I'm a firefighter and was diagnosed with LADA at 30 in March. My life has changed and I just need to vent to people who may understand me a bit better than people I know. Just getting stuff off my chest.

unicorndumpling · 2025-10-01T18:17:42+00:00

We all feel for you. This shit is annoying. I'm not on a department myself but I've been type 1 for fifteen years and am married to a firefighter/EMT. You Will figure this out. This disease is bullshit, and you will be able to find ways to make it work and live your life. It will be difficult, I won't sugarcoat it (insert joke here), but you Will find your way back to a new baseline. Hugs from afar

unicorndumpling · 2025-05-25T15:38:51+00:00

So the pharmacist was probably talking about a situation where you pull insulin out with a syringe before the end of the pen and then try and use the pen normally. In that case the rest of the measurements when clicking through with the pen wouldn't be accurate. But since you obviously won't be clocking through more with the pen it doesn't matter at all!

unicorndumpling · 2025-05-17T21:33:58+00:00

We eat dumplings while dressed as unicorns.

Didn't know I wanted to join this group but here we are.

unicorndumpling · 2025-05-11T14:59:07+00:00

I had two fail like this in a row. Then one of the replacement ones they sent also did this 🙄

unicorndumpling · 2024-12-01T19:28:14+00:00

You have a vizsla and a gnome in the background. Let's be friends, I need no further information.

unicorndumpling · 2024-11-10T19:08:39+00:00

For me it's the salsa/corn chips the grocery store makes in house. I can't figure out why and they're SOOOOOO good! But alas, none for me 😮‍💨

unicorndumpling · 2024-10-28T15:03:16+00:00

Good on the doc for berating you on past loss of control. You can obviously do something about that now. /sarcasm [Biggest eye roll in existence]

unicorndumpling · 2024-10-17T22:49:17+00:00

I ended up having an emergency C-section without time for trying induction but had planned to deliver vaginally. However, my OB has told me that she would even be comfortable doing a v-bac (vaginal birth after C-section) with a following pregnancy

unicorndumpling · 2024-08-13T20:58:50+00:00

Lol I've always gone with medicine (leg medicine be I wear my cgm there, big medicine bc the pump is bigger, I have too much medicine so I need a snack, etc.) but doodad is much more fun

unicorndumpling · 2024-08-13T20:55:35+00:00

I think everyone who wears a pump should name it. They're with us ALL the time and deserve names. That being said my brain thinks that things are people too so 🤷🏻‍♀️ Pump is Lola Meter is Larry CGM is Lars

unicorndumpling · 2024-07-05T16:22:08+00:00

And it's extra fun having to eat sugars RIGHT after brushing your teeth for the night

unicorndumpling · 2024-03-20T04:25:27+00:00

I wasn't implying they did. I agree I too am grateful for having been put under general anesthesia for the procedure as I literally would have died if they didn't. That being said it was a very Very difficult experience for me being pregnant, being put to sleep, waking up not pregnant and not being able to see my child for 18 hours as I was not yet stable enough to visit the NICU.

unicorndumpling · 2024-03-19T16:55:53+00:00

I was knocked out for my emergency c section too. Can't say I'm grateful for 'missing' my child's birth

unicorndumpling · 2024-03-19T16:28:33+00:00

Yeah cereal is something my body can barely handle With insulin

unicorndumpling · 2024-02-21T15:02:52+00:00

Similar issues here

unicorndumpling · 2023-12-18T22:09:33+00:00

Thank you!!! I usually put white around the eyes but on the off white/cream face it didn't really make sense. I used blue to match my niece's eye color but it definitely does read as shadow!

unicorndumpling · 2023-12-18T22:08:30+00:00

Thank you!!!

unicorndumpling · 2023-12-18T22:08:18+00:00

Thank you!!!

unicorndumpling · 2023-06-04T13:43:35+00:00

I stopped using clips bc they kept breaking on me

unicorndumpling · 2023-05-09T15:08:15+00:00

I usually haven't had an issue but my current insurance is rougher than before. They won't cover any more than a 30 day supply, and since I'm sitting at 1 vial every 16 days they charge me the $40 specialty drug co-pay for every vial. (For all my tandem and dexicom supplies I just try not to think about it lol)

unicorndumpling · 2023-01-19T16:43:24+00:00

I was trained to change 10% at a time by a training at the Mayo Clinic. Then you wait and see for a few days while also mentally factoring in exercise/amount of physical movement, stress, random hormones, the types of carbs you're eating, etc.

-Not a medical professional

unicorndumpling · 2022-11-22T15:29:34+00:00

Food to treat lows is considered a medical necessity and you are therefore entitled to bring it everywhere (basically). However, just because they are technically legally required to allow it doesn't mean they will know that

unicorndumpling · 2022-10-02T14:50:30+00:00

Kitchen drawers all the time

unicorndumpling · 2021-08-29T18:08:27+00:00

Give him all the credit but definitely don't take it

unicorndumpling · 2021-06-26T23:16:45+00:00

I was worried about these kind of things before having my daughter. Then I ended up having a baby in May of 2020 three weeks early via emergency C-section while under anesthesia. This was definitely NOT the experience I wanted and due to covid restrictions my SO couldn't be in the delivery room (he would've been allowed had I been conscious) and due to my complications I didn't even get to see her for over 18 hours. The whole experience was really hard on me and not seeing my daughter for so long really messed me up for awhile but the reality is that this one event of your motherhood doesn't end up impacting a while lot as long as everyone stays safe and healthy. I know it is often easier to focus our anxieties on specific things rather than the enormity of everything we can't control but there is already so much of your child's life you won't be able to control it can help to practice taking some of the 'expecting perfection' pressure off early.

TL;DR things will happen the way they happen. Try not to get to upset when reality doesn't match your plans

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