blood sugar , cgm , diabetes , mental break , mental health , t1d , type 1 diabetes
Last weekend I took a ‘mental break’ from my type 1 diabetes.
This didn’t mean that I stopped taking insulin or testing my sugars. (i can’t really do that or i’ll die) I still took care of myself during my ‘break’, but made an effort to take some time off from overthinking it.
My last Dexcom sensor ripped out unexpectedly last week, and I didn’t have a new shipment of sensors coming in for another week or so. I honestly freaked out when this originally happened. I haven’t been without a CGM in about a year! How was I going to feel my lows? What if I trend high for the next week? How will I workout or sleep or know that I am taking the right amount of insulin…
And then I remembered that I had managed my diabetes for 14 years without a CGM. I can always feel…
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