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damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

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Diabetes is so annoying sometimes.

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I feel rather ashamed about asking for help with changing my ratios, especially when so many other diabetics I know are like “you don’t need a doctor to sign off on changing things! Be empowered!!!” like, obviously having that power is cool and valuable, and right now I’m just stretched thin so I honestly don’t care about trying to adjust things on my own. I’m also a bit hesitant to do so because of how I had the seizure initially after being diagnosed due to just changing stuff on my own, even though I’ve grown a lot since then and have had much more support.

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is it just me or does the way people treat like "dopamine" and "serotonin" in modern pop psych context read exactly like balancing the humors

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I love how rapidly dropping lows are just the embodiment of 🥵 ... But also highs can be too to a degree?

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Love how endocrinologists and nurses say, “bring your meter [to the next appointment]” as though I wouldn’t bring it with me if they didn’t say it

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Me when my number is 300 mg/dL when it was in range before, feeling all the symptoms:

Me when my number is 300 when it used to be 500 mg/dL:

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!!!

Going to my first Slipstream in May this year and I’m HYPED

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For those of you who don’t have diabetes, this is sort of what life is like for those of us on insulin:

Imagine driving a car that has a one hour lag between when you turn the wheel and when the car starts actually turning, and imagine that everytime you make any little adjustment it will continue to effect the car’s direction for over three hours.

Plus imagine that:

a.) you can only look up at the road when you stab one of your fingers until you physically bleed OR

b.) you can look up about every 5 minutes, but what your looking at has a 10 to 15 minute delay (and sometimes you just go randomly blind because you were sitting weird or something) AND -for those of us in the US at least- you have to pay a ridiculous amount of money just to have the privilege to be able to see the road.

In addition to all that, imagine that you can never stop driving- you can’t pull over, you can’t stop when you are sleeping or having a bad day. You can’t stop just feel like you need a break. You have to keep the car on the road or you die.

As a med student I’ve seen some other students and even some doctors be very judgemental about how people handle their chronic illness. Some people will assume that people who are struggling are just lazy or stupid. But unless you live with it every minute of everyday, you have no idea how exhausting and challenging it really is. Please be kind, please be supportive we’re all just trying to keep going, however we can.

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Thirsty? You may be high 

Hungry? You could be low 

But if you don’t sacrifice your blood first 

You’ll never fuckin’ know~

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Me when my number is 300 mg/dL when it was in range before, feeling all the symptoms:

Me when my number is 300 when it used to be 500 mg/dL:

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Love how endocrinologists and nurses say, “bring your meter [to the next appointment]” as though I wouldn’t bring it with me if they didn’t say it

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Don’t👏🏻tell👏🏻diabetics👏🏻about👏🏻a👏🏻diet👏🏻you👏🏻heard👏🏻about👏🏻that👏🏻you👏🏻think👏🏻will👏🏻cure👏🏻their👏🏻diabetes!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

(Whether they have type 1 or type 2, or other lesser known kinds of diabetes! Unless they’re asking specifically for your advice, most people don’t want to hear your bullshit complicated-chronic-illness cure)

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You don’t need to overcome your disability or mental illness to be “worthy”.

There’s a lot of focus on people “defying the odds” and showing that their disability “can’t hold them back”.

But here’s the thing... sometimes your disability does hold you back. Sometimes, no matter how much you want to, you can’t do some things.

And it’s okay. You’re still worthy.

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I had to find a used test strip in order to photoshop this. It wasn’t hard.

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Really mad about having diabetes right now.

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My time in range over the course of a week is typically around 72% and right now it’s 49% 🙃🙃🙃