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There are several types of diabetes. It’s a disease that keeps your body from turning sugar into energy or fat so it floats around in your blood corroding your organs and fine blood vessels, and can outright kill you with shock if too much sugar builds up in your blood. (very simplified.)
Type 2 is the most common, this where you don’t produce enough insulin, the chemical that turns your sugar into power or fat storage. You have to both take care with your diet and constantly monitor your blood sugar, and you have to often take insulin daily to balance it. Some people have reversed type-2 with very rigorous diets and exercise, and some people at risk can avoid it altogether by keeping blood sugar low throughout their life, but if you have a predisposition to type-2, you may end up with the disease for life even if you do everything right.
Type 1 is where you body produces NO insulin of your own. Totally broken. This was typically a fairly certain and swift death-sentence before insulin was developed. People with type-1 are not people who have dietary problems or bad habits, they have organ failure which can be caused by a variety of things, usually genetics or other diseases.
These diseases effect all ages and all walks of life. Beware the next wave of propaganda that will depict diabetes sufferers as some kind of slobs who can’t take care of themselve and it’s their own fault for being sick. This is already how many people see diabetes. It doesn’t help with the fascist goals that often people of color and non-white ethnicities and poor people are particularly susceptible to diabetes.
Another complication that often gets left out is that there’s even a type of diabetes that has nothing to do with insulin or blood sugar, but vasopressin. It’s far more rare, but people with that won’t be helped with diet either, so it’s worth a mention.
Ozempic is getting a lot of hype and criticism as the big “weight loss drug” of the century, but it’s originally meant to help people like you who have insulin resistance. A doctor should be able to prescribe it under most plans far easier than if you were just trying to get it for weight loss alone. (you have to stay on it for extended time for it to really start working, and it will make you feel rather sick for the first couple weeks, but it goes away.)
I also hope you are getting actual medical care and prescriptions to things like slow-acting and fast-acting insulins, and drugs that help protect your heart and kidneys, organs that often fail from diabetes. Staying with a doctor’s plan even if it’s embarrassing or difficult will literally save your life.
If you don’t have insurance, apply for state help. If you don’t have that, move somewhere that does. It’s that serious.
It’s a massive hassle in life, but if you put the effort in you can live a long, full life with the disease. Get to know how carbohydrates work and start balancing your diet with more high-fiber foods, less processed foods and carbs like breads, rice or potatoes. Protein and vegetables are going to keep you healthy and alive. Daily walks are not going to help you lose weight by themselves, but they will help your body turn sugar into energy faster so that sugar doesn’t sit in your blood corroding your organs, eyes and blood vessels.
Absolutely. I am getting help since im just personally not able to keep up the required diet. It’s practically impossible in America it feels like. Every restaurant is off the table and little joys in life would be out of reach.
Thankfully I don’t need insulin, and after losing weight I’ve significantly decreased the amount of meds needed to keep my sugars normal, but just wanted to post to show people without diabetes that it’s a disease, not something solely caused by just being unhealthy. Being unhealthy just makes the symptoms of the disease worse
Very glad to hear that you’re working on keeping it under control. My spiel was for the sake of not just you, but anyone else reading this. I know it’s hard but don’t quit, particularly if you have people in your life who care about you.
I was horrified when I learned just how many people don’t even make an attempt to manage their diabetes, and the much larger swath who say they do, but are just half-assing it because yes, you are severely restricted on your activities, places you can go eat, family gatherings, etc. It’s a huge pain in the ass and most people don’t have the time or knowledge to modify their lives if they otherwise feel “normal.”
I have a friend of a family member I game with who is very overweight, she steals her father’s ozempic to “take hits off once in a while” like it’s a fucking vape pen. The father is bleeding through his skin and still won’t take his meds or stop ordering takeout. This kind of nihilistic ignorance isn’t uncommon at all.
Type 1 diabetics dont make any insulin at all. So as soon as you cut off their supply they start dying. 4 days should see them all gone. (I am type 1 myself)
Certain types and situations of diabetes can be effectively controlled with a low (usually very low; ketogenic) carb diet and careful weight management. It doesn’t apply to all or even most situations, which is why we use insulin.
Isn’t that not how diabetes works?
I’m an idiot about biology anything, let alone food and drugs, but I know that.
