How?
Granted everyone’s diabetes seems to be different, but how did 7 people eat themselves to death? Over the course of years?
IDK a friends niece has apparently been hospitalized more than one with sugars over 800mg/dl… apparently she’s just ignoring it.
I’m not doubting numbers… just morbidly curious.
And yeah, finger-stick meters suck too… how’s +-50 sound? Optimal being somewhere in the 80-140 range, 0 is basically dead… seizures while chewing off your own tongue. IIRC, the accuracy is allowed to get worse the further from optimal you get… oh and the U.S. didn’t even have a standard 20 years ago.
Had 2 Dexcom G6’s going at the same time a few months ago… that was eye opening. They were briefly over 100mg/dl apart.
It’s doable though, I fucked mine off for years… A1Cs routinely in the 11s even when I thought I was trying. But 10+ years of Dexcom/Tandem and my doctors have stopped pestering me :-)
I ran across Kuhn’s blog post about how he was diagnosed with diabetes just the other day on Mastodon. What a wild followup.
Don’t assume your CGM will always work perfectly. ALWAYS have a backup finger-prick glucometer. Source: I have a Dexcom G6 and used to use a Freestyle Libre.
i have been visiting that r/diabetes , from what ive seen those arnt perfect monitors to begin with.
None of them are perfect but you should always have at least 1 backup. I have several finger-prick monitors from my pre-CGM days and I fortunately can still feel when my sugar is low and can kinda feel it when it’s high.
