We’re doing it! Step closer to becoming a pilot🙂🤞 Just have to work on getting my lows up to less than 4% of time (4.9% now) which is a tad difficult with manual labour job

Sana released information on their first patient treated with gene-edited donor islet cells, that were transplanted without immunosuppression. It’s just one patient, and only at 4 weeks, but an allo transplant without immunosuppression should be acutely rejected, suggesting their approach could work. A long way to go to FDA approval and wide availability, but it’s another major milestone on the path to a functional cure. More data about the trial should be released in the coming weeks and months.

https://ir.sana.com/news-releases/news-release-details/sana-biotechnology-announces-positive-clinical-results-type-1

So this morning I woke up at 5:40 am, and I was like holy crap my blood sugar is 4 mmol, how is that even possible... For context, im on a pump and my nightly basal rate is pretty locked down so I typically go to bed and wake up within the same range. I checked the pump settings and at night I accidentally bolused 3 units of insulin instead of 3g of carb at 2 am... (For 3g of carb I'd be given 0.3 units of insulin), and I had no idea I did that and just went to sleep. 3 units of insulin would bring me down by 15 mmol and I was at 8 mmol when I made that mistake. Thank GOD insulin does NOT work when I'm asleep (I require so much more than when im awake) so I didn't plummet astronomically. Whew. Won't be making that mistake again

1 week at 100%.

Hello! I’ve been “officially” type 1 for about a year now from being 1.5. I just started school again to be an engineer and was wondering if anyone told their professors that they’re t1d and if so how did you go about it? Our disability office highly encourages me to tell my profs as does my mom. I was thinking of making a little note card w some information just in Casies. I have an Omnipod + Dexcom and my main concern if if my pod runs out or expires while in class and makes that annoying ass noise until I deactivate it or if Dex yells at me for going low (as we know it just gets louder). This quarter my teachers seem relaxed and don’t have a no food/drink policy that they’ve mentioned but in the future if they’re strict my school (disability department) can intervene if I don’t feel comfortable telling my profs or they refuse to let me have food in class.

I've had t1 over 20 years, currently 29 and have lived the majority of my life with it. I was diagnosed at Texas Children's and had an endocrinologist until I turned 26, but I've been living off Novolin R Walmart insulin for years now

I've gone through a lot of personal battles over the years, but my situations are improving, to the point that I'm acknowledging my horrible bloodsugars being the biggest problem in my life today. My new years resolution became a baby step in that direction, just getting in the habit of checking my sugar each day, adding in lantus also, but its very frustrating, I haven't managed to correct a bloodsugar without overcorrecting, I haven't managed to go a single day within reasonable numbers, and the lows can be so dangerous they make me want to give up on the effort, buts its not just something I can give up on figuring out, if I give up on I give up on myself. I don't want that. I even know the answer, obviously just check my sugars frequently enough to have reference I can adjust/build a proper insulin regimen around. I don't know why its become so difficult for me

Hi all,

How do you cope with burnout/cravings? All I want right now is a massive takeaway with all the things I used to have. I was diagnosed only last month, have been really healthy overall, counting carbs and managing blood sugars to the best of my ability but I’m just struggling tonight..

Maybe the best course of action is for me to just eat some food at home.

How do you guys manage this?

I’ve been on a pump for about a month now and everything has been great until yesterday when I think I got sick (Or I just felt weird) and my sugars WILL NOT COME DOWN! I’ve called my clinic and I’ve tried something new but something still isn’t working. It takes what seems like 5-8 corrections to get my sugar down and when I finally do get it down I need to eat again and then the cycle repeats. I’m mentally tired from this I just need some help.

Convinced that we're all doing it wrong, and all falling down the bigger pharma trap.

It would be nice.

I just got the new DiaTribe newsletter, and saw info about the recall here: https://diatribe.org/diabetes-technology/tech-watch-diabetes-tech-news?omhide=true&utm_source=diaTribe&utm_campaign=861f8bf202-learn_2025-01-07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_22467a8528-861f8bf202-157014324 (It's the last article in the newsletter. I've included the body below.)

