Diabetic Things

May 30

Convo with me and my dad today.
Dad: what should I do if I hit the lotto?
Me: buy me a new pancreas & immune system
Dad: if I could buy that I’d sell everything I own & get it now lotto or not. <3
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Submitted by: Anonymous

May 24

Diabetic meet up

Hey there - I was hoping you guys can post this so your followers can see it! I’m trying to organize a meet up for diabetics on tumblr. Hopefully sometime this summer, and somewhere around the Washington DC area (USA). If anyone is interested, please message me!

May 19

Battle Royale 2

Has anyone else seen it?

I was just wondering as there is a diabetic girl in it and, whilst I can understand why she’d be panicking about running out of insulin, I don’t get why she’s so forceful with her injection.

Normally when you inject you don’t stab it straight in, you’re more gentle with it as it can sting like hell, right? She injects herself with some force, unless I am mistaken that is.

Does anyone else think this or is it just me?

-Hannah

May 17

Anonymous asked: whats the highest your a1c as been? and at what stage in your life?

I believe my highest A1c was a 12.3. I know that was the last bad one I had and that was 9 months ago. I know for a fact that the first A1c I had done was the highest one and I believe it was around this number.

-Vicky

May 16

Maybe it’s just my local hospital/GP, and this is just a horrendous confession, but we got a tiny ass bottle to put the sample in. Pee everywhere. On your hand. In the bottle.

-Hannah

I referred to my diabetes as my life partner yesterday. My teacher then asked me how long I had been dating them. It was rather hilarious.

-Hannah

Anonymous asked: Has anyone had trouble with birth control? Whenever I take the pill it always makes me really sick, and I have stomach spasms, nausea, etc. And the patches don't work well for me either. Whatever type I use always makes me gain weight, And my periods are horribly irregular. I end up buying pregnancy tests just in case. It's miserable.

Birth control is a common issue, especially with diabetic women and girls. It is not uncommon to have side effects, but the severity of your problems are concerning me slightly. I’d chat to a doctor about it, and remember if you’re uncomfortable with a male doctor you can request a female one.

As for the diabetes, the sickness, and irregular periods can cause problems with that, so maybe ask about other alternatives?

Remember, better to be safe than sorry! And as far as I’m aware, condoms have no effect on diabetes, apart from maybe having a hypo from having too much sex ;) Xxx

-Charley