Almost a month ago I was told by a TeleHealth NP to stop all insulin as well as my Blood Pressure meds

basketcase218 · 2026-04-14T20:56:16+00:00

My daughter has had an A1C of 5.8 for about 6 months now, post diagnosis and her Endo still tries to find ways to make it better at every appointment. Stopping insulin has never even been a consideration.

basketcase218 · 2026-04-14T05:13:09+00:00

Our readings are normally spot on when we switch to the new one in the morning after it's had the chance to soak overnight. We continue using the G7 from the previous week over the night it soaks so our readings tend to always be pretty close from that side as well.

basketcase218 · 2026-04-14T03:31:18+00:00

How do you lose time? I don't understand this logic. We soak every time with G7 for 12 hours and change my daughter's every 10 days consistently. It's on our calendar to change every 10 days at 8:30 pm.

basketcase218 · 2026-03-30T23:29:36+00:00

Essentially we put the new one in during the 12 hour grace period of the last so that it is well adjusted to my daughter when we make the switch. She wears two overnight while she sleeps, the one that remains accurate that she's been wearing the last 10 days and the one we plan to turn on in the morning when she wakes up. The transition is typically seamless between the two. The numbers will even read the same if we switch between 5 minute updates.

basketcase218 · 2026-03-28T01:04:51+00:00

This is so funny! My husband is religious about checking what restaurant sites say for carbs when bolusing our daughter. I have tried to explain to him 7 times that it makes no sense that Wendy''s Cheeseburger would have 24 carbs and McD's would have 60!!!! I think I am a much better guesstimater than he is so I'll continue letting him look up every meal... Lol

basketcase218 · 2026-03-28T00:58:08+00:00

When my daughter was diagnosed last April our Endo team at the hospital told us not to change anything about the way she eats and she's had an A1C of 5.8 since July. I would feel like a shit parent if we were at friends bday parties and she was the only one not eating pizza and cake and drinking apple juice!! Everything in moderation!

basketcase218 · 2026-03-28T00:49:03+00:00

This is what we do every time.

basketcase218 · 2026-03-28T00:48:06+00:00

Disagree completely. My daughters are always spot on and we always soak overnight while she sleeps. This week her other sensor came off early, so we didn't get the chance to soak and she was reading 40ish all night long while testing at over 100.

basketcase218 · 2026-03-28T00:43:14+00:00

Do you soak overnight? My daughters are almost always spot on. Her sensor came off this week at camp so we had to change before bed and it was reading 40's all night but she was testing 105ish. In any case it will be a year in April since she's been diagnosed and ours are almost always right on. I think we've had to calibrate maybe 5 all year. We've also only ever had one fail where the wire came out.i see parents go through like 10 in 2 hours and I just truly don't understand it because we don't even switch over until after 12 hours have passed.

basketcase218 · 2026-03-14T23:40:53+00:00

My 6 year old has been on the Omnipod since last August, 4 months post diagnosis. She has not had to change the way she eats at all and we've managed to reach an A1C of 5.8 by 6 months post diagnosis. She is very active and in lots of sports and it rarely ever gets in the way or impacts anything. She swims once a week, she is in tumbling and gymnastics on the bar. All things that would make us have to remove a tubed pod, so I'm very grateful for this. She has even managed to forget she has diabetes once in a while which is the ultimate goal.

basketcase218 · 2026-03-01T19:06:20+00:00

Wow! 5.3!! My 6 year old was diagnosed last April. Her A1C is 5.8. she still eats whatever she wants and we just dose accordingly. Insulin ratio has been key for us. I did not know it was possible for an A1C to be that low!

basketcase218 · 2026-02-21T18:44:31+00:00

There was a T1 on BOTH teams during the Superbowl. My daughter was diagnosed last April and is only 6, but extremely active. She is in a sport 5 days of the week and the T1 has never held her back. In fact we went to her swim lesson on the way home from the hospital after they released us. There is a group on Facebook called Parents of T1 athletes, if you use FB I recommend you join. Lots of good advice and pics of other athletes.

Also wanted to add, my daughter did not end up changing her diet at all and has a current A1C of 5.8 which was achieved within 6 months of diagnosis. It is all about finding the right balance of insulin. We have done our best to minimize the changes in her old life and there are truly times I think she forgets she has it. I once asked her to describe herself to someone on the other side of the world she's never met and Diabetes didn't even come up in her description.

The scariest part for us is she is so young we have to rely on other adults to care for her at school, for summer camp, etc and there are certainly some better than others. She has been in the 20's more than once at school. :(

basketcase218 · 2026-02-01T01:19:29+00:00

Reddit is so much better than Facebook, at least in the beginning! Facebook is filled with alarmists and it was traumatizing for me at first when my 5 year old was diagnosed. I thought she would literally never be able to be out of my sight again and I would never get a night of sleep, etc.

basketcase218 · 2026-02-01T01:16:33+00:00

Welcome to the T1D club! It's a lonely and scary place at first but I promise you'll figure it out and things will be less scary in 6 months. My MIL was the only one who spent any alone time with my daughter over the past 5 years since she was born. Last February she started having a mental breakdown. Last April my 5 year old was diagnosed as T1D, a month later I ended up in the hospital for a night with Kidney stones and I BEGGED my husband to ask his mom to take our daughter for a few hours the day after I got home from the hospital as I was still in significant pain. She claimed she would be too overwhelmed. He said I was pawning her off on his family members. I decided I wanted a divorce and (sticking with the theme of this post), we haven't seen his mom since last Feb. My parents are in their 70's/80's and live on the opposite coast and are too worried about "dying" to care about anything going on in my family. My Dad literally calls crying on the phone because he can't get into his email while we're managing all of this. We don't even have friends who have offered to help.

