T1D Jgroce
@jgroce.bsky.social
T1D since 1980, I'm just here to talk to T1D people.
This is true, but one of the nicest features of a "men's" public/business restroom is the urinal. It is one of the most under stated inventions in the world.
It is for sure one thing I miss in the gender neutral bathroom.
It is for sure one thing I miss in the gender neutral bathroom.
November 23, 2024 at 10:24 PM
This is true, but one of the nicest features of a "men's" public/business restroom is the urinal. It is one of the most under stated inventions in the world.
It is for sure one thing I miss in the gender neutral bathroom.
It is for sure one thing I miss in the gender neutral bathroom.
But tax payers give them billions to research, so yeah why is research so expensive?
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds biomedical research and development (R&D) that contributes to drug development. In 2021, the NIH's budget was $43 billion"
They still don't know what causes it. 🤣
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds biomedical research and development (R&D) that contributes to drug development. In 2021, the NIH's budget was $43 billion"
They still don't know what causes it. 🤣
November 21, 2024 at 3:27 AM
But tax payers give them billions to research, so yeah why is research so expensive?
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds biomedical research and development (R&D) that contributes to drug development. In 2021, the NIH's budget was $43 billion"
They still don't know what causes it. 🤣
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds biomedical research and development (R&D) that contributes to drug development. In 2021, the NIH's budget was $43 billion"
They still don't know what causes it. 🤣
It is actually grown from genetically altered bacteria or yeast.
It is natural, all mammals produce insulin. Before the analogs and rDNA insulins they literally harvested insulin from pig and cow pancreases. AKA animal sourced.
IDK doesn't make sense to me why it cost so much more than penicillin
It is natural, all mammals produce insulin. Before the analogs and rDNA insulins they literally harvested insulin from pig and cow pancreases. AKA animal sourced.
IDK doesn't make sense to me why it cost so much more than penicillin
November 21, 2024 at 2:10 AM
It is actually grown from genetically altered bacteria or yeast.
It is natural, all mammals produce insulin. Before the analogs and rDNA insulins they literally harvested insulin from pig and cow pancreases. AKA animal sourced.
IDK doesn't make sense to me why it cost so much more than penicillin
It is natural, all mammals produce insulin. Before the analogs and rDNA insulins they literally harvested insulin from pig and cow pancreases. AKA animal sourced.
IDK doesn't make sense to me why it cost so much more than penicillin
Be careful, my insulin pump made me lose 40 pounds and I am now down to 160. I couldn't eat, cause it did not give me enough insulin to prevent me from having high blood sugar. And as you know DKA will strip weight off of you like made. (it will also kill you) Be Very Careful.
November 19, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Be careful, my insulin pump made me lose 40 pounds and I am now down to 160. I couldn't eat, cause it did not give me enough insulin to prevent me from having high blood sugar. And as you know DKA will strip weight off of you like made. (it will also kill you) Be Very Careful.
And I don't think Trump will end this, but maybe just maybe since he is already a Billionaire, people will start to realize, the government is not for us. E.G. Trump stealing Top Secrete Documents verse Jack Teixeira. There are currently 2 forms of laws. And build a new one?
November 19, 2024 at 11:15 AM
And I don't think Trump will end this, but maybe just maybe since he is already a Billionaire, people will start to realize, the government is not for us. E.G. Trump stealing Top Secrete Documents verse Jack Teixeira. There are currently 2 forms of laws. And build a new one?
To me it is clear we live in an Oligarchy that has 2 parties that we hope and pray will win to do our representing, but never can do anything because "the other side" blocks any progress. E.G. Healthcare is priced for the wealthy only.
Women and minorities are paid less, etc etc.
Women and minorities are paid less, etc etc.
November 19, 2024 at 11:12 AM
To me it is clear we live in an Oligarchy that has 2 parties that we hope and pray will win to do our representing, but never can do anything because "the other side" blocks any progress. E.G. Healthcare is priced for the wealthy only.
Women and minorities are paid less, etc etc.
Women and minorities are paid less, etc etc.
