• magnetosphere@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    What’s worse - taking diabetes medication that’s somewhat outdated, or taking no diabetes medication at all?

    I’m not a doctor, but I bet I know the answer.

      • zeppo@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Yes. Thank you. I have T1, and with T2 being ~20 times as common, I don’t think the difference will ever be understood by the public. I wish it would get a different name, though that wouldn’t lower the price of insulin, right.

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          5 days ago

          same here. If type 1’s dont take insulin they die, period. Symptom onset is fast and its not a pleasant or fast death. All the type1s rationing insulin are cooking their organs and in some stage of the process of dying, and they feel it happening. The only option is to not eat any food at all and hope you can make the process of dying stretch out a bit. But as soon as you eat, the food turns to glucose (sugar) in the blood, your body cant use that sugar without insulin and it acidifies in your blood and cooks you.

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            4 days ago

            Right. I starved even with food in T1 onset and then later got DKA, which was excruciating.

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        6 days ago

        yOu juSt hAve To cuT swEetS, maYBe tRY tHe CArniVorE DieT

        - them actually

        Other times they’ll just advise you to use honey, because they think that’s not sugar.