Tag: diabetes

It’s been quite a while since I wore anything over like a 1" heel, anyway, because musculoskeletal problems. I never did wear particularly high heels that regularly.

But, I do find myself resenting not really having that option anymore without maybe doing myself some serious injury, thanks to diabetic foot bullshit.

(Similar with never reasonably being able to walk around barefoot anymore, which is something I’m a lot more likely to want to do in the first place 😒)

The “small” quality of life things can really pile up and get overwhelming sometimes.

mamoru:

kraftykrak3n:

mamoru:

i am so tired of peeing. i drink the water, which i apparently need to live or something, then i have to go put the water somewhere else five minutes later. i drink the water, i go to a place to un-drink the water, i wash my hands, i leave, then i have to drink more water. guess where that water ends up? not in me! i give the water to my body and like a child it tosses it out and demands more. all hours of the day all hours of the night no matter what i am doing my life is interrupted by piss and this is bullshit

This sounds like it was written by a powerful being that is trapped in a human vessel and keeps having their plans thwarted by bathroom breaks. 

You know too much.

aphilologicalbatman:

maefromjanuary:

bandagedhand:

justsomeantifas:

justsomeantifas:

doctors: GOOD NEWS EVERYONE we have found a treatment for diabetes it’s called insulin! people won’t die from this illness anymore if we just give them insulin isn’t this great news?

united states of america: how about we make it so poor people have either limited to zero access to this insulin?

doctors: but don’t we have enough resources to provide for everyone in need of such a medication?

the united states of america: yes!

doctors: isn’t that genocide

united states of america: YES

united states of america fist pumping and chanting ‘U’ ‘S’ ‘A’:

capitalism is genocide

i usually don’t add to posts i reblog but as a type 1 diabetic this makes me so fucking angry.

i have an insulin pump. each time i change the port (basically what connects it to my body, similar to an iv) i use about a third of a bottle refilling the cartridge. i change it every three days, so one single, 10ml bottle of insulin lasts me around nine days.

i had to look this up because my parents don’t like to tell me how much my supplies cost. (for reasons like this. i feel guilty for my t1d. i shouldn’t have to feel guilty about an autoimmune disorder i was born with.)

you know how much it is for that one, single 10ml bottle of insulin, for those without any insurance?

$328.

for nine days.

$328 for a nine days supply of the medicine that i literally need to survive. the medicine that once i become an adult and have to take care of myself, i will have to pay for. the medicine that unless, by some miracle, they find a cure, i will need to take for the rest of my life. $328 for nine days of my life.

Near and dear to my non functional pancreas 

Fam, I am also type 1 diabetic. I also use a pump. I am preparing to go do fieldwork in Europe for nine months and insulin is perishable. I use a brand that’s available in Europe. The same vial that costs $300+ in the US without insurance costs €22 ($25.60) in one country and $10-15 in the other. Not with insurance! Cash. Roll up to the pharmacy and explain that you have diabetes cash price.

It doesn’t have to be like this. The US needs to start negotiating better pharmaceutical prices like every other country. Get some socialism up in this bitch.

lord-kitschener:

bandagedhand:

justsomeantifas:

justsomeantifas:

doctors: GOOD NEWS EVERYONE we have found a treatment for diabetes it’s called insulin! people won’t die from this illness anymore if we just give them insulin isn’t this great news?

united states of america: how about we make it so poor people have either limited to zero access to this insulin?

doctors: but don’t we have enough resources to provide for everyone in need of such a medication?

the united states of america: yes!

doctors: isn’t that genocide

united states of america: YES

united states of america fist pumping and chanting ‘U’ ‘S’ ‘A’:

capitalism is genocide

i usually don’t add to posts i reblog but as a type 1 diabetic this makes me so fucking angry.

i have an insulin pump. each time i change the port (basically what connects it to my body, similar to an iv) i use about a third of a bottle refilling the cartridge. i change it every three days, so one single, 10ml bottle of insulin lasts me around nine days.

i had to look this up because my parents don’t like to tell me how much my supplies cost. (for reasons like this. i feel guilty for my t1d. i shouldn’t have to feel guilty about an autoimmune disorder i was born with.)

you know how much it is for that one, single 10ml bottle of insulin, for those without any insurance?

$328.

for nine days.

$328 for a nine days supply of the medicine that i literally need to survive. the medicine that once i become an adult and have to take care of myself, i will have to pay for. the medicine that unless, by some miracle, they find a cure, i will need to take for the rest of my life. $328 for nine days of my life.

Insulin’s High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing

And, as came up before? It used to be a cheap treatment, until very recently. (And is still much cheaper in other parts of the world, where older effective types of insulin are still available.)

From an article linked there:

[Beyond the steep price increases starting with analogue insulins being introduced in the ‘90s:]

A medical professor who has tracked the cost of insulin over the years says that a one-month supply of a popular version that cost $45 wholesale in 2001 cost $1,447 14 years later, an increase of almost 3,000%. That’s the wholesale price, not the retail price that an uninsured patient would pay.

Insulin’s High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing

clatterbane:

clatterbane:

This is also the only time I can remember that a virus is making my asthma flare up, without being super snotty to help trigger it. Weird.

It took me a while to even put together that it’s probably this virus doing it. Guessing it’s not coincidental, though.

I’m also getting a weird rash on my stomach now 🤔 It’s been itching for a while, but I just noticed that a blistery rash is coming up. (Only there so far. *fingers crossed*)

I’m really good at breaking out, but something else that doesn’t seem entirely coincidental.

Time for some hydrocortisone cream and some sleep, I think.

I don’t want to come across as whining excessively. But, I really don’t like getting Muggle sick on top of the existing shit. Not least because it usually fucks up my blood sugar for weeks.