28M ran out of insulin in the afternoon, just waiting for my wife to get her paycheck so I could grab it before the pharmacy closed for the night, just for hot not to get payed. Wake up at 3am getting rid of my stomach acid. Called the ambulance and come to find out I’m well over 500 BG
Before anyone asks why didn’t I wait for my paycheck wellll I’m a stay at home father of 3 kids, 1yr, 2yr, and a 6 yr and home school. But the best part of the hospital is all the free ice chips omg so good🥹
Who else can agree

Found out at 9.6 about 3 years ago. Was put on 2000 mg Metformin. Drastically changed my lifestyle, diet and started working out. Then, metformin dose was reduced to 1000 then 500. Once I was at 5.6, I was out of meds just diet managed after that. Now back to 6.4. Still waiting to hear from my Doctor.

My girlfriend (23F) was diagnosed with T1D around 18. We’ve been dating for a few years, and I (24M) am extremely certain she is the one.

For the past few months, she’s been having a rough go of it with her levels, vision, stomach issues, and other health complications (allergies to gluten, dairy, arthritis, nausea..etc). I am trying the best I can to be a supportive boyfriend and help her with these struggles, but it’s been quite difficult. I’ve never had to deal with any health issues myself, so at times it feels a bit overwhelming.

This may come out wrong or this may not be the right sub to ask, but:

1: do health complications with T1D get worse overtime? I worry that 20 years down the line, many of the issues she is struggling with will get far worse (vision, arthritis, stomach issues). I’ve heard with poorly managed levels, side effects of T1D can become much more of a problem, and she’s not the most proactive about staying within her levels (ballparks a lot of her dosing, remains above 250 for very extended periods of time before dosing).

2: this is one extremely morbid…is life expectancy lower for people diagnosed with T1D? I’m most definitely proposing in a few years, and I want to get a sense of what our far future may look like.

3: if we have kids, will they most likely have t1d?

4: are there things I can do to be more helpful and be a better partner to her? I don’t want her to feel like she has to deal with health complications on her own.

Again, I realize this may come off super wrong, so I apologize to anyone offended!!

I'm 42M, 6'1" (185 cm), approximately 138 kg / 306 lb, and South Asian.

My latest HbA1c is around 6.7%.

I'm currently trying to understand how seriously I need to approach this and, more importantly, what a sustainable lifestyle change could look like.

My biggest goals are:

1. Lose a substantial amount of body fat.
2. Preserve/build muscle.
3. Improve insulin sensitivity and blood glucose control.
4. Get my HbA1c down substantially.
5. Eventually maintain a healthier weight and lifestyle without constantly dieting.

For those of you who have successfully improved your A1c, what made the biggest difference?

I'm particularly interested in:

• Amount of weight loss required before you noticed improvements
• Lower-carb vs moderate-carb diets
• Intermittent fasting/time-restricted eating
• Walking after meals
• Resistance training
• Cardio
• Protein intake
• Sleep/stress
• Medication alongside lifestyle changes
• Continuous glucose monitoring, if you've used one
• Changes to rice/roti/other South Asian foods

I'd especially love to hear from people who started with obesity and an A1c in the diabetic/prediabetic range and managed to substantially improve their numbers.

I'm not asking Reddit for a prescription or to replace my doctor. I'm looking for people's real-world experiences with what worked, what didn't, and what they wish they'd done earlier.

What made the biggest difference for you?

Was diagnosed just over four years ago at 43 type 1.5 need two insulin’s minimum four times a day. Went through the normal depression that any type of life change can bring on. About a year ago I started running, at first just a mile in the morning. Over time that got easier and the distance added up and I wanted to find out what I was capable of. What I have now learned is that I am stronger than I’ve ever been and that diabetes will not stop me or slow me down.

To anyone newly diagnosed and feel down like life will never be the same. You are stronger than you think you are and you are only limited by your imagination and what you are willing to try.

Always forward, and best of luck.

I’m one of the people who are aware of the date they were diagnosed with Diabetes and it kind of is having a positive and negative effect on me.

Something about resilience or survival against a sense of dread Vs a horrible reminder of the effects this disease can have and blah blah blah.

What opinions do others have about their own diaversaries?

so I’ve accidentally stockpiled quite a lot of Dexcom G6s , they’re all expired and I don’t have any of the transmitter pods so they’re just collecting dust and I don’t know what to do with them

Hello everyone,

I am 41, and have diabetes on both sides of the family. Lately, (a month roughly) I have been needing to drink far more liquid than normal, needing very frequent trips to urinate and losing weight all of a sudden.

I am waiting for the virtual consultation with the doctor to order the blood work.

Not really sure how to feel about things, just wanted to get it out in the open I guess?

