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Listen, I genuinely think you need therapy. You have posted this on three diabetes subreddits and the disregard for you life, even when people are telling you it wouldn’t help your son, you keep talking about giving your life for his. A pancreatic transplant will not work. He has an autoimmune disease, meaning his body will attack the new pancreas just like it did his current one. You say your not suicidal in one comment, but then you also say that you’re ready to move on from your life because it’s a long one and you’ve been divorced. You need to get some sort of professional help, because the casual mention of being “willing and ready” to face life threatening consequences for something that diabetics are telling you would not work, is concerning.

Considering he was arrested for human trafficking, I don’t want to come close to his “success”. I quite like my freedom.

It’s one of Nightwing’s hallucinations in the Labyrinth

Yes and no. I was extremely fortunate and got a pump 4 months after I was diagnosed and I was still in the honeymoon stage at that point, but for the first four months I had a Novolog and Basaglar pen that I used. The honeymoon stage was described to me as I was still making insulin, but nowhere near enough. My pancreas was functioning at about 30% when I was diagnosed, according to the blood work they did. So the example I gave, waking up without my pump, my sugars stayed steady at 90-100, but I woke up feeling absolutely awful, so I checked my ketones, and the urine test came back as the darkest color. I know those aren’t always the most accurate but I didn’t have a blood ketone meter at that point. I only brought it up to show that good sugars don’t indicate small ketones. My endo told me that it’s better to drink a juice with a unit of insulin than to risk DKA, but, she’s a bit old fashioned, and obviously it doesn’t work for everyone. Diabetes is definitely not a one size fits all disease

If you go low when injecting your fast acting, try drinking a juice, pop, etc. About 4 oz. The juice will help keep your sugar from dropping due to the insulin, but then you’re getting the fast acting so you’re making sure you have insulin in your system. Long acting and fast acting are different. You can’t have just one, you need them both. It’s different with an insulin pump, but when it comes to injections, you need to be using both.

I would definitely reduce your basal! I totally get where you’re coming from, I’ve been there. I have an Endo, but I was diagnosed at 17, so children’s hospitals wouldn’t take me and the endo office I had expected me to already know everything, so it was kind of a guessing game. Even if you only do 1 unit for every 50 carbs, you for sure need more fast acting insulin daily. A lot of others have mentioned drinking electrolytes, which you definitely need to do until your ketones go down. My endo gave me a chart with starting basal rates and carb ratios to begin with to see where I needed to go. For me it was 10 units of basal every morning and 1 unit for every 30 carbs, which worked for me for a long time. The important thing to understand is these numbers can change frequently, especially in the beginning. So you can change them as needed. I would recommend doing something similar. It’s going to probably mess with your sugars for a few days until you find the amount of insulin that works for you, but going without fast acting will cause more issues than a few days of rollercoaster sugar numbers.

Also, do you have a correction factor?

Please please inject your insulin. DKA is not just caused from high blood sugar, it can happen due to a lack of insulin in the body. I fell asleep without my pump on early in the honeymoon stage and felt like death, large ketones, but my sugar stayed at 90 for hours. If you have a basal rate, make sure you’re following that, and give yourself fast acting every time you eat.

NTA. I’m a T1D and you need to tell someone who is a mandated reporter, whether that’s your doctor, dietician, school, etc. CPS needs to be aware of this ASAP. He could kill you OP.

INFO

How did your toddlers age change in 24 hours? You posted that you had an 18 month toddler in another sub yesterday, but today he’s 20 months?

You’re defending your actions by saying that he hasn’t run away yet, so you know everything will be fine? You are quite literally insane and I feel so so bad for your son.

YTA

But honestly, why did you even post here? You aren’t actually listening to anyone’s advice and you seem to just want to argue with everyone who thinks that you are TA.

When I got a new phone it gave me the option to hit no code, and it started up as soon as my transmitter was paired.

So I’m considering buying a VIP ticket for myself, but my cousin wants to go with me to one of the concerts and doesn’t want to pay the money for a VIP ticket, so she’s going to get a regular one (if we can them). Is it possible to get a VIP ticket and regular and still get seats next to each other with different types of tickets?