There are several types of diabetes. It’s a disease that keeps your body from turning sugar into energy or fat so it floats around in your blood corroding your organs and fine blood vessels, and can outright kill you with shock if too much sugar builds up in your blood. (very simplified.)
Type 2 is the most common, this where you don’t produce enough insulin, the chemical that turns your sugar into power or fat storage. You have to both take care with your diet and constantly monitor your blood sugar, and you have to often take insulin daily to balance it. Some people have reversed type-2 with very rigorous diets and exercise, and some people at risk can avoid it altogether by keeping blood sugar low throughout their life, but if you have a predisposition to type-2, you may end up with the disease for life even if you do everything right.
Type 1 is where you body produces NO insulin of your own. Totally broken. This was typically a fairly certain and swift death-sentence before insulin was developed. People with type-1 are not people who have dietary problems or bad habits, they have organ failure which can be caused by a variety of things, usually genetics or other diseases.
These diseases effect all ages and all walks of life. Beware the next wave of propaganda that will depict diabetes sufferers as some kind of slobs who can’t take care of themselve and it’s their own fault for being sick. This is already how many people see diabetes. It doesn’t help with the fascist goals that often people of color and non-white ethnicities and poor people are particularly susceptible to diabetes.
Another complication that often gets left out is that there’s even a type of diabetes that has nothing to do with insulin or blood sugar, but vasopressin. It’s far more rare, but people with that won’t be helped with diet either, so it’s worth a mention.
Basically now as a type 2 diabetic I cannot eat anything and I’m still at elevated sugars…
Weight loss and a super low carb diet would work… Maybe… But if I even fuck it up for a week my sugars will be sky high again
Ozempic is getting a lot of hype and criticism as the big “weight loss drug” of the century, but it’s originally meant to help people like you who have insulin resistance. A doctor should be able to prescribe it under most plans far easier than if you were just trying to get it for weight loss alone. (you have to stay on it for extended time for it to really start working, and it will make you feel rather sick for the first couple weeks, but it goes away.)
I also hope you are getting actual medical care and prescriptions to things like slow-acting and fast-acting insulins, and drugs that help protect your heart and kidneys, organs that often fail from diabetes. Staying with a doctor’s plan even if it’s embarrassing or difficult will literally save your life.
If you don’t have insurance, apply for state help. If you don’t have that, move somewhere that does. It’s that serious.
It’s a massive hassle in life, but if you put the effort in you can live a long, full life with the disease. Get to know how carbohydrates work and start balancing your diet with more high-fiber foods, less processed foods and carbs like breads, rice or potatoes. Protein and vegetables are going to keep you healthy and alive. Daily walks are not going to help you lose weight by themselves, but they will help your body turn sugar into energy faster so that sugar doesn’t sit in your blood corroding your organs, eyes and blood vessels.
Absolutely. I am getting help since im just personally not able to keep up the required diet. It’s practically impossible in America it feels like. Every restaurant is off the table and little joys in life would be out of reach.
Thankfully I don’t need insulin, and after losing weight I’ve significantly decreased the amount of meds needed to keep my sugars normal, but just wanted to post to show people without diabetes that it’s a disease, not something solely caused by just being unhealthy. Being unhealthy just makes the symptoms of the disease worse
Very glad to hear that you’re working on keeping it under control. My spiel was for the sake of not just you, but anyone else reading this. I know it’s hard but don’t quit, particularly if you have people in your life who care about you.
I was horrified when I learned just how many people don’t even make an attempt to manage their diabetes, and the much larger swath who say they do, but are just half-assing it because yes, you are severely restricted on your activities, places you can go eat, family gatherings, etc. It’s a huge pain in the ass and most people don’t have the time or knowledge to modify their lives if they otherwise feel “normal.”
I have a friend of a family member I game with who is very overweight, she steals her father’s ozempic to “take hits off once in a while” like it’s a fucking vape pen. The father is bleeding through his skin and still won’t take his meds or stop ordering takeout. This kind of nihilistic ignorance isn’t uncommon at all.
Type 1 diabetics dont make any insulin at all. So as soon as you cut off their supply they start dying. 4 days should see them all gone. (I am type 1 myself)
Certain types and situations of diabetes can be effectively controlled with a low (usually very low; ketogenic) carb diet and careful weight management. It doesn’t apply to all or even most situations, which is why we use insulin.
Also, vegetables have carbs, and you really, really should be eating a lot of vegetables for many reasons.