After going into nine weeks of Mounjaro 2.5mg I am happy to report my A1c went from 10.2 to 5.5 ❗️❕❗️❕❗️❕❗️❕

I’m sooooo happy

Now I just have to work on getting my appetite back and putting back the weight that it took off that I could not afford to lose🤦🏻‍♀️.

My endocrinologist and family practice nurse practitioner labeled me as a superduper responder to this medication. It’s literally been a game changer for me. I hope and pray it helps many other people that are on it.🙏🏻

Okay, I don't want to really make this a really long story, but basically I got fat after the military from a mix of mental health and injuries.

30 days ago, I felt "not right" and immediately started losing weight, eating clean, and got a wide-screen blood test done. I'm down 10 kg so far.

The blood tests came back, and my doctor, who is new, said that I'm pre-diabetic.

He was generally... kind of odd. He was like, "You need to seriously lose weight and make lifestyle changes," and I said, "I know. I started 10 days ago," and literally showed him my Garmin Connect showing my weight and body fat were going down.

He seemed to ignore this and more or less said, "You look too fat to be losing weight," and told me to take it seriously.

I ignored this and let him continue, but it's the food advice that I found weird.

He didn't tell me an actual number for my HbA1c, but he's essentially saying I can't eat anything.

Of the list of things he said I can't eat, this includes:

• Breads (even wholegrain or sugarless)
• Rice (any)
• Potato (any)
• Beets
• Sweet potato
• Fruit
• Berries
• Any store-made sauces?
• Pasta (white or wholegrain)
• Pretty much any snack foods that aren't jerky, and to check the sugar content
• Nuts
• Coke Zero (for some reason)

I mean, it goes on and on like this.

He essentially said I need to eat Greek yogurt for breakfast, beans and tuna for lunch, and steamed chicken breast and broccoli for dinner for at least a year, and not to deviate from this.

I mean, I'm taking this seriously, but he was acting like if I ate a Snickers I'd instantly become diabetic. He even started getting rude when I asked something like, "So I can't eat fruit? At all? So not even, like, add a banana to my yogurt?"

And he responded:

"By the look of you, I can tell you obviously love your food, but what's more important: living, or not eating whatever you feel like? You got into this mess. Only you can get out of it."

The thing is... like, I know about nutrition, and I did some med school (dropped out and joined the military after my fiancée died). I'll admit I'm not an expert in diabetes, but my understanding of where I am right now is that eating an apple once a day, or eating a Snickers every other day, isn't going to send me over the edge.

He's just made me super paranoid to eat anything now. I've not actually eaten anything for the past two days. I'm that scared right now. The way he words things makes it sound like if I eat anything, I'm going to instantly die.

Is he being dramatic, or am I not taking this seriously enough?

Been doing Uber on and off while between jobs and I swear my numbers get strange on days I drive a lot. Like I will eat something reasonable, check a couple hours later and it is higher than I expected, and the only variable I can think of is that I sat in the car for four or five hours barely moving. No real stress, nothing unusual foodwise. I manage type 2 through lifestyle stuff, no meds right now, so I pay attention to patterns pretty closely. Walking even 20 minutes after eating makes a noticeable difference for me, fwiw. But on drive days I obviously can't do that between trips and I wonder if the inactivity just stacks up over the course of the day

Curious if anyone else who does gig work or desk work has noticed this. Do you try to sneak in movement during gaps or does it not matter much once you are already past that postmeal window? I have been experimenting with parking farther away or walking during long waits at the airport queue, but no idea if that is actually doing anything meaningful yet. YMMV obviously depending on how your body responds, but just wanted to see if this is a pattern other people have mapped out. What did you find actually helped?

In May, 2026 my A1C was 11. I had to go to the ER and they have me a few units of insulin for 400 blood sugar. Went for a follow-up last week and my A1c was down to 6. Now I know it still needs improving, but I was excited to see my hard work helping the numbers go in the right direction!

I’m a male who just switched to monjuaro after having having uncontrolled diabetes basically my whole life (A1c was a 13 then a 10 then a 9 and always hovered at an 8-8.5 where now my Dexcom says it’s a 6.9-7)

I have had a yeast infection for about 2-3 weeks currently which has finally now started to go away.

I wanted to hear anybody’s thoughts on the topic as it was horrible. The area burned constantly when I peed and just stationary.

My wife thinks it’s all the extra glucose I’m peeing out In combination of coming off the farixga I was taking as that also always caused me to go to the bathroom a lot.

I have never in my life lost a phone or my pump until last Saturday. I was distracted when waiting for the metro and forgot my diabetes bag with my insulin, pod, test strips etc and most importantly my Omnipod 5 controller on a bench at the metro station.

