This post is from Laura, who is still processing a rotten diabetes week and could use a boost from the diabetes community. See below for her message: Hope you all are doing okay. It’s been a week plus extra over here. I’m okay. Tired. I think I’m finally emerging out of this cruel, bizarro week when practically everything in the…
It is supposed to be -20 degrees here in New England, which means that I refuse to leave my house until the cold snap passes along. To keep my mind from freezing, I’ve been combing through the diabetes online community posts (and the Internet in general) to see what’s new and to share what resonates. A Friday Six! It’s been…
I am no stranger to health care appointments. As a person with diabetes, I’m accustomed to making a bunch of important doctor appointments and then keeping them, mostly out of the fear of what will happen if I don’t go. Will my legs fall off if I don’t see my endocrinologist? Will my teeth fall out if I don’t visit…
I once was told I had the ‘betes,even though I ate my Wheaties.Not vitamins nor an apple each daycould keep this ‘betes far away.The ‘betes wants to run me down,and swap my joy for a big frown.So unfriendly when it tries and triesto threaten my legs! My kidneys! My eyes!It wants to kill me in my sleep.The price to live…
submitted by Cherise Shockley I’ve been using a GLP-1 and insulin to treat my diabetes for the past two years. My PBM informed me in a letter that the GLP-1 is not preferred but that Ozempic and Trulicity are. I phoned Dr. P (endo) and requested the Ozempic script. A few days later, I received a refusal letter because I…
Poem by Bethany Doak I am mountain-high strong fierce wild I am wind-burnt cheeks, icicle eyelashes, too high too high? I wander up up up but it’s—cannot breathe—high so I/we take the medicine more MORE too much! till I spin down drown fast rush hurry down don’t crash! hurry I will wilt, falter, spiral, droop when I get to the…
Every few years, my hypoglycemia symptoms morph. When I was really young, my biggest symptom was a numb mouth. Lips would start to tingle, and then the top lip would go fully numb, spreading to the inside of my mouth along the roof, then to the back of my molars. It happened in noticeable but lightning fast stages, the transition…