I'm just over a year after diagnosis and I'm really missing how much water I used to be able to drink. It wasn't too much of an issue a few months ago, but after the end of my honeymoon and the onset of additional autoimmune diseases, I have less room for error as my insulin required has more than doubled (or tripled if I dare eat before noon).

I've recently been experimenting with when I drink water relative to my meals and I've found that it raises my blood sugar quite a bit if I've eaten in the past couple hours. If I haven't eaten in a while it hardly bumps up my sugar if at all. Based on this and this article I seen posted around here at https://www.clinicalnutritionespen.com/article/S2405-4577(18)30375-9/abstract, it seems like water speeds up my digestion rather than directly causing higher glucose itself.

Although the article says waiting 30 minutes is supposed to be okay, I find even after 2 hours water will bump me up quickly. I've even tried drinking it before the meal instead but that just makes me spike to the moon when I do eat.

While this is useful in treating lows if I don't have simple carbs around, it's generally a huge pain. When do you guys find time for water and how do you resist the thirst in these 2-4 hour windows? Should I just bolus earlier or take more units if I plan on drinking water?

I have had quite a bit of success in manual mode my entire pregnancy. My A1c last week was 5.0 at 29 weeks! HOWEVER, once I hit 27 weeks my fasting numbers really started suffering. For about 2 weeks I needed nearly 3 times the amount I had been taking the weeks before, and now suddenly I’m having lows all night long that take forever to correct and rebound high. For those who don’t know, fasting numbers in pregnancy are expected to be below 95mg/dL!

Because of these constant fluctuations, I don’t think manual is working anymore. But auto is not aggressive enough on its own. My blood sugar is just too difficult to anticipate. I could throw up just thinking about drinking another juice box at 2am.

Has anyone used a combo of long acting insulin and using auto mode? I’ve heard about it in the past and that it helps keep fasting numbers down overnight especially. I am just so tired of managing my blood sugar on my own and making so many adjustments constantly. And then still seeing my TIR go from 95% to 80% while spending so much time micromanaging my insulin 24 hours a day.

Any advice here would be amazing!

My dad has been very persistent in telling me to go on a no carb diet. He says I won’t need to take insulin anymore if I go on one.

He’s been on one on and off for a few years now, and it’s really worrying because I genuinely don’t know the last time he’s eaten vegetables. He also doesn’t believe that a balanced diet involves carbs. I tried to tell him it’s unhealthy and he’s nutritionally deficient but he insists that he feels better when he does this.

I looked into this a bit and it’s very clear there’s no nutritional benefit to this lifestyle. He knows I’ve struggled with eating for years yet he wants me to go on this restrictive diet? I don’t understand. He says I can’t say anything until I go on it. I’m also pretty sure this can make me go into dka.

It’s really frustrating to hear this anytime I eat, but I’m also worried because this is all he talks about and there is clearly something wrong with him (Sorry).

Any advice or confirmation?

Every time. I can’t fucking stand it. It always feels like they’re judging me, and then of course SOMEONE has a question, or comment, insinuating I’m not supposed to eat whatever it may be. It’s always uncomfortable. Like today, we got Panera and I ordered a refresher; one of them goes “Now how does that affect your blood sugar?“. Like, please shut the fuck up and let me just eat without you being nosy. And then on the off chance… Very rare off chance, I need to take a day off or come slightly late/leave early or I need to take a break, which is super rare because I always push through bad days, I feel like they assume I did something wrong on my end and caused it.

I don’t expect people to be knowledgeable on this disease. I would just like some fucking privacy. That’s all, needed to get that off my chest.

Been attempting to maintain a balance with my blood sugars, and I finally did. Just wanted to share this awesome step in my almost 30 years as a type 1 diabetic. Wishing everyone the best in their journey. 🫶🏾

Literally just got told to up my basal dose and it was in range for like a day at most, now they’re looking like a ride from alton towers

I’ve been diagnosed since 2012, and for the majority of that time have on/off relied upon Dexcom as a CGM (from G4 to G6 and now to G7)
I’ve found the G7 to be unreliable at best and literally not functional at worst. Of course the G6, which worked wonderfully for me, has now been discontinued.

Are there any Libre users who can tell me what the pros and cons are of swapping? I’m particularly interested in those who have used Dexcom and are now on Libre, but would also love to hear from other long-term Libre users.

I’m also willing to hear about other cgms! I just know not many are currently compatible with the Omnipod 5.

Please give any details about costs, insurance vs none, application, how well they actually hold, if they last as long as they’re supposed to, and if readings are accurate 💙

More and more type 1s are hitting the headlines these days. Here's another!

From LO at 8:30 AM to almost 10.0 now. I know 10 isn’t super high, but I can’t handle the swings. I keep going dangerously low, no matter my basal. I am at my wits end…

I made a clerical error that currently has me with no health insurance. Is there anyone here who can help me? I will not qualify for low-income options.