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Hi, Last time I had intimacy it was before my diagnosis. A long time ago now. I'm curious what range to aim for at the start of sex? Should I keep orange juice and glucose tabs on the cupboard? And if I need to test my sugar in the midst of it, then at what time frame should I consider? Thank...

Hi, I'm the person who complained of morning nausea a couple months back (better, but not gone). After a never ending search for answers, I found this abstract that describes me down to a T. "This case report describes a man with Type 1 diabetes who developed agoraphobia with panic disorder...

Are there any men or women (non-pregnancy related) who have dealt with or deals with morning nausea/diarrhea/anxiety combo? I went through mega-hardcore stress during this summer and also developed a gigantic abscess on my tooth/gum. I was prescribed a week's worth of antibiotics, the strongest...

Hi all, I've been using Insuman Rapid ever since my T1 diagnosis (2015) and my diabetic doc has prescribed a new form of insulin called Apidra. She said that now I can inject even after eating and it should ease my life, and from now on I should eat 3 meals a day. However, I'm used to eating 5...

Hi, I'm not new around here, but unfortunately I can't find like-minded people in the local diabetic community due to disease differences (type 2-s) or age differences (children or elderly). I'm a 30 yo Eastern-European man living with a loving and supportive parent. My old time friends have...

Have a question for those who quit smoking after their diagnosis. I've read some scientific journals in the past of how smoking affects sugar levels, and as far as I remember there wasn't a significant difference between smokers and non-smokers (we're talking about >1 point or so). When healthy...

Because it sure feels like it! I keep a strict diet, but once every month or every two months, I order myself a pizza. The past two times (prior to this one) I had X levels, and gave X units of insulin. Not 2 hours passed by, and I was under 5. Weird. The very same thing happened in December...

I and my wife lived in a happy marriage up until the point where I got diagnosed with this disease. I remember the first time I was sent home with "DKA-high" levels and shown how to inject myself. So after I done that, I was relieved that it was so easy and painless. Fast forward a year, now I...

27 seems to be the magic number. No matter where I look, chances are far greater that an individual with T1D was diagnosed at 27. I'm not even the first to see this pattern, and there was a discussion about this outside this forum. So what is with 27? For a long time I tried to believe that...

I'm trying not to have a nervous breakdown here. I've never seen anything like this before. I usually check my blood sugar on a finger of my left hand, and although I do venture into 12-s during the day, but I manage to keep things strict enough that I haven't been above 13 since the beginning...

I want to know how far can you push your body, and whether exercise can become a friend or foe? My wife has given me a second chance, and I don't want to fail her. The problem is that my diabetes is still considered fresh by some (1 year), but it made things a thousand times more difficult...

I have switched my in-between snack (bowl of strawberries) to a bowl of berries, the exact mixture you see on the picture of the included link. Since then I started to show symptoms of DKA and my glucose increased by 2-3 points each day. It was the exact same amount in gramms as the...

I wanted to ask if improving your liver functions would affect your blood sugar in a positive way? For example: you have high cholesterol and thus benign fatty liver, but not clinically relevant yet so your doctor shrugs it off. Would "tuning" up your liver through lifestyle and diet give you...

I wish to know how could someone deal with heat intolerance? I know that not all of us are the same. I'm young and not overweight, but would consider my heat intolerance severe. Been having a tooth abscess for a long time now because of bad dental work, and in the last month there were no weeks...