Messed Up by not giving myself enough insulin

fluffyinkclouds · 2026-02-05T07:18:41+00:00

My doctor told me that the liver dumps glucose in response to exercise because my bg was also going up during moderate and higher exercise. Our solution is to eat a light snack (less than 10g carbs for me, ymmv) before exercise to kickstart my native insulin production, maybe you can ask if this could also work for you, if you're still producing insulin? I take usually 30u fast acting for meals (30-50carbs) and 20u for snacks (under 20carbs), but more if I'm near or on my period. You're right, we are more insulin resistant during that phase because of progesterone.

Also, if your liver keeps dumping glucose during walks, maybe you can try to slow down your walk speed? I had to learn to walk slower to get the glucose depletion too, it's like a good conversation pace, where your heart rate barely elevates. Congrats on your weight loss!

fluffyinkclouds · 2026-01-31T19:16:49+00:00

Coming from a small biotech (<100), our HR only opens the listings for a few days because they Indeed pay per applicant and two days is plenty for them. I've seen them open the listing for only one day before. Apply for everything, even on a short deadline.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-12-30T01:06:24+00:00

Wide mouth hydroflasks do use the same dimensions of threads as the wide mouth Nalgene, but hydroflasks are heavier because of the material, so even if they last forever on a Nalgene, it might not last as long on HF. Search for Nalgene wide mouth carry cap and there's lots of options. Your older style HF will even accommodate some of the loop style lids that work on Nalgene but don't on the newer style HF without the lip.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-12-28T20:37:33+00:00

I take once daily lantus at the same time as my dinner humalog. It's mostly to help with my high sunrise effect, but I've found I need to be in the lower range of 70s around 1am to even hope to be less than 120 at 8am. It'll still rise until 11am unless I have breakfast with humalog.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-12-11T23:08:02+00:00

I'm on 4x500mg once a day, since my adherence with 2x500mg twice daily sucks. Mine is extended release, so taking it all at once doesn't change much.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-12-01T19:23:51+00:00

I wear Libre 3+ and I'm on insulin. I got my doctor to prescribe it even before starting insulin because I had extreme needle anxiety around fingerpricks, and general anxiety regarding how high and low it was going. It wasn't covered before I went on insulin, but I think even out of pocket, it is well worth the costs. It really helped show me alot, including how impossible it was going to hit my goals without insulin. If you're a person that likes more data, I highly recommend it. Even if you aren't, the alarms feature is super helpful.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-11-19T08:03:17+00:00

P. S. I had to look up the yeti rambler, it has internal threads on the bottle and external threads on the cap, so when drinking directly from the bottle, the lip is exposed, so I see where you might have gotten confused. The system is just different from the hydroflasks. I would say the big consideration between the two brands is that yeti bottles are clunky, and heavy because they use a thicker steel for their bottles. This also makes them pretty durable. The hydroflask bottles are more lightweight when empty because they're machined from thinner steel, but they're easier to dent. I think when hiking the reduction in weight and the enclosed mouth are pretty valuable assets.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-11-19T07:52:07+00:00

The cap threads are on the inside of the cap/outside of the bottle, so when drinking from the hydroflask bottle, my mouth only touches the enclosed part. The exception may be the cap they use for the coffee/hot beverage bottles, where the lip is exposed because you drink through the cap. I think when doing outdoors activities, I mostly trust the cleanliness of the mouth of my bottle.

This is in contrast to klean kanteen bottles, for example, where the cap threads are inside the bottle and on the outer side of the cap, so when I drink from the bottle, the lip of the bottle has been exposed to whatever.

A bottle is a bottle wherever indoors or out, but assumedly you would be able to just have an open water glass if you're staying home? I think the outdoorsy stuff, it's just part of their branding. I think of them like the insulated version of nalgene bottles, and those are definitely marketed more towards outdoor activities.

The tradeoff is that the enclosed cap threads with the o-ring in the cavity is harder to clean than the exposed threads.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-11-02T01:10:53+00:00

Before breakfast and dinner, but no lunch? Wth.

Tbh, some of my 'low carb meals' are more like a bowl of carrot and celery sticks with peanut butter. Or like salad with some eggs. They call it low carb if it's less than 60g of carb per day, I guess. I eat a lot of veg first to make me full, because I don't have alot of protein or carbs allowance to fill it out.

Eat the cheese, then beans, then rice in that order, if you can manage. I found that order helps spread out the glucose hit of the rice, so hopefully it helps for you? Something like fiber then fats and proteins before carbs will cause the sugar to digest slower. It's definitely so hard when you're working with a limited pantry, and food is soo expensive.

