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Person on screen: needs a couple pats of butter, a splash of olive oil, simmered on low with a bay leaf and a cinnamon stick. What?! You never seen a boy who knows his way around the kitchen? 

Yeah my mom always wanted a little girl but she got stuck with me instead. That wasn’t gonna stop her though so all my friends were opening up nerf guns and bmx bikes on their birthday, I was getting crockpots. 

(scene changes to the person dressed in a nice black suit jacket, bright pink dress shirt, and black tie) Yeah laugh it up! Take a picture while you’re at it 'cause this is the last time you’ll ever see me in a suit! How do boys wear these things??

With CGMs, Bluetooth is how you get the data from the cannula under your skin to an actual display (phone, pump, separate receiver) so you can do anything with it; there is no functionality with Bluetooth.

With insulin pumps, I don’t know the exact proportions of tubed/tubeless in use pumps, but tubeless are in major if not the majority use, and they don’t have displays/controls on the pump itself, but with your phone or a separate receiver, which only function via Bluetooth. Tubed pumps are technically functional without Bluetooth, but ideally you want them integrated with your cgm bc this drastically increases quality of life/care, and once again you can only do this with Bluetooth.

If you’re a tubed pump without a cgm, i guess you could try to hack it, but I can’t envision that not voiding the warranty, which can be medically precarious for reasons not really relevant here. There are plenty of people adventurous enough to do warranty voiding things to their pump, but it’s not really worth anything without a cgm

Oh cool so the CDC is just doing a media blitz to lie the groundwork for weed becoming illegal again in many places huh okay

I have never had these problems, as a chronic cannabis user, I literally ingested mould that was growing in my guts…..

But the doctors ALL blamed it on my cannabis use.

I got pamphlets and guides on how to curb my 'addiction', and they stressed real hard it doesn't matter if I used it for medical reasons, if I wanted it at all when I wasn't on it, it must mean I am addicted and need to stop.

I am 100% certain that my INGESTING MOULD issue was written down as "Cannabis Emesis Syndrome" and would get wrapped up in the data to suggest that emergency room visits among cannabis users for cannabis use is becoming higher.

Like... it's fucking biased reporting that is going to fuck a lot of us over.

Despite having an active infection, not having even used cannabis in a month or two because I was actively recovering from a surgery, I was told that it was likely CES (even though all the pamphlets they gave me said CES would ease if you didn't use again "for a few days to a week"). And my only advice when I was discharged (after staying the night, being flooded with antibiotics and hydrated via salin drip), was to cut out the cannabis. I ingested a fuck ton of mould spores that made me sick, but because I also am a chronic cannabis user because of my debilitating nerve pain and PTSD, it will have been listed in the records as CES because that is what the doctors decided to focus on. Because it's the big new scary thing.

Fuck, the surgery I was talking about before that I was recovering from was gallbladder removal - and before that my own doctor tried to blame CES for what was in fact a very inflamed gallbladder. Once I got over the rough recovery from that, the symptoms my doctor wanted to associate with CES *went away* because it wasn't CES it was an actively inflamed gallbladder that was causing the problems.

Like, people talk about fad health trends in pop culture readily enough but I think we should also turn this focus towards doctors themselves because holy shit this was a fringe theory that everyone latched on to and started reporting cases of - regardless of whether or not they fit the description.

this meant for the first time in a long time i could not stomach marijuana (i don't smoke/vape because i have asthma and value my lungs) as a frequent medicinal user. cause y'know. i have MCAS and chronic pain/nausea/etc and weed helps.

i also have health anxiety and was worried that the increased chronic symptoms & more frequent allergic reactions could be linked to weed, since it was one of the most consistent parts of my diet and i've heard about CES. i also didn't want ER/UC doctors to dismiss symptoms (especially fatigue/brain fog) as being associated w cannabis use even though all my usual doctors know about it, so... i stopped for a while.

even as my other symptoms improved, i was SO nauseous and everything i ate was making me sick. when the list of foods i could eat got down to rice, water, and salt and i was too nauseous to have any appetite, i caved and got a vape.

not only did it help w my immediate nausea, the number of reactions i was having a day went down steadily. i could keep food down, and i was slowly able to introduce foods back into my diet. when i told my GP about it, she was like "yep makes sense keep having weed" because i have the best doctor in the world (i am so lucky)

CES probably exists because human bodies are weird and all different from each other and the dose makes the poison, yknow? but cannabis IS medicinal. most people probably won't benefit from daily marijuana use, but some of us do! because it's MEDICINAL.