I'll be going overseas for several months. I have 26 unopened pens that I keep refrigerated. I've been looking at coolers that can keep them cool during the trip (about 20 hours of travel). I even bought a couple of the large coolers from 4AllFamilly, but its not nearly enough. Do you have an recommendations on a travel cooler than can take that many pens?

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I go to school and we have to put out phones in a box. I’m allowed an Apple Watch and am in the process of diagnosis. I will most likely get a libre 3. Is there any way to view these numbers on an Apple Watch. I am willing to download an external app.

I just wanted to post about how much this subreddit has helped me since my diagnosis. I have my A1c back down to a 6.7, and have lost weight that has been much needed… I have my doctors appointment tomorrow to see what the next steps are going to be. Fingers crossed!!

Hey, I commented on an old post but I’ve been on metformin for about a month and over two weeks ago my taste has been altered really badly. Some things I can taste and others I can’t, been going on longer than 2 weeks. Also I’ve been really tired, but when I brought it up to my primary, she said there’s no way metformin can cause all that and she blamed my fatigue on being a parent. My A1C was 5.9 and she put me on 1000 mg, wanted to bump it to 2000 but I told her 1000 was enough. Has anyone else experienced similar?

I have only been using a glucometer for couple of months. Completely confused for the reading I got after supper tonight. I tested about an hour and 40 minutes after and it said 192. I then retested 20 minutes later and it said 128. What the heck. I washed my hands both times. I then retook 1 minute after 128 reading and got 118. Is my meter broken? Thanks

Just did my first 0.25mg injection today and curious how long it takes for people to notice the result. I read in another reddit subforum some feel the result right away. I haven't. No change in food cravings yet.

Im a type 1 diabetic. My blood sugar goes up A LOT in the shower. Like, I'll be cruising at a solid 183 and it'll shoot up to 257 within 10-15 minutes. I use a Dexcom CG6, but it reads right. Anyone have any answers? I can't find any clear ones online and need advice from other diabetics.

Hello! My boyfriend is diabetic. He's very open about sharing information and such with me when I ask. However I have more questions! He's Type 1. Do most people with Type 1 experience similar symptoms and concerns, or is it pretty different for each individual? He has a continuous sensor little monitor in his arm that tells him his sugar levels and they are allllll over the place. He's been diabetic for a long time and requires insulin several times a day. Overall he does a good job managing it while still having somewhat "normal" eating habits but his sugar levels are so up and down, it can swing from one extreme to the other in a short time. When we are living together, what can I do to help? I love to cook and I need to get healthier, I'd really love to help him keep his sugars as level as possible. Does anyone have a diet plan or tips or advice or anything that's helpful for me to learn more to support him the best I can? Thank you!

Hi everyone. I started feeling foggy and spinny headed a bit ago. Ignored it initially but I started to get shaky too. Tested and BG was 69. Couldn’t find my emergency candy initially so tried a spoonful of Nutella (realizing later that the fat might slow things down), tested again 15 minutes later and was 67. Found my emergency candy and ate a few pieces. Now BG is 106. Is this a reasonable bounce back , not too high for this kind of situation?

I’m taking Glipizide in the morning and Metformin ER in the evening (as of this past Friday). I was just on 2 doses of Glipizide but my doctor wants to gradually take me off of Glipizide…but honestly I would’ve thought this kind of thing would’ve happened on the two doses of Glipizide, not now. The only thing I can think of is that I don’t eat lunch, instead I have 2 small protein-oriented snacks and didn’t have the second one today because I’m sitting on my butt most of the day.

I honestly didn’t think going too low was going to be one of my problems, as a T2, and apparently didn’t prepare enough (or hide candy well enough from my dad!). I’d like to hear from other T2s about their experiences, if you’re all willing to share.

Thanks for listening and for your thoughts.

Long story short - newly diabetic and can’t eat sugary foods anymore, etc. I’m doing my best to not eat pastries, pastas etc but it’s extremely hard. I did well for several days and the craving just hit me and I caved - ended up having a snack that I regret and a carb heavy meal.

It’s very difficult to cut my cravings. What have you done to cut your cravings? What has/hasn’t worked? What suggestions can you give a struggling woman who loves her sweets and carbs? Is there something I can take or drink or anything to not feel this way? I feel like giving up 😢

Hey everyone,

I just got a blood test back on Friday with a fasting blood glucose of 285, confirmed the next day with 240 and A1C of 7.7 via lab draw.

