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My #endocrinologist still can't make up their mind whether I have #diabetes type 1 or type 2 because #COVID19 gave me diabetes. They switched me from #insulin to #metformin and it's working pretty well. They plan to add some #glp1 agonist at some point down the road. Not sure about that though. I know that both insulin and #Semaglutid are hormons that are native to the body. But I just feel (maybe irrational) apprehension towards drugs like #ozempic. Any fellow #diabetic got some experiences to share?

My #endocrinologist still can't make up their mind whether I have #diabetes type 1 or type 2 because #COVID19 gave me diabetes. They switched me from #insulin to #metformin and it's working pretty well. They plan to add some #glp1 agonist at some point down the road. Not sure about that though. I know that both insulin and #Semaglutid are hormons that are native to the body. But I just feel (maybe irrational) apprehension towards drugs like #ozempic. Any fellow #diabetic got some experiences to share?

My #endocrinologist still can't make up their mind whether I have #diabetes type 1 or type 2 because #COVID19 gave me diabetes. They switched me from #insulin to #metformin and it's working pretty well. They plan to add some #glp1 agonist at some point down the road. Not sure about that though. I know that both insulin and #Semaglutid are hormons that are native to the body. But I just feel (maybe irrational) apprehension towards drugs like #ozempic. Any fellow #diabetic got some experiences to share?

My #endocrinologist still can't make up their mind whether I have #diabetes type 1 or type 2 because #COVID19 gave me diabetes. They switched me from #insulin to #metformin and it's working pretty well. They plan to add some #glp1 agonist at some point down the road. Not sure about that though. I know that both insulin and #Semaglutid are hormons that are native to the body. But I just feel (maybe irrational) apprehension towards drugs like #ozempic. Any fellow #diabetic got some experiences to share?

My #endocrinologist still can't make up their mind whether I have #diabetes type 1 or type 2 because #COVID19 gave me diabetes. They switched me from #insulin to #metformin and it's working pretty well. They plan to add some #glp1 agonist at some point down the road. Not sure about that though. I know that both insulin and #Semaglutid are hormons that are native to the body. But I just feel (maybe irrational) apprehension towards drugs like #ozempic. Any fellow #diabetic got some experiences to share?

Where to even begin:
I've had a WILD fucking past 5 days. I'm all set to do HRT on September 12th, but I foolishly talk about fatigue and the endo delays HRT. AND then I get unplanned labs the next day. Also dydrogesterone isn't in the USA so neighbors of it are needed.

Now then, we move to Saturday: I have a LONG car ride during which I'm only able to attend the concert parts of Splatoon 3's Grand Festival. And then we see the Green Day concert after the drive and some preparation. Good times, except we lose track of our parking at the end and my feet by the end of everything was in physical pain. Also someone detransitioned but that's besides the point.

Sunday is quite a lazy day, apart from the car ride. Fast forward to Monday: I'm with my grandparents for an appointment, and they of course like the old me but I've now seen their mental decline and had to stop them from being scammed twice. I get through all the misgendering. And then at the appointment, I fortunately ended up 5 minutes late because my mom missed two turns. I say it was fortunate because in my absence, two IRL friends I've known for many years and who I knew were somewhat right-leaning but amicable (one was a delinquent who got expelled and my dad hated him, and the other was a long-term friend of mine but who was worried about the extent of my transition.)

And then they flushed their dogwhistle ruse down the toilet by mocking pronouns and telling another friend of mine who literally knows everything about me that they will always deadname me. My good friend calls them KKKonservatives in response. I witness none of it, and am only informed AFTER seeing my therapist that night.

I tell the story to LGBTQ+ college clubs, and my older college was much more chipper about it. The current college gay club featured two cisn't people who offered support ruining it by using dude/bro on me and starting to buy into the "bro is gender-neutral" bullshit, and I ended up the next day telling a nonbinary campus therapist, and they gave a referendum order to the club.

AND then my fucking Panda Express clerk keeps fucking calling me Sir.

AND one person who I always talk to early in class decided to attempt to mislead me about a test that wasn't happening to make me mad.

I'm SO fucking done with people, and I'm listening to some VERY feminine songs to emasculate my thought processes. Maybe I DO want mental changes from E?

I'm just so fucking done with being seen as male. I'm intersex and nonbinary, and how far do I need to go to prove I'm neither male nor female, especially the former. Also fuck Nintendo for Professor Oak's questions. Saying I'm a boy or girl is almost exclusively untruth, so either way I'm lying to Oak except not because I'm bigender between binaries (technically I'm a demiambonec/demibigenderfluidflux, going by polygender as a catch-all, and at one point before the fae contention I called myself a genderfae demiboy [Though I am English and Irish so MAYBE fae isn't as charged for me] so there is that. So the answer is both of the Oak questions and simultaneously none of them.)

It's a complete fucking mess in my life right now, and I've been listening to some rather interesting music, much of it emo.

AND the psych and primary labs haven't been done/fixed either, and I'm having issues with my personal PC.

I'm just so fucking done right now. If you have anything positive to tell me, do so. #cryforhelp #lifeupdate #medicalerror #medicalhorror #hrtmorelikehurt #hrt #endocrinologist #americanhealthcareisbullshit #americanhealthcaresucks #splatoon #splatoon3 #grandfestival #finalfest #parkingwoes #parking #footpain #detrans #misgendering #dementia #alzheimers #pandaexpress #betrayal #bigotedfriends #delinquents #dogwhistle #therapywoes #supportgroupfailure #deception #estrogen #synthetichrt #intersex #fucknintendo #ambonec #bigender #genderfluix #fluidflux #UK #irldrama #emomusic #techissues #greenday #concert

Pre-HRT, I had a couple of unexplained serum levels. My #endocrinologist didn't think anything of it, but in hindsight it seems to me like a possible sign of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Should I get that checked out?

17-α-OHP : 2.03 ng/mL
DHEA-S : 560 μg/dL
FAI : 108.8
SHBG : 16.90 nmol/L
T : 5.3 μg/L

Pre-HRT, I had a couple of unexplained serum levels. My #endocrinologist didn't think anything of it, but in hindsight it seems to me like a possible sign of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Should I get that checked out?

17-α-OHP : 2.03 ng/mL
DHEA-S : 560 μg/dL
FAI : 108.8
SHBG : 16.90 nmol/L
T : 5.3 μg/L

So I'm on #insulin now and as of last week, I have been diagnosed as a #diabetic. I only received the insulin yesterday. An appointment with an #endocrinologist needs to be made though in order to figure out if it's Type 1/2 #diabetes.

This, of course, came as a huge shock to me and my #BGL levels have been incredibly high as of the past few weeks, if not months, since discovery.

My BGL has been ranging between 22-32+ mmol/L since finding it was so high all those weeks ago. But this could've been going on for months, and my #HBA1c is 11% for the past three months.

That equates to an average of 15+ mmol/L daily for BGL, my doctor told me. And the normal range for a healthy individual is 4-8 mmol/L.

Huge thanks to my friend, @hiddensoul, as well. He helped me get setup with how to inject my 10 units nightly at dinner time, while giving me a box of needles to use.

I tried desperately to get needles off my regular pharmacist, but the stubborn bastard would not give them to me. He probably thought I was a drug user or something.