I'm old, but to me it feels like democracy died before I was born. 330 million US citizens have 535 representatives representing us in this so called democracy, if you are lucky. E.G. Puerto Rico just has observers of democracy. Amendments are over written by law, E.G. 15th Amendment vs Jimmy Crow
November 19, 2024 at 11:10 AM
I'm old, but to me it feels like democracy died before I was born. 330 million US citizens have 535 representatives representing us in this so called democracy, if you are lucky. E.G. Puerto Rico just has observers of democracy. Amendments are over written by law, E.G. 15th Amendment vs Jimmy Crow
True, but if even more people are getting diabetes, and the fact it has been around for millenniums. Should we not focus on curing it? Why do people have to suffer from diabetes, just because a new virus came out 5 years ago?
November 19, 2024 at 1:52 AM
True, but if even more people are getting diabetes, and the fact it has been around for millenniums. Should we not focus on curing it? Why do people have to suffer from diabetes, just because a new virus came out 5 years ago?
I don't have access to the article, is one of the reasons because of the advancements in medicine, diabetics are surviving longer now?
November 19, 2024 at 1:49 AM
I don't have access to the article, is one of the reasons because of the advancements in medicine, diabetics are surviving longer now?
And it is the AMA, and CDC that claim food and lack are the biggest risk factors for type 2 diabetes.
The miss information is coming from the sources that should know better. My favorite is that the increase in diabetes is lifestyle (CDC) not higher survivorship. We know we are not to blame🤷♂️
The miss information is coming from the sources that should know better. My favorite is that the increase in diabetes is lifestyle (CDC) not higher survivorship. We know we are not to blame🤷♂️
November 19, 2024 at 1:46 AM
And it is the AMA, and CDC that claim food and lack are the biggest risk factors for type 2 diabetes.
The miss information is coming from the sources that should know better. My favorite is that the increase in diabetes is lifestyle (CDC) not higher survivorship. We know we are not to blame🤷♂️
The miss information is coming from the sources that should know better. My favorite is that the increase in diabetes is lifestyle (CDC) not higher survivorship. We know we are not to blame🤷♂️
The older I get, the less likely I am to tell them I have T1D, it really more fun that way. Cause they scratch their heads on why I have a pump, and have such a low A1C.
I guess maybe after all these years, it feels better to just let them have a surreal moment, rather than me explain, again.
I guess maybe after all these years, it feels better to just let them have a surreal moment, rather than me explain, again.
November 19, 2024 at 1:38 AM
The older I get, the less likely I am to tell them I have T1D, it really more fun that way. Cause they scratch their heads on why I have a pump, and have such a low A1C.
I guess maybe after all these years, it feels better to just let them have a surreal moment, rather than me explain, again.
I guess maybe after all these years, it feels better to just let them have a surreal moment, rather than me explain, again.
Yes, I have many. 1) If LDL is used to fix nerves and hormone damaged cells. And diabetics have lots of nerve and hormone damage, why do we want to lower their LDL below normal levels?
Wouldn't that make us sicker? Don't we need the extra LDL to repair the damage diabetes is causing to our cells?
Wouldn't that make us sicker? Don't we need the extra LDL to repair the damage diabetes is causing to our cells?
November 19, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Yes, I have many. 1) If LDL is used to fix nerves and hormone damaged cells. And diabetics have lots of nerve and hormone damage, why do we want to lower their LDL below normal levels?
Wouldn't that make us sicker? Don't we need the extra LDL to repair the damage diabetes is causing to our cells?
Wouldn't that make us sicker? Don't we need the extra LDL to repair the damage diabetes is causing to our cells?
Ozempic is a diabetes medication that helps the pancreas produce more insulin. It's a small protein called a peptide.
Thus it cannot be used to treat things like DKA, but it can be used to help make the body make more insulin.
Thus it cannot be used to treat things like DKA, but it can be used to help make the body make more insulin.
November 17, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Ozempic is a diabetes medication that helps the pancreas produce more insulin. It's a small protein called a peptide.
Thus it cannot be used to treat things like DKA, but it can be used to help make the body make more insulin.
Thus it cannot be used to treat things like DKA, but it can be used to help make the body make more insulin.
"it appears that insulin is capable of activating the precise cellular pathway implicated in autism." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
Insulin Signaling and Autism
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 17, 2024 at 10:32 PM
"it appears that insulin is capable of activating the precise cellular pathway implicated in autism." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
No, on those fancy planes i have heard the condiments come in little glass jars. Insulin vials have a very distinctive shape like this.
November 17, 2024 at 10:30 PM
No, on those fancy planes i have heard the condiments come in little glass jars. Insulin vials have a very distinctive shape like this.