I'm 34M, 6'0" 205 lbs, mostly muscular but have inched into the 20% body fat range over the past year or so with more abdominal fat, a healthier weight for me is 190 or below, which I'll obviously work towards getting back to ASAP

This seems to have come on fast and I have a few theories about why. All of my past fasting blood glucose readings, as recent as about 7-8 months were all in the 80s or 90s. Highest was 99 so not even technically pre-diabetic. Every time I had had A1C checked before it was always exactly 5.2

The only thing I did notice off in the prior to this blood draw (Aug '23, glucose 95) was higher LDL cholesterol (130 out of 100) and high ALT on the last test (78) but I attributed those to just returning home from a wine and pasta fueled long Italy trip which prob wasn't great on the liver, as all those had been ok before. Still waiting on processing of these for this most recent draw, but other flags so far are out of range estrogen (49 out of 39) that hasn't been an issue in the past, and testosterone back on the lower range that hadn't been an issue for me in a long time as well, although I read this is correlated with t2 diabetes.

Potential contributing factors: There is a history of type 2 on one side of my family (I think most recently great grandparents, my grandma was hypoglycemic). Also I began drinking very large frozen fruit smoothies (50oz total volume with 50g protein powder included) in the evenings basically right after my last test which I suspect was a terrible idea. I also suffered a few injuries that prevented me from my normal 2-3x a week weight lifting routine, and I didn't substitute enough in its place, resulting in a more sedentary half year for me as I WFH. I began to skip daily walks etc and order food as I was busier than normal.

Symptoms: I've always drank a ton of water due to thirst and peed frequently my entire adult life, so I haven't really noticed much of an increase there. I've also always dealt with some lethargy after meals and at other times, perhaps a bit more recently but nothing that stood out. A bit of fatigue, some increased pace of minor hair loss. Some increased shortness of breath after exercise but I attributed that to the 10-15lb weight gain. Otherwise nothing drastic. I would have never suspected without the shock bloodwork that I was diabetic.

I got a contour next one the day of my first results and began testing immediately to understand patterns. Only been a few days, but I've had fasted readings as low as 125 and as high as 250, a low reading of 80 when I went long with eating (was almost feeling a bit light headed), and spikes approaching 300 after eating high carb meals.

So obviously I'll be cutting out the sugar bomb smoothies I was having every day. I'll learn what foods spike me and what don't. Adding psyllium husk, all the obvious diet stuff and will make sure I'm getting exercise in every day, going to drastically raise activity level to get back to 190lbs. Also going to see my doctor this week for official diagnosis, and will ask her all these questions, but some questions in the meantime:

1. Is it normal for this to come on this fast for some people, no pre diabetic warning, just a switch that flips over a few months?

2. Are my chances of remission better for having caught it earlier and the fact that I have an easy path to increase activity and cut out the probably close to 80g or more fruit sugar I was having most days? Since I've been like this for under a year, is the damage to my beta cells possibly more salvageable?

3. If I approach this from a diet and exercise perspective, is there a consensus on when to add metformin? Will adding it make my body more reliant on it and less likely to be able to regulate BG without it? Or can it be a nice jump start to get me into good ranges and help the diet/exercise such that I can come off of it later?

Obviously this has been a bummer emotionally especially with reading about life expectancy implications and the fact I'll have to severely limit some of my favorite foods, but trying to approach things as systematically as possible. Thanks in advance for any answers and guidance.

Edit: Sorry for the block of text, can't get the paragraphs to space out more for some reason

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I'm prediabetic, fasting blood glucose levels in the low 120s mg/dl back in the beginning at my peak weight of 315 lbs. I've since lost close to 80 lbs in just over a year, and I've been fighting to bring my blood glucose down as much as I can. I did the whole keto thing for awhile, and it was "working" but I thought initially that doing that for a period of time would help retrain my body's insulin sensitivity. Nope, wrong.

I've been eating low fat moderate carb moderate protein meals lately, always around 800-900 calories, carbs always under 100g, and then I walk a mile or two after eating. This is what I'm dealing with: https://i.imgur.com/MSjXB5a.jpg

My sugars will come down with the walk, but as soon as I stop they shoot right back up to levels I am NOT happy with, even multiple hours after eating and they will linger there all day.

It's become so mentally tiring, I'm just over it all. If I don't walk after eating, it takes HOURS to bring my blood sugar back down to where it started, which was itself already elevated around the 105 mg/dl mark when I'm close to 24 hours fasted. Better than the 120s, but still for me depressingly high.

