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My godmother recently had her pancreas removed and she thinks that if I have T1, then I can help her with her newfound diabetes, but I don't have only internal secretions, and she has nothing that the pancreas produces. When I said that if she has a lot of hypo, then she should reduce the dose...

Has anyone come across the measurement of bg in percentages or fractions? How does this convert into millimoles per liter? I came across this in a book about the history of insulin and these units are not similar to either mmol/l or mg/dl. if it is still approximately similar to mmol/l (assuming...

Today my diabetes turns 20 years old.Of course, my friends without diabetes will gladly get drunk with me for any reason and there is nothing special about the fact that I did not die, but still I have a reason to celebrate, moreover, I am not at all sure that I will live to see the next...

I have some "extra" money and I would like to try omnipod. My question is, what do I need besides the pod itself? How is insulin poured into it? is it possible to control an omnipod from a phone?

I remember that someone on this forum shared a link to a site with low-carb recipes (yes, I realize that a lot of people did it here), it was definitely a full-fledged site with a lot of recipes, but all I remember is meatloaf with mozzarella. I really want to find this site, but I can't. There...

I recently discovered that I have proteinuria, I had urine test strips and they showed a value somewhere between the norm and the first green square, which was designated as 0.1 g/l. Scared, I did a protein analysis in daily urine, the protein value in urine was 36.9, which is higher than...

It is generally believed that autoimmune aggression is innate in us, but we need some kind of trigger (infection, stress, etc.) after which the immune system will start killing our beta cells, but I don't remember anything similar before I started diabetes. Do you remember what it was for you?

I saw a post where looking for a owner for a diabetic cat. I've been wanting to have a cat for a long time, but I'm not sure I can adequately take care of someone. But I thought that probably a diabetic owner is the best option for a diabetic cat, because I know what to do with this disease...

I began to notice that my bg was greatly reduced about 4 hours after the bolus injection, but the duration of the bolus is about 3 hours, and even if the bolus acts, it should not act so much after so much time. for example, I injected a bolus at lunch and ate, then about the standard behavior...

I find it quite difficult to wash off the glue from my hand after removing the libre sensor. It is not washed with soap or alcohol, it seems to me that my skin will peel off faster than I will wash this glue. In general, it takes me several days wash all the glue off my hand Sometimes it seems...

Hello everyone. Over the past few weeks, the dose of my bolus has dropped by half, and the dose of bazal has decreased by 20%. I have no idea what could have caused this. My diet and lifestyle have not changed. If earlier I needed about 9 units of novorapid for breakfast, now I inject 4 for the...

I've always read and heard from other people that stress increases bg, but lately I'm starting to notice that the higher my stress level, the better bg. Under stress, I may forget to inject insulin or eat, but for some reason bg remains within the normal range, as if my body can cope without...

I just read this https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2020/11/11-myths-people-with-diabetes-are-sick-of-hearing/ I've heard all the myths except that we can't cut our toenails. Where did this belief come from? How diabetes can prevent us from cutting our toenails at all?! By the way, I didn't see...

I hear this very often from diabetics themselves, but I have never seen a serious scientific work on this topic (if you have a link, please share it). When I have to show my passport or tell people how old I am, they are usually very surprised that I am so old, and recently I was told that I...

I want to argue with someone about Banting, Best and the discovery of insulin. They saved my life (and since you're on this forum, they probably saved your life too), so I treat them like gods, but when I read their biographies, I want to say "what kind of bad people are you (the rest of the...

I thought we needed a chat where you can just whine a little about cases in which you understand what happened and why and you know what to do, but you just want to whine about it to someone who, unlike your friends or relatives without diabetes, will not be afraid for you, but will say that-...

I made a bad joke when I refused to go to the fitness center with a friend. I told her, "Why do I need fitness if I don't have endogenous insulin?". She heard enough of me saying that insulin is the cause of fullness and bought herself metformin. I don't know how she did it without a doctor's...

I bought myself a gmc, and its readings sometimes differ from the readings of the glucose meter by 2 units. The glucose meter showed 6.9, and libre was 4.8, libre showed LO, and the glucose meter showed 3.2. Is this typical for libre or did I do something wrong during installation?

If you got diabetes as a child, how did your parents react to it? Have they tried to treat you in any non-standard ways? Did they refuse to inject you with insulin? What happened in the end? Did they say that you were healthy when things weren't going well at all? It's just interesting how...

What BG does your doctor require you to have? I recently started trying to keep my BG level the same as in healthy people, but my doctor said, "don't do it, it's very dangerous, because the risk of hypoglycemia increases greatly." I know that low BG are much more dangerous than high but I also...