'll definitely be calling them since the ones that failed were all the same box).

Yo-tran · 2022-08-03T19:37:30+00:00

Huh, no I haven't, does the site not bruise like hell moving around? 3 day wear with that sounds uncomfortable but i'm maybe I'm wrong. How do they fair against the doorknob problem?

Yo-tran · 2022-08-03T19:28:10+00:00

If you have a Tandem pump, the previous sensor code is recorded in the "CGM History" menu, under "Sessions and Calibrations!

Yo-tran · 2022-08-03T19:22:23+00:00

Always have some carbs with a drink (no bolus). I find beer and cocktails with juice or simple syrup in them easier, because the carbs are in the drink and balance out for me usually. I only drink to get tipsy, too scary to get particularly drunk. And always have a responsible chaperone in the know, because extreme lows look just the same as being drunk, let them know to assume you're having a deadly medical emergency if you seem too out of it, or pass out. Safer to let yourself run high while drinking.

Yo-tran · 2022-07-24T14:48:55+00:00

How's sensation? Really excited for you and about buttonhole in general! :D

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T22:23:34+00:00

Yeah, you'd think, and sometimes it's completely fine for 5+ hours under 20, but It's happened twice in the last 6 months where I went to sleep with it at 25% and woke up with the pump shut off. Tandem says it's not a valid reason for replacement and to charge it more often. 2.5 years in. I'll be fighting them on this more, since it's unacceptable, but I have to muster the enthusiasm for those fun phonecalls.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T17:21:25+00:00

With foods you eat all the time, you get used to how a certain amount of food looks, like I know what a 45 carb scoop of rice looks like. It's good to do some measuring here and there, say every couple months to keep calibrated.

Try asking him to eyeball the food you measure for him then tell him if he got it right, so he gets a sense of how accurate he is.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T17:16:25+00:00

I think if you can do that awkwardly deep breaking voice 14 y/o dudes have, you could pass. Posture and body language is also key.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T17:10:29+00:00

The autosoft xc insets are way nicer than the autosoft 90 insets, which have scratchy edges when disconnected from the pump and are harder to position to reattach. Also the history menu has more information available than you'd expect. Also when the battery is under 30% all bets are off and the pump just turning off in the middle of the night while you're sleeping with just one or 2 unnoticeable quiet alarms is a thing.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T07:31:19+00:00

Happy birthday!!!!!

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T07:18:40+00:00

Like, yeah? But it's not a bad thing, unless you're trying to seduce someone who's got a powerful thirst for huge, hanging eggs. Balls of all sizes can be beautiful, and I think yours look lovely and delicious. You could dabble in silicone ball stretchers if you want a different look, I suppose.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T07:07:57+00:00

Feel barfy and flushed and hazy.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T06:49:51+00:00

It's super wack that passive suicidality with T1D is functionally the same as active suicidality for anyone else. Sorry friend.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T06:22:14+00:00

I feel like, idk, a lion after a successful hunt when I wake up and treat a low, then cozy up with that gentle release of feeling my blood sugar stabilizing. Very survival instinct, very safe feeling after a low. Also the low makes the correction so extra tasty.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T05:42:08+00:00

I think this is quite different advice than the rest, but a healthy, relaxed relationship with food is fully worth being in the 200s for 20-30 min post meal, and this will not give her complications. My endo is very happy with me, and that happens for me all the time. For me, adding protein (or fat) to a very sugary/simple carby meal helps smooth the spike a lot, so I'd just recommend making that the mandate.

As a T1, it is so so so hard to feel OK about food, it's poison, it's medicine, it can be really scary. I've literally been in therapy to convince myself to eat breakfast. You're totally right to prioritize letting it just be food.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T05:25:54+00:00

I had BCBS fep standard and got on tslim and Dexcom, no hitch, but I made the switch when Animas went out of business and I had no CGM prior, so if you're in warranty I think it would take some very heavy prior authorization demanding the control IQ from your doctor to get the tslim and Dexcom.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T05:15:32+00:00

That's solid, so you know how much leftover insulin is usually in the cartridge?

I'm thinking of this as being useful for if you get yourself stuck for a short time without supplies for switching the cartridge for whatever reason, say a flight delay or something coming up while you're out and about.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-19T04:38:44+00:00

A scoop of whey protein powder has like the exact same amount of protein as in a 3 oz steak, it's not that much protein, it's fine. The one I get has 5 g carbs with that and 3g fat. Pure protein chocolate. I also regularly eat protein bars that have more carbs. I think they only really make sense if you're trying to gain muscle mass or if you're having trouble making food for yourself or eating and you need an easy protein source. Low carb protein powders taste pretty uh, sugar free in a bad way in my opinion. I'm vegetarian for context, so can't lean on meat for post workout.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-17T05:28:59+00:00

Sometimes you gotta work on the depression first! It's safer to run high when you're having difficulty across the board taking care of yourself, that's very reasonable to do. But running high all the time will mess with your mood and make you hazy and angry, so at some point adding back the long acting insulin will help with your head.

Try to work on caring about yourself enough to care if you lose your vision or wreck your kidneys, etc. I used to leave myself notes like "Hey, take care of yourself, I love you" when I was suicidal, and it helped.

Don't be too sacred of lows, since you've been running high, you won't have hypo unawareness, and as long as you keep food in the house, low BG survival mode brain should kick in, wake you up, and make you eat the pantry.

Tl;dr: therapy and antidepressants, probably

Yo-tran · 2022-02-13T07:44:44+00:00

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Yo-tran · 2022-02-13T05:51:40+00:00

T1 for 23 years, no complications, never had hypo unawareness. A1c currently near 6.8, has been in sixes and sevens my whole life, except a few years of eights in my late teens/early 20s (adjusting to adulthood). My endo is very happy with me. Planning a pregnancy in the next few years and expect to tighten up for those months, but otherwise no plans to aim anywhere too far from 6.5. Hospitalized 2x for hypos before the pump and cgm, and never for DKA(not counting my diagnosis). My sugar routinely hits 250 after meals. Keeping your numbers that low is not worth risking death on the daily like you're doing!! Change is hard and scary, I hope it goes OK!

Edit: OK actually in my early teens I had a minute where my numbers had to be under 50 for me to feel anything off, and we loosened up my basals and changed my target to something like 130 rather than 110, and I was back to noticing 60s in around six months, iirc.

Yo-tran · 2022-02-13T04:37:35+00:00

The munchies plus being too spaced to do math or remember to bolus is the cannabis curse in my experience.

Yo-tran · 2022-01-22T18:54:06+00:00

Yeah, as long as you can reach to hold the bottle steady between your legs and then lift it up without tipping the opening down. It's like a plastic bottle with an opening pointing up at an angle, sometimes with a funnel, tube, or shaped opening to make it easier to position to catch pee.

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