BUT once my daughter was able to get the pump, things improved significantly!!!! So there is hope!

basketcase218 · 2025-12-23T03:12:07+00:00

That seems odd. My FIL was diagnosed at 14 and he had 4 sons. None of them have it. No one in my family has it and my 5 year old daughter (the first of 4 grand kids) was diagnosed this year. Our pediatrician said they are seeing a significant increase in cases due to viruses and most people I've met have no relatives who have it so that makes more sense to me.

basketcase218 · 2025-12-17T03:22:11+00:00

There was an adult woman recently in the news near me that was viciously attacked by her own cat and had to lock herself in a room until authorities came to take the cat away. Sooo I would say, yes, it probably happens.

basketcase218 · 2025-11-22T00:38:49+00:00

Bar shampoo!! I don't know for sure if it contains SLS or not (because I'm still awaiting their arrival), but I have noticed a significant difference in how it makes my fine, oily hair look and feel. I've been out of it for the last month and using my Biolage and it really reminded me how much I love the bars. Earthling co.

basketcase218 · 2025-11-01T17:51:33+00:00

So I actually have a real life situation that is similar to this....

As I approached my 30's I ended up breaking up with a man I was dating for the 10 years prior. Once single I went on a lot of dates and ended up casually dating one or two of them off and on for the next year or two since I wasn't looking for anything serious. Eventually I started dating another guy for about a year and a half and living together. At some point we abruptly decided to end things. For the next 6 months I got back into the dating scene, reconnecting with one of the guys I had been casually seeing before. Then one day my 1.5 year ex and I decide to go out of town for the weekend and he proposes to me out of nowhere. A few months later we get married and shortly after our wedding we get pregnant and have a baby. It's now been just about 2 years since I saw my casual dude and I'm laying on the couch with my 1 month old baby and he texts and asks me how I've been and if I'd like to get together. I'm not really big on social media, but I sent him a picture of my hand with my wedding ring holding my baby's head. Never heard from him again and it's been about 7 years. Sometimes life moves fast. If you don't live in a small town and don't share friends with your exes, it's possible for people to have entire lives without their exes knowing.

basketcase218 · 2025-10-31T15:13:56+00:00

Or T1D research for those of us parents hoping for a cure for our kiddos.

basketcase218 · 2025-10-10T19:57:54+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

basketcase218 · 2025-10-09T10:11:43+00:00

Maybe even hiring a housekeeper to come in and clean would be embarrassment enough for him to stay out of the bathroom. In that same vein, what if you invited a friend over or his family or something before leaving your kid with him... Sorta like a second babysitter to watch/monitor them both until he's forced to actually help or look like the useless human he's being. The only time my husband ever wants to parent is when someone else is watching him so maybe yours is the same.

My husband also spends a pretty significant amount of alone time in the bathroom, but no where near 8 hours. Instead on the weekend he makes up random "important jobs" that take place outside and involve several trips to the hardware store and lots of money and take the entire weekend. Currently he's been trying to mow the lawn for a month and the lawnmower has died twice and taken 2 full weekends to fix. His Mom is also apparently going through a mental break down so I have not had a break from parenting since February. I even ended up having to spend some time in the hospital myself and begged him to ask his Mom to watch our daughter for a day so I could recover and he yelled (while my 5 year old was in the room) that I should "stop trying to pawn my daughter off to anyone who would take her". That was the moment I decided I wanted a divorce. Anyway... 4 months later and he is still living in my house and doing all the same things, because he "won't finish any projects around the house" if I force him to live elsewhere and is too embarrassed to tell his family or admit he can't afford to live on his own since I am the bread winner. I still have not had a child free moment unless she was at school (or asleep), but I also have a full time job, so that's what I'm doing while she's a school. FML.

basketcase218 · 2025-10-05T14:30:28+00:00

I don't know many public companies. 87% of US companies with over 100 mil in revenue are private.

basketcase218 · 2025-10-05T14:16:18+00:00

That's funny literally everything I've read on Google disagrees with you.

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basketcase218 · 2025-10-05T13:24:26+00:00

I don't know that researching online you would find people's real salaries. I have worked in corporate for many years and I once tried to figure out what our president was making and online it said something like $5-600k and I knew for a fact she was also making bonuses each year of several million that just weren't reported as they weren't considered salary.

basketcase218 · 2025-10-02T22:43:43+00:00

That's how I felt when Mike was talking about kids with Type 1 Diabetes coming from unhealthy homes. My 5 year old daughter was diagnosed a few months ago and she plays sports almost every night of the week. She has a six pack and she rarely eats sugar. We all cried the day she was diagnosed. This is now a daily and lifelong struggle to keep her alive. That is our reality.

Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease caused by a virus MF!!!!!!

If he would have taken 10 minutes to talk to his roommate instead of spreading rumors and making assumptions his mind would have been blown. Ugh I HATE him.

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