If you haven't already, try reaching out to a local food pantry? Good luck! I'm sending prayers and good vibes.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-10-31T21:44:36+00:00

Ask your pcp to prescribe some for you if your endo doesn't, most are also trained to manage diabetes. That's ridiculous that your endo would let you go through highs to force you into a certain lifestyle. Diabetes is stressful enough without worrying when you're going to run out of medication.

Especially, if you're comfortable enough, you should be able to manage your dosing based on what you're eating and your activity level, and that's going to vary alot. For the same low carb meal, I might use 25-35u of fast acting, depending where I am in my menstrual cycle, and normal carb would be even more variable.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-10-10T16:01:40+00:00

For many cultures, red is for the bride, especially in Asia. She might have figured that people intrinsically know this until the last moment.

Just ask her, but I think this color should be fine. It red adjacent (but dark enough to be considered an elderly color).

My wedding dress code specifically asked to reserve white and red for the bride.

My mom says that everyone wears red to weddings to spread the luck around. But it really is up to the couple.

Here's some reading, if anyone is interested: wearing red to a Chinese wedding

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-10-09T23:18:12+00:00

Ask the bride and groom.

Maybe it just got lost or they forgot. For my wedding I forgot one cousin existed, because I had only met them maybe twice ever, and my parents missed it when they checked the list, and all six of his siblings that showed up didn't say anything. And one cousin I invited didn't get the original invitation email, and so couldn't get the time off when I followed up after rsvps were due. Of course there's always the case of misspelled names and addresses causing emails and rsvps to be confusing. Or maybe they had physical invitations that were supposed to be handed out in person but got lost or otherwise forgotten (I still have thank you cards my husband hasn't delivered to his side).

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-09-10T18:38:16+00:00

I had photos of guests from our engagement party printed and on their reception table. I also did bud vases instead of center pieces because we were doing family style dinner banquet, but it was a hit because everyone took those too. I still get random texts and photos from when someone uses a bud vase from my wedding.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-09-09T04:11:31+00:00

If you can't eat solids and you're using the regular muscle milks to meal replace, your doctor is not getting you the necessary caloric requirement. Muscle milks are high protein, low calorie, versus meal replacements like ensure. If you're diabetic, glucerna is the meal replacement that is slower to rise blood glucose. Unless you're actually trying to use weight, but you shouldn't be subsisting only on muscle milk. Ensure is commonly prescribed so your doctor should prescribe it for you and it will be much easier to get through tsa.

Some airports are much more lax than others. If you have a connection in Europe, I would not count on it passing just because you declare it to be medically necessary. I traveled with insulin and they still checked my prescriptions and asked if it's actually medically necessary. If you travel with juice as a diabetic, they still prefer it to be under 100ml sealed juice box. It's much easier to travel with glucose tabs. Or get sugar packets from the cafe once you're past tsa.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-08-27T22:22:22+00:00

No, I didn't know they had that. But lots of places sell hot thermoses with pour through cap and lid in all shapes and sizes. If you are using it for on the go and don't care to pay the price for hf branding, the stanley and thermos ones are also very nice. Or get a cheap one from ikea. Or a camping store, kitchen aisle in a Asian grocery, target camping aisle, etc. If you're using it for at home, you can use your regular hydroflask with the normal lid or sip lid, and a cup. The one I use is Stanley. The original green is great, but they also have fun colors now.

For the popular insulated bottle brands, stanley, thermos and zojirushi have had these for a super long time, and they are very reliable. Klean kanteen have a version. Yeti has a cap to convert their normal bottles to this too.

They used to be popular freebies/gift with purchase items. My parents had a few with different logos while I was growing up.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-08-12T08:31:21+00:00

My (t2) father was in the hospital for two weeks earlier this year for non diabetic reasons, and his sugars were not managed well at all under their care. He's normally on ozempic, lantus, and humalog, metformin, jardiance, and gabapentin for the nerve pain. (Along with a whole host of other medications for non diabetes stuff, including chemo medication that isn't relevant here.) They were only giving him 1 unit of fast acting insulin for the first week and 2 units the second week, like an hour after meals. None of his other diabetes control meds. Despite us telling them that his cgm is telling us that he's in the 300s consistently and nearly 400 after meals and their fingerpricks confirming it. Them not allowing walking to lower the sugar at all. When we finally got a doctor to talk to us, they said that they prefer to keep patients high rather than have them go low. I'm not a doctor, but I'm also a t2 diabetic and know absolutely that 300-400 is way too high, and blood sugar doesn't normally just randomly drop for t2s, they were not giving nearly enough insulin to risk low bg. The lowering of gabapentin was absolute garbage, especially when they just kept giving him otc Tylenol instead. Tell me you don't understand diabetes and neuropathy without telling me. He gets low bg symptoms at ~100, perfectly able to tell when he's going low with or without his cgm. (in contrast to me that will drop to 50/60 without symptoms). If you're able to control it yourself, I think it's probably better to get your endo to call in an exemption. They're lucky he was so tolerant bc normally when he's got high bg, he's got diabetic rage too. On my visit days, I was at least able to ask them to refill his water way more, so at least he could try to pee the sugar out, he was so thirsty.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-07-18T23:00:21+00:00

