#hyperglycaemia

[redux-but-they-have-nice-legs]

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[grizou79giroud]

He is so endearing 😭

[flutterbyfairy]

actually diabetes is never "badly managed" or "poorly controlled" because blood sugar readings don't hold moral worth.

[transmutationisms]

i have a handful of anonymous asks in my inbox right now asking about harm reduction as applied to eating disorders that their loved ones are experiencing. i'm not answering these individually, both because it would get repetitive and because i don't know your loved ones and can't give them personal advice, but i did want to say a few general things on this topic.

the basic principles of harm reduction are the same in regards to EDs as anything else. the point here is not to force a person to stop doing something dangerous (this is impossible) or even to pressure them to stop (this also doesn't work, and will often have the effect of making you into a person they don't feel safe around and can't turn to for help, thus actually decreasing their access to support and resources). instead, the goal of harm reduction generally is to give people the knowledge and resources they need to engage in risky behaviours as safely as possible. the reasons people do things that are physically or socially harmful to them vary, obviously, but in general these behaviours are serving some purpose in the person's life, like providing emotional 'blunting' they need to deal with otherwise intolerable circumstances, or meeting a physical need for specific substances. harm reduction meets people where they are, beginning with the premise that they deserve basic respect, dignity, and self-determination, whether or not they continue to engage in behaviours that may be endangering them.

some baseline harm reduction strategies for EDs could include:

take necessary safety precautions if (over)exercise is a feature of the disorder, or if you are at risk for fainting; ideally, have someone around (or reachable by phone) who can help in case of injury

do your best to compensate for any micronutrient deficiencies resulting from food restriction; dietary supplementation may be necessary

know if any substances/pharmaceuticals you may use (recreationally or not) can affect you more strongly, faster, or more dangerously on an empty stomach; here, harm reduction for EDs will overlap with harm reduction for drug use

know the signs of electrolyte imbalance and resultant cardiac events, particularly in EDs involving purging by laxative use or self-induced vomiting; keep a stockpile of items like sports drinks/gels that can rapidly replenish electrolytes; know where to seek emergency medical treatment and how to recognise when it may be vitally necessary

monitor long-term health risks, like bone density loss, tooth enamel damage, hyperglycaemia (in cases of diabulimia), &c. note that both this step and the above require finding medical practitioners who will treat patients non-judgmentally and without threat of institutionalisation

....and so forth.

harm reduction plans are highly individualised: they depend on the person's own goals and desires. a harm reduction plan might include strategies for engaging in ED behaviours less frequently or intensely, and may even include a long-term goal of recovery. however, harm reduction has not 'failed' if the person doesn't want to, or can't, reduce frequency or severity of behaviours right now or ever. ED harm reduction that does include goals for reducing behaviours, without necessarily trying to eliminate them entirely, might include strategies like:

purge less frequently; avoid or reduce flushing and chew/spit

reduce food restriction by raising calorie limits, not counting calories at all, eating certain 'fear foods', &c

identify triggers for restriction, binging/purging, &c; try to avoid those triggers (& possibly enlist assistance doing this)

ask someone trusted to eat with you if this would help you, for example, become more comfortable with eating non-restrictively, and turn eating into a social connection rather than a stressful event

consume a sufficient amount of food regularly and consistently <- this is the bedrock of all recovery work

again, though, the particular strategies in a person's harm reduction plan will depend on what they want to implement and are capable of doing right now. a person who's not ready for any step that asks them to engage in fewer behaviours, or to engage in behaviours less frequently, can still benefit from a harm reduction approach if they're interested. this is a conversation that should always be approached non-judgmentally and with the understanding that any harm reduction plan depends on the person's own capacities and goals. harm reduction is not about telling someone else what would be 'best' for them in an 'ideal' world. it's about meeting them where they are right now.

something important to note about EDs is that efforts to restrict food and food groups and to shrink body size are considered extremely common and 'normal' in much of the contemporary popular culture, and are frequently encouraged and prescribed by medical practitioners. this means that even when you are worried about someone with a self-endangering ED, there is often a considerable risk that, in trying to help them, you might still be promoting or acceding to the same fatphobic logic that can fuel the ED. if you, for instance, think that pursuing intentional weight loss is generally benign or healthy; if you have ideas about what size a person's body 'should' be based on things like actuarial charts; if you think that some foods are universally 'bad' and need to be restricted or eliminated; if you think that food should be 'earned' or compensated for by physical activity—stop, do not pass go, and do not try to dispense any kind of advice, harm reduction or otherwise, to someone struggling with an ED. you are not capable of being a resource here unless and until you are committed to a politics of fat liberation, disability rights, mad liberation, and anti-racism. you are not reducing harm if you are contributing to further entrenching the cultural beliefs and economic mechanisms of fatphobia and body fascism that the ED itself thrives on.