I just want to be normal. I just want to have control over it. I see videos from channels that do blood glucose testing with various foods, and there are people who can eat a whole cup of white rice and never go over 107 mg/dl, and are back down in the 90s an hour later!!! I eat like that, and I shoot up to 180 mg/dl and stay above 140 for hours. It's infuriating. I know people out here have it much worse than me, while many other people have it much better. Sorry for the rant but it's just mentally exhausting and I just can't wait to feel like I'm actually in control of my health for a change.

I've talked to my endo about this, and she doesn't seem to be concerned, so this is good. I am more curious than anything. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this, as well.

I am wearing the G7 (though the same happened with the G6) and let's say I wake up at 5 AM at 135. I never immediately eat. Morning will be shower, dress, etc. Ya know, morning things. By the time I get ready for breakfast around 6:00-6:30 AM, my BG is up in the 150s! Why on Earth would it go up instead of maintaining or going down? 🤷‍♀️ Perplexed.

Like I said, my endo knows and is not concerned, so I'm not looking for medical advice. I just want to see if this happens to anyone else.

Yall a bit of tmi. But I have a yeast infection and obviously I diabetic. The nurse practiober was telling me how I'm prone to it bevause of mt diabetes especially if it's out of control. The thing is nothing in my routine has really changed.

However I just checked my blood sugar about 10 minutes ago and it was 130. This was 5 hours after eating. I didn't realize how much out of control it was. I'll be honest because we of my job I haven't been excersing and eating like I usually do. And I also do edibles once a week. I'm definitely going to chill on the edibles but omg they're the only thing keeping me sane. And no I'm not addicted. But damn I should've realized something was wrong during my last period. I was spotting which never happens to me. And was also late. I'm going to try and exercise on my off days.

Also my job has been posting me at posts where it's hard for me to use the bathroom easily so I've been drinking less water as well.

But yeah 130 is not normal for me at all after 5 hours. I'm going to let my job know I can't keep doing the same posts everyday (I work in security).

Edit: tops to help me get back on track greatly appreciated.

To take the win and control(as much as anyone can control it...) t1 between 100-150 averaging around 135/140 or push the limit with the basal and have semi control between 80-130 averaging around 117/120 with 2-3 lows dipping into the 60's.. so in summary is the any real benefit to trying for 117 over 135 (averages) always flirting with the lows? I know high gets you in the long term but the low can be real bad now. I think I should just take the win at 135/140 ..considering I was in the 600's less than 6 months ago. Curious what folks here think?

I started the tandem pump less than two months ago, the actual pump itself works fine but the insertion site part is where I have problems. I’m using the auto soft insertion and follow the tutorial of how to do it exactly, yet I keep having leaks and kinks, I wound up in the ICU once already because of it. I’ve stayed diligent in checking for leaks instead of being more hands off, I honestly don’t know what to do I’ve had 3 insertions in a row immediately kink, had a full blown cry in the middle of the night because of sick I feel and having to try to install a new one at 3am just for it to kink again. I’m going to try contacting tandem and the instructor I worked with but it just feels ridiculous that I’ve had so many diabetic products fail or mess up. I’m at work with another failed insertion and a high bs, and I can’t afford to miss work again :/

I've been a food addict most my life, it's my comfort. I'm 28 and now have Type 2, and have absolutely no clue how to get some control over my impulse spending while grocery shopping, or even just getting snacks and stuff at the gas station. I'm getting very worried about my health, I feel sick every day and I don't know what it's like to not feel sick anymore. My blood sugar is constantly in the 200's and I'm getting scared, but even then I can't control myself. I seriously need help, I don't want to keep doing this.

Hi! I have confusion about statin recommendations for diabetic patients. I am trying to look at the guidelines from the ADA (https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/47/Supplement\_1/S179/153957/10-Cardiovascular-Disease-and-Risk-Management) about this, and it mentions that people aged 40-75 years old should be started on at least moderate-intensity statin therapy, and with a goal LDL <70. However, sssuming someone is newly diagnosed with diabetes in this age range without other atherosclerotic risk factors, and their LDL on diagnosis is <70, would you still start a moderate-intensity statin?

I’ve already asked many times but still am unsure. How much do you consider a spike? The most common consensus I see is 1h after food: <140 2 hours after food: <120

Anything above is a spike. So if I’m under those numbers at said time, is it not a spike? Let’s say my fasting glucose is 5.4 mmol/l. Is 7.4 mmol/l 1 hour after food okay?