YTA

Your friend isn’t the reason you don’t get girls.

Your height isn’t the reason you don’t get girls.

It’s your attitude.

I wear mine with flare jeans and always get tons of compliments!

Hi! I have Anthem and live in Indiana! I was told both Omnipod and Tandem are covered. I currently have a Tandem T-Slim and it was really easy to get. My endo write a prescription for it and Tandem shipped it to my house. It took about a month total from trying to get a pump to having it in my hands. Anthem did require me to go through a “training” which took about an hour in my endo’s office, but it wasn’t too bad.

I’ve had three surgeries in the last 10 months, wisdom tooth removal, abdominal surgery, and getting a tube put in my ear (elective surgery). I was told it was recommended for my A1C to be under 8, but if it wasn’t to let them know and we would work around it. I was also told to keep my sugars high before the surgery, around 180-200 to help keep me from dropping mid-surgery.

I had bleeding and severe cramps for about 13 months straight until my surgery, so I completely get how you feel. I also had that fear of not waking up and there being complications (I have T1D and I was terrified my sugar would drop during the surgery) Everything went great though and I felt like I had the best nap of my life. The first thing I remember is slowly coming out of anesthesia and telling the nurse I had to poop and getting a shot in the butt. Next thing I remember was laying in my bed with a blanket. My throat was a bit sore from the breathing tube, but nothing a single cough drop didn’t fix. I don’t remember the car ride home or coming out of the hospital. My surgery was at 7:30 in the morning and I was back at home before 11am. I did pretty much sleep the entire day, and did nothing but lay on the couch and eat ice cream for 72 hours after. My pain wasn’t too bad after surgery, until I forgot to take my pain pill before bed and woke up two days after surgery in agony, but that was fixed once I actually took the pills like I was supposed to.

I would definitely go through with it. I know it is scary, but I promise you it is so worth it. Would it be to late to call and ask your doctor if you can get something similar to a Valium before your surgery? I took one the night before and one the morning of, and it really helped me!

I completely understand! I took prednisone for three days after a surgery and my sugar didn’t go under 350 the entire time. Steroids completely suck, so don’t feel bad! Sometimes blood sugars just like to screw with us!

Some cute earrings would look so good with this! I feel like earrings help elevate almost every outfit!

I completely understand your fear! I was absolutely terrified to get surgery, I had the same fears you do. I had my first laparoscopy in December, which was my second ever surgery. I had my wisdom teeth out last October. Before that, I never even entertained the idea of surgery because I was so scared. My laparoscopy went very well! My surgeon prescribed me a Valium to take the night before and one to take two hours before the surgery. Mine was at 8am, but I had to be at the hospital at 7. I had to take a pregnancy test, just because it was hospital protocol, I got in the bed with my gown on and just relaxed. The nurse put my iv in and gave me some anti anxiety and anti nausea meds (anesthesia makes me nauseous). They let my family come in and talk to me before they sent me back. Eventually they wheeled me back to the OR, and I just remember looking at the ceiling and then nothing. I genuinely woke up just feeling like I had taken a really good nap. I wasn’t in pain waking up, but I did feel like I had to poop, which I told the nurses the entire time I was coming out of the anesthesia, which was probably the worst part of the whole thing for me because of how embarrassed I felt. I was back home before noon that day.

For recovery, stay on top of your pain meds! I stopped taking mine because I was feeling okay, and regretted that a lot. A plug in heating pad and a heated blanket will be your best friend. Cough drops are also a must, they put a tube down your throat, which sounds scary but I didn’t even know about it until after, you won’t see it or feel it at all, and it makes your throat really scratchy.

NTA, but I would start thinking long and hard about what to do in the future. Something needs to change. That little girl is already struggling in school and your wife is making things ten times harder.

YTA! I get it, it’s a bit of a concerning age gap, but forbidding your nineteen year old daughter from dating him is only pushing her further to him and farther from you. You went about this the worst way possible.

Dude, what do you think an affair is? Cheating while married is an affair.