When do you celebrate a diaversary when you've been diagnosed three times
Apr. 20th, 2025 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
barbiejedi( GOOD NEWS: I FAILED SOME TESTS )
Anyway, over Spring Break I went to see a diabetes educator who does basically all the education for insulin pumps-- my mom has been seeing this same educator for years, maybe decades? And probably my grandmother saw her too, but I'm not about to text my mom this late at night to check. We went over a handful of options, and decided I would get the same kind of insulin pump my mom has, the Medtronic 780, because it fits my management style and my general treatment goals. Since dropping the glipizide, I've also upped my long-acting insulin and I have a scale and ratio to calculate how many units of insulin I should take at meals. All of that plus the DE telling me I should be taking my insulin 15-20 minutes before eating (whereas before I'd take it right as I sat down, or after I finished a meal), I've actually doubled my time in range? So that's fucking amazing.
idk. I'm just. I was first diagnosed with diabetes and started insulin 7 years ago, but it was always the kind of diabetes that doctors expect to resolve itself and go away (gestational, T2), and I knew I was going to end up a Type 1 and that I needed to be managed like one, and it's just nice to finally be at that point on my journey.
Still not sure how to count it exactly, though. Do I say I've been diabetic since 2018 (gestational), 2020 (T2 + endo) or 2025 (T1 + pump)? I'm probably going to go with 2018, just because that's when it all Got Real, and even when my diagnoses kept changing, I never really stopped being diabetic, you know?
But yeah. Happy to have some good answers, finally.
Anyway, over Spring Break I went to see a diabetes educator who does basically all the education for insulin pumps-- my mom has been seeing this same educator for years, maybe decades? And probably my grandmother saw her too, but I'm not about to text my mom this late at night to check. We went over a handful of options, and decided I would get the same kind of insulin pump my mom has, the Medtronic 780, because it fits my management style and my general treatment goals. Since dropping the glipizide, I've also upped my long-acting insulin and I have a scale and ratio to calculate how many units of insulin I should take at meals. All of that plus the DE telling me I should be taking my insulin 15-20 minutes before eating (whereas before I'd take it right as I sat down, or after I finished a meal), I've actually doubled my time in range? So that's fucking amazing.
idk. I'm just. I was first diagnosed with diabetes and started insulin 7 years ago, but it was always the kind of diabetes that doctors expect to resolve itself and go away (gestational, T2), and I knew I was going to end up a Type 1 and that I needed to be managed like one, and it's just nice to finally be at that point on my journey.
Still not sure how to count it exactly, though. Do I say I've been diabetic since 2018 (gestational), 2020 (T2 + endo) or 2025 (T1 + pump)? I'm probably going to go with 2018, just because that's when it all Got Real, and even when my diagnoses kept changing, I never really stopped being diabetic, you know?
But yeah. Happy to have some good answers, finally.