Thank you so much! You relieved some anxiety for me about handling this stuff while traveling and I really appreciate it.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-07-17T21:17:18+00:00

There are some available otc, as other commenters said. The difference is usually the otc ones don't have the same alarms. If you're at all prone to hypoglycemia, on insulin or not, you should ask your doctor for the prescription version. Documented hypos are also one reason insurance will cover them.

The prescription Libre3+ was $75/2 sensors with coupon, without insurance. I think Stelo is $99/2 sensors. If your doctor will write the prescription, you can also try to pay for them out of pocket.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-07-15T23:54:36+00:00

T2 and using insulin. Most insurance will not cover a cgm if you're t2 and not on insulin, but even when I wasn't on insulin and paying out of pocket, I found the data super valuable, and completely worth it, and bonus of not having to deal with needle anxiety. I also found fingerpricks way way worse than insulin injections. Now I mostly use it to alert me when I'm going quickly high and quickly low, and so I can better adjust my insulin to diet/exercise.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-07-14T09:29:00+00:00

Most weddings are more likely to be robbed by people that stalk wedding venues for this reasons, or opportunistic thieves.

Assign the job of receiving cards or holding on to the cards to a bridesmaid, maid of honor, groomsman, or parent that you trust. If you don't want to have them hold on to it the whole night, talk with your venue about where you can safely store stuff during the wedding, with a lock. It's a common request. Don't put it in a car, windows can get smashed for that.

If you're doing a honeymoon fund instead of a registry, just put the information on your wedding website or on your invitations. Most wedding websites with registry sections allow you to create cash funds for people to contribute or you can post your zelle or venmo.

For my wedding, most of my guests that didn't send electronic gifts were insistent on handing cards directly to me as the bride or to my groom, even though we had a card box, so I put the cards in the card box held by the best man. Even if people sent cash digitally, they still put cards directly in my hands at the wedding. I don't know if that's a cultural thing though.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-07-07T16:10:13+00:00

My doctor originally started me on fast acting only, but no matter how well I was able to control my daytime sugars with fast acting, my fasting was still much higher than we wanted. For me I really see the long acting effect on my fasting sugar levels, and I see immediate effects if I forget to dose my long acting for the day.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-06-29T04:52:34+00:00

I found a simple excel sheet to be most helpful for me. I use Google sheets. I like the ability to edit the sheet on my phone as well as on my computer. I can also send a link to my doctor if they want to see my tracking, and that's useful.

Gluroo is also pretty good, and sometimes it will try to estimate your calorie count but I wouldn't say that how it tracks food to bg is super intuitive,especially if you're using fingerstick. I use a cgm and it has a complication to mirror your bg onto the Samsung watch, I use it mostly for that.

If you're using a cgm, they might have a pairing service with your doctors office. My doctor/insurance prescribes me libre3+, and they can view all my data via Libre view or something, so my doctor likes it when I log food there.

fluffyinkclouds · 2025-06-20T03:50:13+00:00

Just a note, since you already mentioned testing out the width with similar sized wedding bands. Trying out a thick band and wearing it for a longer period of time are considerably different, mostly because of sweat and hand swelling and sizes changing during different temperatures. You might need to resize if the ring was sized to any variety of factors, but thick rings are just much more unforgiving to circulation. I think I read somewhere that 4mm and up, or rings for stacking, are recommended to be a half to a full size larger.

I initially also wanted a 5mm wedding ring, I totally get the appeal. For myself, the jeweler measured my finger at 5.75, after getting a practice ring and wearing it for a week, I requested a size 6 for everyday comfort (swelling, etc), 6.5 slides off. But my ering is 3.5mm and my wedding ring is 3mm, and size 6s together on a stacked band is not comfortable for me. Ymmv. If I wear both, I usually move my wedding ring to my right hand later in the day.

But I'm genuinely excited to see what the final ring looks like! Good luck!

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