Medtronic Recalls Insulin Pumps Due to Battery Issue Medtronic has issued a voluntary recall of MiniMed 600 or 700 series insulin pumps due to a battery issue that may occur when devices are dropped or receive a jarring impact.   Pumps dropped just once could provide a shorter-than-expected battery life, even after the battery is replaced. A damaged pump could fail to alert the user with the typical amount of battery life remaining, which could stop insulin delivery prematurely. If insulin delivery is stopped unexpectedly, hyperglycemia or diabetic ketoacidosis could result.  Users are advised to replace the battery as soon as the "low battery pump" alarm sounds. Medtronic also recommends that MiniMed pump users carry extra AA batteries with a full charge. If you’re experiencing significantly low battery life, contact Medtronic to see if a new pump is needed. The company said it would replace any pump experiencing the issue at no charge.  Customers in the U.S. can call the Medtronic support line 24 hours a day at 1-800-378-2292. Customers outside the U.S. should use the Medtronic international contacts page.

hear me out — i watched steel magnolias for the first time yesterday and (spoiler warning for a movie from 1989) was not prepared for the diabetic character to die. made me really thankful for the advances in medical care for diabetics, but also made me really sad for the rest of the day. are there any other movies y’all can think of off the top of your heads that have diabetic characters/sad diabetic tropes to know of, also, what do we think is the best cinematic representation of diabetes? hope everyone is having a great day:)

Hi all,

As the title says. I tend to start counting fat grams the same as carbohydrate grams once they are 10 or higher. So if I ate something with 40 grams of carbs, and 10 grams of fat, I would bolus for 50 on a dual-wave bolus (I'm on an insulin pump). My mum saw me do this earlier, and said that 10 grams of fat should just be ignored.

As far as I'm aware, fat both slows down the conversion of carbohydrates into glucose, and can cause temporary insulin resistance. Is this correct? Sometimes I feel like I don't understand the science of diabetes well enough.

Thanks :)

I've seen a couple of things about insulin response, but is there a specific reason for high protein spiking blood sugar? Is there a point where I should start bolusing for Protein as well as carbs?

Alright, you can skip to end if you dont wanna read the story of how I found out I had diabetes.

I was a completely normal human who got called in for a blood test one day (for suspected anaemia) and got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes instead. After that they found GAD positive antibodies so I was put on insulin.

The thing is, I eat such a low carb diet that I literally don't need it? I went back home to Nepal for a holiday and I needed it there (abt 6 units AM and 7ish PM) since the dumplings and rice are pretty high carb, but in the UK I legit just eat salad and chicken, even biscuits but I dont get high sugar.

Am I lucky? Is this the honeymoon phase? Im 20 years old if that helps. I wish it would stay like this forever lol. Only problem is that someeetimes I get lows without putting in any insulin, no idea why. Might make a seperate post for that.

Thanks for reading!

Tldr - I eat such a minima carb diet to where I dont need to inject any insulin and if I do I will go low. Is this potentially dangerous?

Anyone know how to fix this? I have the G6

Okay, no doctor advices I know, I just want to look into some supplements and ask my doctor about them, so: does anyone take anything that they find useful for their management, vitamins that they think shoul be looked into, anythingeven not t1d related or somethingyou would avoid cause it gives spikes? I ask because you never know! (Also everybody going crazy and ready to throw hands at me, I'm very positive and have a good relationship with my diabates but sometimes you never know, there may be something that people want to share)

Sometimes working out makes my bs spike- up to 15mmol sometimes.

Anyone remeber what level you should avoid working out because it is more damaging?

Hi, I’m wondering if any of you have travelled a lot. I saw a post somewhere talking about how they want to see the world before they settle down and I feel like I’d want to do that someday. It feels like though, that it would be really hard to jump from place to place with diabetes. From day to day managing blood sugar in a new environment with maybe less support (no friends or family for example) to making sure you have enough supplies and getting your prescription. It sounds like a nightmare! I’m on a pump and currently don’t go out much and my blood sugars are good for now but when I start going to events more it’s pretty hard to keep it steady. I went on holiday for just a few days and was wrecked from my sugars going on a rollercoaster. How would you manage?