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This is a community for all types of diabetes. Come hang out and take comfort in the fact that there are others like you out there.

Rules:

  1. Follow the instance rules (see here).
  2. Be civil.
  3. Do not diagnose people and do not request diagnosis (i.e. "Do I have diabetes").
  4. Do not request or give medical advice.
  5. No advertising.
  6. Diabetes is not competitive, we're all in the same boat here.

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Whoops! Forgot to exclude my #nightscout containers from auto-upgrades, which means the database went down when MongoDB released version 7 yesterday. I was wondering (mas.to)
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Whoops! Forgot to exclude my #nightscout containers from auto-upgrades, which means the database went down when MongoDB released version 7 yesterday. I was wondering why my wife's phone wasn't receiving my blood sugar numbers. Just #selfhosted #diabetes things! ๐Ÿ˜…

Luckily, manually setting the Mongo container image to version 6 and re-deploying fixed it.

@diabetes

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Just started taking Ozempic (midwest.social)
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My Endo just started me on Ozempic. I'm a type 2, 42 years old and I've been in the low 7s for my A1C for the last 6 months with using metformin, Jardinace, glipizide, and moderate exercise and diet changes. I am about 30 pounds over weight as well and have been having a horrible time losing any weight at all.

Anyway, I'm starting at a 0.25mg dose for four weeks then moving to the therapeutic dose of 0.5mg after, and even now while starting the 0.25mg dose, I really have no desire to eat. It's like a switch was flipped. Before, I was thinking about what to eat next constantly, was basically food fixated, and now I couldn't care less. Maybe it's partly a placebo effect, but hopefully not.

Anyway, just wanted to share my starting experiences with Ozempic. I'll come back and update as I go along with this medication. Thanks for reading!

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Why DIY AID in 2023? (diyps.org)
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A patient was asked to debate a doctor on whether do-it-yourself automated insulin delivery is still needed now that DIY AID is becoming more commercially available.

Personally, I will always advocate for patient empowerment. It's my disease, and I should be able to treat or deal with it how I want.

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Covid pandemic linked to surge in child and teen diabetes (mas.to)
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I started @diabetes for all my diabetic friends. Come hang out! #diabetes #lemmy (mas.to)
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I started @diabetes for all my diabetic friends. Come hang out! #diabetes #lemmy

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What's your equipment? (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)
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Until Lemmy gets a flair system, I thought we could share our diabetes equipment in this thread.

My stuff for T1:

  • Dexcom G6
  • TSlim X2
  • Novolog
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[US] Is it normal for insurance to change preferred insulin in the middle of the year? (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)
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I just had to call my endo to change my insulin to Novolog because my insurance decided they like it better. This is after the same insurance switched me to Humalog late last year.

I'll never understand insurance companies.

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Is anyone using the Dexcom G7 yet? (www.dexcom.com)
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Just recently released in the US, but my pump (TSlim X2) doesn't work with it yet ๐Ÿ˜ญ.

Is anyone using it yet, and if so, how has it been compared to your previous CGM?