7 Raw Truths About Life With Type 1 Diabetes (and a Halloween Hangover)

When life gets chaotic, blood sugars don’t wait for you to catch up — and this week, Mike and Jack are back with seven brutally honest truths from the frontline of T1D life. From spooky sugar spikes and dodgy Libre sensors to quitting vapes, meal-prep wins, and the unholy combo of pasta and garlic bread... this one’s part confessional, part comedy, all real.

In This Episode:

• 🎨 Jack’s painting session victory — five hours in perfect range!

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• 📱 Libre dramas and customer service redemption arcs

• 💪 Mike’s fight to get back on track (and proud dad moment for Riley)

• 🚬 The great vaping struggle — what do you replace it with when food means insulin?

• 🍝 The carbonara comeback: when pasta returns to haunt your blood sugar

• 🧠 Dawn phenomenon, fasting, and the myth of “herbal insulin cures”

• 🐔 The KFC confession — and the shockingly smooth glucose curve that followed

  
  

💬 Quote of the Episode:

“We get the pancreas person stuff… and then the other stuff. It’s heavier for us.”

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🔗 External Resource: Diabetes UK – Managing Type 1

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