Hello. I have type 1 diabetes. Recently, a doctor told me to increase my basal insulin (lantus) from 24 units to 30 units. But I still get morning highs. Only when I use 5-8 units of rapid-acting insulin do I get normal readings in the morning. I did it twice. First at 2 am and second was at midnight before bed. I got good results. But I wonder why increasing my basal doesn't really lower my morning BG. And do I really have to just wake up at 3 am and use rapid acting insulin to be healthier? Whys my basal not working?

Note: These days I had a perfect day meal-wise. I ate healthy and was in range throughout the day. And I ate just cheese before bed.

Hey folks, my son (9) was diagnosed with T1D at the end of January. He's currently in the honeymoon phase and typically requires very little insulin to stay in range.

The one time we have consistent sugar management issues is when he jumps on the trampoline at home. Lows are typical after Diver if they jump (though we also found it to be amazing for dropping highs if we underestimated carbs/his pancreas doesn't help as much).

All that preamble for the main question: my son was invited to a trampoline park for a birthday party in a few weeks - how do I maintain his sugar levels whole he jumps his heart out for ~2 hours? What's a target range I should aim for ( 80 is way too low while doing intense exercise. He'll be below 60 in 10 minutes.) Any tips for approach and management that minimizes risk and let's him play like a kid?

Diagnosed T2 the year I turned 50. I was determined to take on the difficult challenge of managing it through diet and exercise, which is no joke. After a couple of years I actually got down to pre-diabetic range.

Needless to say, the A1C started creeping up, despite a disciplined low/no carb diet and daily exercise. My doc sent me to an endo who confirmed I'm T1.5. Negative Gad 65 and still producing insulin though it's on the lower side, so I am now starting on mediation (good ol' metformin) to increase insulin sensitivity, and we'll go from there.

It's been a roller coaster that I'm sure many of you have gone through. Questioning whether I'm really doing enough to keep my A1C under control (despite family, friends, coworkers, and doctor lauding my efforts); then relieved that it's not that I'm not doing all the right things and that it's because I'm actually T1.5; to being dismayed to having to start medication after avoiding it for 8 years; to being pleased that it is controllable through medication; to being bummed that, albeit potentially at a sloth's pace, can be progressive and that insulin might be in my future; to the acknowledgement that this is manageable and that I can still expect a long life ahead of me even if I eventually need to start insulin.

I empathize and commiserate with all of y'all's challenges managing this disease, and laud all your efforts and hard work in doing so. We are not alone in this!

I have got this problem couple of times in the past few months (I am newly diagnosed with t1d) where my blood sugar would be normal 2 or 3 hours after a meal but spike to 200 and more after that, novorapid seemed to be working fine and after a lot of trial and error I found out that changing my Tresiba would solve the problem, so I figured that it was more sensitive to room temperature than novorapid and I started always storing it in the fridge.

I asked my endo about it and she said that it should be fine to keep it at room temperature not under direct sunlight, but I kept it in the fridge anyway.

Problem is that power went out during the night for about 12 hours, and it wasn’t that hot it was about 18-25c but the same problem happened again and I changed the cartridge but nothing changed so I changed it again and the same problem continued for about a week, so I went to the pharmacist and told her what happened and they told me that it probably is ruined and I had to buy a new pen.

So I really need to ask you guys, how do you store Tresiba, and I get my insulin from the hospital which takes about 30 min drive home and at summer now it could get hot (30c) and in a car, so should I get a cooler or insulin case, and was that the reason why it went bad faster in the first place, is Tresiba really that sensitive to heat, also where in the fridge do you store it cause I am afraid it gets too cold and freeze

My doctor has prescribed several different CGMs. At first I was opposed to them, just because they looked so big. (Freestyle libre 2) We have tried several, more than once, and every single one has failed within 2 hours and has left a huge knot under my skin. She's says I'm one of the miniscule population that can't use them. So frustrating. Anyone else, or just me?

I was diagnosed with T2 about 2 months ago. I have been taking my meds, exercising and wearing a GCM.

I have been documenting foods that cause a spike and those that do not.

My question is this. Is it possible for your body to change and foods that cause a spike don’t anymore or foods that you tolerate now begin to cause a spike?

Is anyone else having issues the last few months getting refills on their insulin vials? Specifically novalog in my case. It’s always out of stock and doesn’t come on their orders regularly. Last time I had to take a partial refill because their shipment just didn’t come.

Found this in my notes app, this was 2 days before I was diagnosed with diabetes 😅

I had texted my mom about it and she said it could be diabetes but she didn’t think so😭