Basically I'm type 1 diabetic and considering this method
I recently went a few days without taking any of my insulin. At this point I should have been quite unwell and needing hospital admission however unfortunately I did not get to this point. I felt awful but only had high blood sugars, no ketones (the highest my blood ketones got was 0.9 and it went away when I ate carbs even though I didn't take insulin for them), so I gave in and took my insulin again.
I think I would need to commit to minimal eating and near constant exercise in order to get high enough ketones, but it can be done.
However, DKA might be an unpleasant way to go. I have never experienced it as I was diagnosed before I got very unwell with t1d and started insulin before I got many ketones. I don't know if my stopping insulin recently was a proper attempt really; more not caring what happened, wanting to play with the risk of dying, wanting to be ill or for someone to intervene. But I didn't get ill enough.
Taking too much insulin is another option but too much SI I think; I tried even just making my blood sugars go low on purpose recently and I couldn't hold out not treating it. I think I'd have to slowly run them lower and lower so I then wouldn't get symptoms, I'd just get seizures and die.
But also, my cognition my intelligence is the only thing going for me, the only thing I have left that I'm living for and that I value as me. My life would be even worse if I lost that, if I survived but with brain damage.
I'm looking for some advice here, but I don't know if on anything specific - any of it, really.
Also I put this under methods so in suicide discussion, but I'm happy for suicide and recovery answers both here.
I recently went a few days without taking any of my insulin. At this point I should have been quite unwell and needing hospital admission however unfortunately I did not get to this point. I felt awful but only had high blood sugars, no ketones (the highest my blood ketones got was 0.9 and it went away when I ate carbs even though I didn't take insulin for them), so I gave in and took my insulin again.
I think I would need to commit to minimal eating and near constant exercise in order to get high enough ketones, but it can be done.
However, DKA might be an unpleasant way to go. I have never experienced it as I was diagnosed before I got very unwell with t1d and started insulin before I got many ketones. I don't know if my stopping insulin recently was a proper attempt really; more not caring what happened, wanting to play with the risk of dying, wanting to be ill or for someone to intervene. But I didn't get ill enough.
Taking too much insulin is another option but too much SI I think; I tried even just making my blood sugars go low on purpose recently and I couldn't hold out not treating it. I think I'd have to slowly run them lower and lower so I then wouldn't get symptoms, I'd just get seizures and die.
But also, my cognition my intelligence is the only thing going for me, the only thing I have left that I'm living for and that I value as me. My life would be even worse if I lost that, if I survived but with brain damage.
I'm looking for some advice here, but I don't know if on anything specific - any of it, really.
Also I put this under methods so in suicide discussion, but I'm happy for suicide and recovery answers both here.
