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Chronic living really do be a full-time job (with no days off and plenty of overtime). Be kind to yourself !!

#typeone #t1d #type1diabetes #type1 #typeonediabetes #chronic #chronichealthcondition #healthcondition #insulin #autoimmune #coeliac #reminder #positive #helpful #mindset #kind #bekindtoyourself

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Me remembering how food and insulin bring me back from the dead

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"yeah don't worry tho I'm doing fine"

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"It's not what happens to you but how you react to what happens to you"

Me: emotionally reacting to things that have happened to me

#type1diabetes #insulindependent #mentalhealth #mentalattitude #stateofmind #chronic #chroniccondition

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My bloods: 18.5

Me: adequate amount of correction

Me, one hour later: going on a low intensity 15 min walk that barely raises my heart rate

My bloods: 5.7 and falling FAST

Me: unbelievable yet totally believable

#type1diabetes #type1 #type1problems #insulin #bloodsugars #chroniccondition #disability

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when you try to express the whole carefree "I got everything I need" persona but you know that it's conflicted because you actually need a test kit, spare test strips, lancets, batteries for the test kit, food, insulin pens, insulin, more insulin in case u run out, litres of water, more food, glucose tabs, more food, a whole BOTTLE or two of original lucozade, more food, plasters in case ur heels decide to blister, more food, about three layers of clothing if not four so that you have enough warmth to keep your circulation going strong, an extra three days just to go about your normal thing with EXTRA attention in case there's anything you need that didn't stand out the first six times you thought it through, reminding yourself that even though it feels petty and mundane this shit is not simple or easy!!

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#justdiabetesthings that nobody talks about

- catching every single cold and infectious disease ever because your immune system sucks

- bg levels too high? time for excruciating cramps in a random body part!

- when you can feel your bg dropping

- Constant Thirst™

- related: needing to use the bathroom all the damn time

- do i have my meter in my bag? do i have my insulin in my bag? do i have a snack in case my bg drops? do i have glucagon in case i pass out with no warning? do i have my phone in case i need to call an ambulance? do i h

- someone non-diabetic: “why do you always have a bag with you lmao”

- h e a d a c h e s

- sensory overload when you’re hypoglycaemic

- “why do you care about carbs so much lmao”

- “i would have offered you some cake but you can’t eat sugar right? you poor thing uwu”

- when you’re pretty sure your bg is too low but also what if you’re faking it as an excuse to eat something

- “you don’t look disabled though??”

- your friends looking mildly horrified when you casually joke about stabbing yourself several times a day

- when your phone/laptop is low on charge, and you’re like “oh no it’s going hypoglycaemic” but you’re only half joking

- the increased risk of anxiety and depression, to an extent that many diabetic clinics routinely test their patients for symptoms

- finding someone else who’s diabetic and they understand

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Want to know how corrupt the pharmaceutical industry is?

See this?

This is called Afrezza. It’s an inhaler for diabetic insulin. That’s right. An inhaler. That means no more needles. It’s only for fast acting insulin, but it could still vastly improve the life of a lot of diabetics. 

Imagine having to constantly prick yourself with needles to keep yourself alive, and then suddenly there’s a new product that could change the whole way you live your life for the better.

And here’s the thing: it works. It works really really well. People with diabetes that have been lucky enough to have used it think it’s amazing.

But sadly, it’s probably going to end up as a failure because the pharmaceutical company (a French company called Sanofi) that was in charge of marketing it didn’t care enough to actually try. Not only that, but they made it incredibly expensive so hardly anyone could afford it. Most people have never heard of it, and the way things are going, no one else ever will.

Please reblog this to raise awareness of this product and hopefully get another company to market it. It could change so many lives.

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I’m reminded how dangerous and invisible this illness is right now as I sit nursing a Coke and eating and apple, trying not to pass out in the middle of a library while no one around me probably realizes there is anything wrong

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Imagine living in a house with a family that is both as dysfunctional and mentally exhausting as your body but being reduced to staying in the house more often than not because of crippling health related anxiety and stress

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I was sorry

Dear lecturer I’m sorry that when I wake up on a morning I can’t just simply slide my type one diabetes into a box and forget about it for the rest of the day

And that it means I’m often (apologetically, to my grace) late. That I have to put my human needs before my course work so that I am able to be healthy enough to complete it to the best of my ability

And that I must make sure I spend extra time on a morning eating, after that time you would not let me eat to treat a low blood sugar and stop the shakes and racing heartbeat and sweats that you were too preoccupied worrying about being told off for letting me eat to notice

And that I sometimes get weak and cry in private as if someone threw an onion at me in the form of so many condescending looks and disapproval where encouragement used to rest

And that I have to constantly worry about something which your body takes care of for you, for I can not live the way that I used to in denial pretending my pancreas was coping with the carbs I needed, in avoidance of the looks that make me feel about as appreciated as the rain when you don’t realise that I’m tired because my body is shutting down and not because I’m a typical winy teen recovering from a hangover from being out in the club late last night

I am sorry also that I was even sorry Sorry that I told you I was sorry for taking highly crucial action and eating in your lesson, all because I let my inconvenience to you come before my pulse and survival Sorry that you suck

I was sorry

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^how to make diabetes your bitch

After sharing my life with this disease for a decade, I finally decided to pay it some homage. At first glance, you see “type one.” But if you take the time to look at it in the right light, you will see it actually says, “type none.” This tattoo is technically incomplete; when I am cured, I will have the white N filled in with black ink, turning type one to type none. Over the course of these 10 years, I’ve realized that the only way to handle my diabetes is to look on the bright side of things. So here’s to hope and here’s to hope for a cure. #typeone (at hope)