(**i am not saying that all EDs start or end with the desire to be thin as articulated through white supremacist body ideals, but it is a very common feature at this moment in history, and having these ideas reinforced, including through the lens of medical fatphobia, can certainly contribute to or worsen already-present behaviours and thought patterns where EDs are concerned.)

harm reduction also means giving a person the knowledge they need to evaluate their own goals and needs. in regards to EDs specifically, lots of public health communication is confounded by industry-funded diet and 'obesity' research that prescribes food restriction, compensatory exercise, and other recognisably 'eating disordered' behaviours, especially to fat people. many people with EDs, and their loved ones, may not even realise how many misconceptions they have learned about body size, nutrition, and the health risks of EDs. some basic places to start learning about these things from a weight-neutral / fat-liberationist angle that i would suggest include: christy harrison's podcast 'food psych' (her book is also decent but treads a lot of the same ground); gwyneth olwyn's work; lindo bacon and lucy aphramor's papers on 'health at every size'; jennifer gaudiani's book 'sick enough', which is a good starter resource on the medical effects of EDs. note that none of these resources are working within an explicitly harm reductionist framework, and imo make some missteps in this arena! but they still contain insights and information that can be useful to those who are interested in harm reduction, and to those with EDs generally.

harm reduction can be a tool to recovery, or a step on that road; it can also be an alternative for people who are not ready to seek recovery, and who may never be ready. the reality is that you cannot force someone to stop engaging in behaviours they rely on to live, whether drug use, EDs, or anything else. harm reduction proceeds from this place and from a fundamental commitment to respect for people who are generally already suffering. when approaching a loved one, you may or may not be able to initiate a conversation in which you express, eg, that you are worried about them hurting themselves, and would like to offer whatever emotional or material resources you can to help. but you have to go into any such interaction understanding that they may very well already know all of the risks of what they're doing, and may have other reasons they can't or don't want to stop. if you're trying to impose your will on them---by force, pressure, or coercion---you're not doing harm reduction, and you're most likely alienating them and turning yourself into a person they don't feel safe around where these behaviours are concerned.

[darksigns-exe]

All The Things Yet To Come - Nicholas Ruffilo x OFC

Paring: Nicholas Ruffilo x OFC

Warnings: Might lead to hyperglycaemia (it’s just that sweet okay), none

Word Count: 887

Nick had known for a long time that she was his endgame, call him a sappy romantic fool but when you’ve been with someone for as long as they’ve been together you just know.

Nick doesn't make a secret of the fact that he likes the more comfortable things in life. He doesn’t need a lot to be happy. Most days all he needs is his girl, a nice movie and a cozy corner in their living room.

It’s the thing he looks forward to the most after a tour. Sure he loves the boys but the calm little space they’ve created for themselves out here beats the open road by miles.

He’s got his head in Mari’s lap, her fingers in his hair and there’s no place he’d rather be. They’d spent the weekend holed up here, just coming down from all the stress of touring. Their reunion had, as one would expect, not just been lovey dovey. As a first order of business they’d consecrated the dining table and then the counter and then the sofa.

He presses a kiss to her still bare thigh, just above the tattoo he’d given her too many years ago. She’d touched it up at some point, he thinks.

Sometimes he thinks that Noah is right when he calls them an old married couple. Maybe he should ask her some time, even though he knows that they don’t really need that kind of formality. It’d be nice to make it official. Nick had known for a long time that she was his endgame, call him a sappy romantic fool but when you’ve been with someone for as long as they’ve been together you just know. And the sacrifices she has made and continues to make from them only testament it farther. She’d paid half their rent when the band went to L.A., stayed behind in Virginia and worked her ass off so that they could do this without too much worrying. From the first time they started hanging out way back when she’d fit into their little group, made sure that everyone ate, that they slept enough and put their heads back on straight whenever necessary.

Truth be told they’d pretty much been a done deal since he’d asked her out for the first time so he doesn’t really know what’s stopped him from asking her all these years. He thinks that it might have been, at least in a very convoluted way, a fear of being judged by the others. Nick knows, of course, that when Folio calls her mom it’s in pure jest and love, but sometimes he thinks that the rest of them take it all a little bit too easy.

The only one out of the four them that had any kind of grounds to relate to him was Jolly. He has the utmost respect for how long they’ve managed to go long distance. Hell and heaven know that Nick starts getting a little restless when he goes longer than a day without talking to her.

Noah and Bee are a different topic all together. He’s glad that they’ve finally managed to figure their shit out. They’re good for each other, make each other just that little bit better. And seeing Noah positively beaming is just an added bonus. The guy deserves a little happiness after the shit he’s already seen.

And then there’s Nick. He worries sometimes that the guy will end up with some girl just to have someone. He knows how much the youngest of the bunch wants the whole deal. A pretty girl, a house, a dog, big yard and all that shit. He’d spilled his guts one night on the bus and Nicholas was sure that he was one step away from breaking into tears about it.

He looks up at Mari. It clicks into place then. He wants to ask her, not because he feels like he has to but because he wants to. He wants it for them, no one else. Doesn’t matter if it’d be just the two of them there or all of their friends and family. It’d be nice to have it on paper.

Nicholas catches her hand when it passes over his chest. She looks down at him with those big brown eyes that have been his ruin since day one.