But, I mean the insulin issue has been going on for decades, it continually cost more and more every single year. Insurance constantly cost more each year too, and deductibles continue to climb as well. Desperation leads to people saying yeah what do we have to lose? Can't afford the traditional🤷♂️
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 PM
But, I mean the insulin issue has been going on for decades, it continually cost more and more every single year. Insurance constantly cost more each year too, and deductibles continue to climb as well. Desperation leads to people saying yeah what do we have to lose? Can't afford the traditional🤷♂️
I have an idea, that a researcher could probably help with.
The elevator pitch is, countries have wars, and hospitals get bombed, Natural disasters cause electricity to be dropped for days, and US medical is too expensive.
Could we create a way to DIY animal sourced insulin with small cost equip?
The elevator pitch is, countries have wars, and hospitals get bombed, Natural disasters cause electricity to be dropped for days, and US medical is too expensive.
Could we create a way to DIY animal sourced insulin with small cost equip?
November 17, 2024 at 10:14 PM
I have an idea, that a researcher could probably help with.
The elevator pitch is, countries have wars, and hospitals get bombed, Natural disasters cause electricity to be dropped for days, and US medical is too expensive.
Could we create a way to DIY animal sourced insulin with small cost equip?
The elevator pitch is, countries have wars, and hospitals get bombed, Natural disasters cause electricity to be dropped for days, and US medical is too expensive.
Could we create a way to DIY animal sourced insulin with small cost equip?
This is the thing that kills me about "the number of diabetics is going up" too. Yes there are more diabetics than ever before, because the therapies are now working, and they no longer die. It's not an epidemic it a higher survival rate. 🕊️💙
November 17, 2024 at 2:46 PM
This is the thing that kills me about "the number of diabetics is going up" too. Yes there are more diabetics than ever before, because the therapies are now working, and they no longer die. It's not an epidemic it a higher survival rate. 🕊️💙
I took this for years, as a teenager, so you know it was a nightmare on nightmare. I lost many friends to dead in bed with it too, so please be-careful with it, don't rage rage bolus that stuff, it has a huge slingshot affect.
November 17, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I took this for years, as a teenager, so you know it was a nightmare on nightmare. I lost many friends to dead in bed with it too, so please be-careful with it, don't rage rage bolus that stuff, it has a huge slingshot affect.
I keep hoping if they do end some regulation, they will end the regulation that blocks insulin from being imported from other countries. Just imagine how much cheaper US insulin would become if we could buy Russian, Mexican or German insulin over here.
November 17, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I keep hoping if they do end some regulation, they will end the regulation that blocks insulin from being imported from other countries. Just imagine how much cheaper US insulin would become if we could buy Russian, Mexican or German insulin over here.
I cannot disagree, literally 1.2 million Americans are diagnosed diabetic each year. Yet we only have 30 million diabetics, so the average life span of a diabetic in America is 25 years.
They bankrupt them, and then let them die, once they run out of $. 1.2(diag) x 25(yrs) = 30. Cattle for Cash.
They bankrupt them, and then let them die, once they run out of $. 1.2(diag) x 25(yrs) = 30. Cattle for Cash.
November 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM
I cannot disagree, literally 1.2 million Americans are diagnosed diabetic each year. Yet we only have 30 million diabetics, so the average life span of a diabetic in America is 25 years.
They bankrupt them, and then let them die, once they run out of $. 1.2(diag) x 25(yrs) = 30. Cattle for Cash.
They bankrupt them, and then let them die, once they run out of $. 1.2(diag) x 25(yrs) = 30. Cattle for Cash.
I been diabetic before ADA, before Obamacare, since 1980, every single year it gets worse, more expensive harder to get supplies. Nothing has ever happen to change any of that.
In less words, don't panic the fight will continue.
Some day we will all just harvest our own insulin from pigs 😆
In less words, don't panic the fight will continue.
Some day we will all just harvest our own insulin from pigs 😆
November 16, 2024 at 7:14 PM
I been diabetic before ADA, before Obamacare, since 1980, every single year it gets worse, more expensive harder to get supplies. Nothing has ever happen to change any of that.
In less words, don't panic the fight will continue.
Some day we will all just harvest our own insulin from pigs 😆
In less words, don't panic the fight will continue.
Some day we will all just harvest our own insulin from pigs 😆