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Bristlecone

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  • Type-2 Diabetics of Lemmy: What were some of your symptoms that you only realized after your diagnosis were symptoms of diabetes?

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  • It is definitely a lot of management, but it may be the disease. I see that is most preventable but also causes the most problems for people in the hospital when not controlled well. Our society does suck that way, but if you can do anything to stick to whole foods like fruit and cook your own meals without added sugar or salt, it can go a long way and sometimes save you money, though I do recognize that cheap as hell, fast food is the cheapest way to eat these days. It is also poison and I think you would do well to steer clear of it as often as humanly possible ❤️ most especially soda, even the sugar-free ones aren't great, especially for diabetics as they can trick your body into releasing insulin and it's still taxing for that system in a diabetic. You got this I believe in you!

  • Type-2 Diabetics of Lemmy: What were some of your symptoms that you only realized after your diagnosis were symptoms of diabetes?

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  • If you are stressed about it, I would recommend possibly getting a glucose monitor for your own mental health. You can check it more frequently and see what your glucose does before and after meals, that can give you some more information to go off of if you are trying to get your doctor to order specific tests. I imagine if you asked him he would order an A1C test though! They are simple and quick, and as the other person said, they give you a good idea of how well your blood sugar is controlled over the course of several months. It's really the way they diagnose diabetes in the first place generally. Activity and diet control are the number one ways to stay out of diabetes, however. Some people's genetics are so tilted towards diabetes that they will enter it eventually regardless of how they eat, but that's a pretty rare case. If you are really able to keep yourself in shape and control your diet for calories and carbohydrates and fiber, your chances are become so slim that I doubt your doctor would worry about it much anymore. I know that's a difficult thing to do though, so as others have said, frequency of urination is often one, especially at night, neuropathic tingling in your toes, slowly healing wounds, fatigue. These are often among the first symptoms, but in many cases people don't catch it until they enter what is called DKA or ketoacidosis, this is the major short-term risk of both diabetes, it is a separate production your body switches to when it can't process carbohydrates and it produces an acid that your blood won't get rid of fast enough, these people have to go to the hospital and stay usually a couple days qqqto get out of it. If you are already tracking it with your doctor, and checking your blood sugars, then you are ahead of the game! There is no real indicator besides your blood sugar and your a1c, and then physiological symptoms you may notice. Even if you do go into diabetes at this stage in your life, IF you are doing the other things I mentioned, and tracking your blood sugar, it would most likely be a an autoimmune-induced late onset type 1 diabetes. Even if that were the case with modern devices like CGM or sometimes even cgm and insulin pump combos. Your health can remain basically the same even after that kind of diagnosis! At this stage in our science, both types of diabetes are completely manageable if you are willing to be VERY compliant with your regiment. The bad parts of diabetes always come from specifically uncontrolled diabetes. The issue is that the molecule of glucose is large and can cause damage in the bloodstream, so when that level gets out of control, those molecules can clump and affect your tiny blood vessels. That is where the worst things come from, general organ damage including eyes and lack of circulation to the smaller ends of your extremities, usually your toes first. There is ALMOST no actual risk to having diabetes if you control it really well, you can essentially have full-blown type 1 diabetes with no insulin producing cells remaining and if you are tracking it well enough and good enough about your diet and exercise and medicine you can live a completely normal life and it won't even shorten your lifespan significantly. That's the hard part for people though. Having really good control because it's a pain in the butt. Source: I'm an ICU nurse

  • How do y'all feel joy without alcohol or weed?

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  • What the fuck?

  • People dont believe protesting works if they will only do it on their day off.

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  • Nah man, you are just engaging in free boot licking propaganda for absolutely no reason. World is what you frame it to be, and you sound like you're on the side of sociopaths here, trying to frame your way out of your own shitty ass behavior and/or fatalism

  • Some people just can't take a hint

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  • Why do cats look so much like Ron perlman?

  • Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?

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  • RN here, it's because your body has a more difficult time accessing the sugars in fruit form. They are wrapped up in multiple types of fiber which add bulk to your digestive system and serve as kind of a shield for your body to less easily access the sugar. The juice is essentially just the sugar with all the fiber strained out, has others have said this causes a situation where you can drink the calories from like 18 oranges in 45 seconds, and your body can access it immediately and easily. This is also why whole fruit is actually a good thing for diabetics because the glycemic index is actually pretty low.

  • Daily Prophet

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  • Fuck JK Rowling

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  • First off placement is HORRENDOUS. That isn't the deltoid yo. Second: as others have said GET HELP

  • People whose parents have become fascist, how are you dealing with it?

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  • Same, and I fucking hate it

  • How to kill a child

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  • I don't know why but "dumping core" was a really funny way for this to end

  • Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?"

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  • Because conservatives are stupid

  • What artist have you recently started really listening to?

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  • Black Pumas

  • Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?

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  • More and more I think it's this one. A lot of people have just convinced themselves that nobody's perfect so it's okay for them to be a massive piece of shit, too. There's a lot of people who are not trying to grow or improve

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    We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place.

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  • Maybe not a court provable thing, but the takeaway here is that conservatives specifically are willing to give this man infinite benefit of the doubt, to a level never seen before. Even if we can't throw his disgusting rapist ass in jail, he should 100% not be allowed to be president, much less actually succeed in that effort. It's sick and fuckin weird. If you look over all the actual criminal and civil convictions, along with general aggregate proof, additionally the proof of just being a small, bigoted, racist, narcissistic POS, and stack on top of alllll that these other general allegations, the man is clearly an unforgivablly worthless sack of shit that no reasonable person could possibly look up to. That's why true chump supporters are all either completely fooled by disinformation they CHOOSE to believe over all else, or "ends justify means" types who are lying to not look like pieces of shit themselves and live in a state of irrational fear, or straight up supportive of hate directly i.e. Nazis.

  • What are your thoughts on giving money to beggars?

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  • I don't like giving money to the homeless, that's why every month I make some grab bags, usually five or six because we have a few spots where people panhandle in my city. I based the grab bags off the weather, sometimes a cheap hat or shirt or sandals in the summer, and in the winter things like beanies scarves or gloves. Then throw some plant-based protein bars in there maybe a little candy, You will definitely want things that won't spoil in the heat of the car. Then a couple self-care items like some travel toothpaste and toothbrushes, chapstick gum that sort of thing.

  • The lifehack to enjoy lemmy fully!1!1!1!0

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  • This. So many left-leaning folks that I've talked to basically have this attitude, and present it to me like they are winning at life.

  • They're Making The Switch

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  • Micro-flaccid shit holes

  • They're Making The Switch

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  • Wow! Is that a gaming specific distro?

  • They're Making The Switch

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  • I recently did, and it's the best thing ever! I should have done this ages ago. I went with Fedora plasma on my old laptop! ❤️ I can see how basically any distro is going to be fantastic coming from either of the other choices tho

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Bristlecone @lemmy.world

    I have an Asus laptop from 2007