I panicked when I realized 2 hours later that I didn't have my bag and immidately went back to the metro station. The bag was there, it had been returned to the ticket booth BUT my Omnipod 5 controller was missing! It was in a case with a sticker that said Type 1 Diabetes Medical device but the thief had taken the controller out of the case and removed the sticker with the serial number and left it along with the case. What is wrong with people??!!! What is a random person going to do with an insulin pump?

I called Omnipod support which was incredible and sent me a one time replacement, though it will be out of warranty. I immediately ordered a tracker that I will attach to let me know if the pump is out of range and I can track where it is.

Have you ever lost or broken a pump? This was truly a terrifying experience, not recommended.

Might repost this in other places, but since I'm T2DM and using Ozempic + Metformin for managing that and trying to lose weight, wanted to put it here. See if anyone else has had this problem.

I was on Ozempic a couple years back when I was first diagnosed. It was fine, it did its job, and my sugars were under control. It did kind of affect my appetite a little bit, but I didn't experience any other side effects in my digestive system.

Well, after those years there's been some weight gain and actually-pretty-good-but-could-be-better sugar numbers, so I'm back on it. The exact same medicine, the exact same .25 dose, been going for about 4 weeks now and things are VERY different than before.

First couple weeks were business as usual but this past week has developed into a 'strong situation'. The only thing I'm able to comfortably eat is weak egg drop soup, which is basically just hot water, egg, and salt. Every other food in any quantity gives me MASSIVE acid reflux and I'm burping constantly.

I drink water, then tea and coffee. Those aren't in copious amounts but a few cups throughout the day. This makes a lot of the problems worse, but I refuse to compromise my brewed beverages. I don't drink, I don't smoke, all I have is my caffeinated broth please understand.

But normally I would do a little baking soda to help the reflux but I'm worried this will make the 'slow digestion' even worse by inhibiting the stomach acid. And things are VERY slow. And a few days behind schedule.

Like I said, I've been on it before but I've never experienced it like this. So if anyone has gone through this, or can tell me when this evens out, or just kind of sprinkle a little comradery/advice into my beggar's cup I'd really appreciate it. Thank you in advance.

My brother, my mom, and I all have type 2. Mom is in her seventies and ridiculously stubborn. She also hates needles. Which is a problem because testing her blood sugar is something she refuses to do (the anticipation, the pain, etc), but insulin needles are so tiny that they don't bother her.

So she's shooting herself up with insulin based on vibes and then not recognizing when she's low. My brother (who is an EMT) saw her over the weekend, and she was slurring, physically clumsy, and forgetting what she was saying five seconds after she said it. He got some sugar into her and she bounced back but he said he was about thirty seconds from calling an ambulance. If he hadn't been there, I'm not sure I would have a mom right now. Her husband is useless; she could be gushing fountains of blood next to him, and as long as it didn't interrupt his golf or war movie, he'd never notice until dinner was late.

My brother and I both live five minutes from each other, but an hour from her, so it's not like we can constantly check up on her.

Can I get some horror stories, please? Because clearly her two kids telling her that injecting insulin without checking her sugar first is idiotic and going to get her killed isn't working.

my boyfriends blood sugar gets in the 500s just from drinking coffee... (edit: he has type 2 diabetes) he won't stop eating unhealthy no matter what i tell him but i can't make decisions for him 🙏🏻 he doesn't like beans or any of the other foods he's supposed to be eating to keep his blood sugar under 300 im worried.

what are some risks from him choosing to be like this? he knows it's bad but he doesn't want medication and he rarely lets me check his blood sugar cause every time i do it's 400+. some symptoms i notice is he's always tired. he can sleep all day and still be tired, he always has blisters in between his toes and never leaves them alone so it's like a constant fungus battle, feet never healing 😭😭 i wanna help him but idk what to say anymore he's been like this since ive known him, we met in 2020. im just worried for his health

edit: i forgot to mention here that he's 30, he's had diabetes since he was a kid and he also can't fully extend his right arm without being in extreme pain, idk if that's nerve damage from the diabetes but his arms been like that for months now. also the commenters telling me to leave im actually working on it, i need an income and need to figure out how to be stable on my own, ive been sheltered my whole life so i have no clue on how to survive without depending on someone and i had the unfortunate experience of ending up with someone like this. im trying but im also not heartless, i care too much about people in my life and its probably because im used to having nobody, but im not staying because i want to anymore. im alone in a state where i know nobody and im trying to figure out what to do to get on my own feet finally. i know hes choosing this, i know i cant do anything about it, i already waved the white flag but i figured this post would be somewhat helpful for him in the meantime because i do care. not enough to endure this forever though, im tired and ill get out of here as soon as i can