His eyes find their joined hands. There’s a little scar on her middle finger from an unfortunate accident with a knife. And then there’s one of the many tattoos he’d given her. His own skin is littered with her work.

They’ve already written their promises all over each other's skin. Another one on paper doesn’t sound so bad.

Maybe he could have planned something more, he could have actually bought a ring or put some thought into what he could say. But elaborate speeches and pretty diamond rings haven’t ever been their thing. He could probably propose with a little thing made from sticks and leaves and she’d say yes. He has none of those things, but the moment feels right.

“Penny for your thoughts?” Her thumb grazes across the back of his hand.

He draws in one final breath before the plunge. He knows her answer, but it still feels a little terrifying. Like standing on the edge of a pool and knowing that you will get wet but not knowing just how cold the water is.

“Marry me?”

The words sit between them for a second, then two and then she smiles.

“Thought you’d never ask.”

[martiwikiwi]

I've been all day watching Sonic Boom and preparing these character designs for a short comic. It's been a nice Monday despite the hyperglycaemia.

[lavenderskimask]

HYPERGLYCAEMIA

by salem woods

march 2024

[vulnonapix1234]

Hassel knows how to inject insulin and the symptoms of hyperglycaemia. He learned it for Brassius. He also often calls him during breaks, so that his partner wouldn't forget to measure his blood sugar

[hammerbonk]

For the 2024 april fools event (or 2025 for en servers ig) sega should get a random duo (doesnt even have to be a unit duo or a duo with a trust rank) and make them sing the sappiest love song possible. Im talking so cheesy that it raises your cholesterol. So sugary sweet that it gives you hyperglycaemia. imagine the chaos. Imagine the mayhem

[obscene-visage]

Hyperglycaemia sucks.

[coffeedrgn87]

Thanks a lot for the tag, @emmalovesdilemmas 💜

Relationship Status: Blissfully single 🥳

Favorite Colour: Purple 💜😂 such a revelation, I know. I also love silver and emerald green, turquoise and sunflower yellow and Chinese red…impossible to pick just one. Is this cheating? Can’t just pick one colour, feels like abandoning half of me.

Favourite Food: 黄骨鱼 (Huanggu Yu, Yellow Catfish) but I haven’t been able to get my hands on this dish since leaving China. Also, does coffee count? Asking for a friend…

Song stuck in my head: Why you calling at 11:30 when you only wanna do me dirty… (Light Switch by Charlie Puth)

Last thing I googled: What does a sugar high feel like? Very disappointing search results as Google thought I was looking for the symptoms of hyperglycaemia which I wasn’t… oh well!

Time: 11:44 a.m.

Dream Trip: Two weeks on a coffee farm in South America, a trip to Brisbane, Australia, travelling around Tibet and also a visit to the Yellow Mountains in China. Oh and we mustn’t forget Singapore. I’d be happy to do all that in one go but really it’s just a bucket list of things and I refuse to choose one thing.

No pressure tagging @katie-alden, @phoebe-delia, @thebooktopus, and whoever else is interested… 💜

[wolftattoo]

doctor wanted my thyroid tested and i was like sure whatever to be safe but when i saw that snickers post and someone in the notes mentioned hyperglycaemia i looked itup and um .

[mlmcompanyinindia]

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[clerk427]

At times I forget I'm disabled, and I'm reminded in the most unceremonious ways

Like, when my sugar drops way too low and I almost start seeing things and legit think I'll die, especially at night

Or those awful stomach aches I get when my body is intoxicated after a prolonged period of hyperglycaemia (those did become a lot rarer as I got older and started watching my sugar levels more, but still)

Oh the horrors! /silly

[martiwikiwi]

It’s Acespec Comic Share weekend!!

Super cool. Since today’s prompt is about character designs let me bring back my CLERIC HUNTER PURESOUL.

Puresoul (he/him) is a very powerful elf sorcerer worshipper of very ancient gods. He is diabetic (like myself!) and has very bad headaches when has hyperglycaemias... He’s also very tired all the time when he’s not angry at something/someone. But even when he’s angry he behaves like the best friend in the world, because he is. He is also very fan of crochet, actually, if you were his friend you’d have your closet full of the cutest vests ever.

About his design I’ll say he has colorless eyes, a very rare trait that seems to be related with his skill of creating weird magic tricks that would only work once.

He is gay demisexual and kinda falls in love with his archenemy Warrior of the Stars Stargazer. They have a very special enemies-to-lovers bond with a bittersweet ending and I can’t wait to draw a loooong comic about it.

Let me tag @authorofdragons​ so zem can join the party.

[nikolascabbage]

don’t publicly answer this unless you want to..BUT I have exclusively been dating type 1 diabetics guys. My gay ass loves that they have sweet tasting cum. Which I mean, is usually a sign of hyperglycaemia but they manage it pretty well.

I walk thirty minutes uphill to go to church for Ash Wednesday today, with me at peace with both the Lord and my life. Then I see this.

We all need Jesus, but some of you REALLY need to go to church. For everyone's sake.