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Was dorm-mates with a T1D. Four of us total. His bunk mate and best friend basically saved his life twice in that semester. How come the disease gets so little

• mjaniczek 2y ago
  In my checks the calendar 15 years with the disease, I've thankfully only had a hypoglycemic coma once, at a summer camp. I was leading a bass guitar workshop and just suddenly started making less and less sense. It was the only time my blood sugar dropped so fast my brain didn't notice, didn't alert me to eat something, just went straight into being unusable. Supposedly I laid down on a couch and passed out, which is when one of the kids at the workshop realized it's a similar symptom to what their grandpa had, and alerted a grown-up. I'm very glad there were people around me at that moment. I woke up to a full bottle of cola and some bread rolls with Nutella being forced into me.
• globular-toast 2y ago
  I wonder if the emergence of type 2 diabetes has had a negative effect. Many practitioners call it something like "fake diabetes" as it has very little in common with type 1. It's not uncommon to meet people who are "diabetic" today, but most of them are type 2, they don't need insulin and you probably won't have to save their life.