I was diagnosed with gestational in 2019 when I was pregnant with my son that progressed into type 2 after giving birth and it’s just not gone away. I was wildly unmanaged in the 600s on a daily basis when I finally got on the dexcom and omnipod and shortly after mounjaro. My lord what a difference. I went from the 600s daily to 110s, 200 ui of short acting insulin daily to not needing insulin AT ALL, dropped 30 lbs and it was all because of the mounjaro. Well my insurance decided that rather than keep paying for the mounjaro they were kicking me off and they made me try everything else under the sun. My insurance stopped covering it and my current rx ran out so my sugars spiked again, I gained weight, and now I’m wildly unmanaged again no matter what I do. So it began, the fight for the miracle drug that helped so much, however they wanted ozempic first but at the highest dose for 90 days so we had to taper then be there for 3 months so that was a 6 month trial, did absolutely nothing to touch my blood sugar. 6 months my dr fought my insurance trying to get any answers, still nothing so we moved to trulicity which they also want for 90 days at the highest dose which again means another 6 long months of trial, which so far has also done nothing to my blood sugars. I don’t understand why my insurance, who are not doctors, gets to decide that the drug that had me off of every other medicine is now no longer an option. I’m so beyond frustrated and it’s so depressing to think that I have to go through another 6 months of high blood sugars because nothing is working. Like why should I even bother trying to get it under control if I can’t have the tools necessary? I was doing so good and now I feel so sick.

Sorry for the verbal vomit, I’m just so exhausted and needed to rant to anyone other than my family because they don’t understand. Thanks for listening.

I recently started Mojarro and I’m really struggling to eat salads because every salad dressing tastes disgusting.
Has anyone found a salad dressing that works for them while taking Mojarro because so far anything creamy is just gross to me. And I’m trying to not do the salad dressings with a ton of sugar.

Thoughts?

First time posting, but figured I'd share my story. In January this year, started having signs of t2d. Honestly the episode of Scrubs where Turk finds out he has it is what pushed me to go get checked by my doctor, plus I was sick of having to pee every 45-60 minutes.

Sure enough, I had an A1C of 10. I wasn't shocked, but definitely disappointed. I'm 33, woman, and was pretty sure before all this that I have PCOS/PMOS, which I learned later can exacerbate diabetes as it can make you resistant to insulin. Luckily my doc decided to just try putting me on oral medications and a GLP1. At my heaviest, I was 275, ate like crap and in an office job.

After my diagnosis, I decided to pull myself together. Met with my dietician, pharmacist, confirmed I have PCOS/PMOS, did my own research, and immediately changed my diet. I didn't cut out everything I was eating, mostly just portion control, pairing all my carbs with protein, and most importantly cutting out sugared drinks. The other thing I did was I started walking. I now walk at least 1 mile almost every day, even got myself a walking pad. I look forward to my walks now whereas I used to dread them. And I was religious about checking my blood sugars 4+ times a day.

In May, I had my first check in with my doctor since my diagnosis. When she looked at my A1C, her eyes got big and she literally stuttered. I'd cut my A1C nearly in half! I was 5.8! She said to keep doing whatever I was doing.

Went in two weeks ago for my next check up, and my A1C was 5.1. My doctor said that while I will always technically be diabetic, she feels strongly I can manage it without medications. I'm still on them, but cut them in half now. Don't have to read blood nearly as often, but I still check at least twice a day. I've learned excellent eating habits and, more importantly, I've learned to listen to my body when I'm eating and my stomach is satisfied. Since last October, I've lost 70 pounds. I'm barely over 200 at this point. I haven't weighed this little in at least 10 years, and my body is certainly stronger than it's ever been (especially my legs lol).

It's been hard to feel proud of myself for doing something like this, because my stupid low self esteem tells me I should have never let myself get there in the first place. Unfortunately, I never learned how to have a healthy relationship with food when I was a kid, and my genetics are also not in my favor (both parents have it). But through therapy and talking with my sister who is a health care worker and says that most people never get this serious about their health so quickly, I've learned to take pride in myself for what I've done.

It hasn't been the easiest journey, but I think it has also been one of the most fulfilling. I've learned to trust my body in so many ways, I've grown more confident in myself. The message I want anyone who has read this far is that, cliche as it sounds, if I can do it, anyone can.

Edit: I realize now the title is incorrect, I've gone into remission, not reversed it. I'll always have this, but I've proven I'm stronger than it. Thanks for those who pointed it out

Hey everyone, I'just found im prediabetic and my wife has diabetes as well and doctor told her she is going to have to use insulin if things don't improve , she just started ozempic and got really sick and doesn't want to continue using it,

But my question is, we dont know how to eat , we look at the label and try to select things with low sugar but that's about all we know, I know this may sound stupid but no one has shown us how to eat properly

looking for some gidence if anyone can help, we don't like fish tho and cilantro

We're also time challenged so quick meal and snack ideas please and thank you