The Sugar Blog
A stack of medical journals including The Lancet

A personal, day by day account of living with diabetes.

A personal record, kept in public

What it actually feels like, on the days it counts.

An honest, day to day account of living with diabetes. The funny days, the flat and boring days, and the days that are genuinely hard, written down without cleaning any of it up.

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What makes this different

No forced positivity

The full emotional range, not just the manageable parts

Most diabetes content online is either clinical or relentlessly upbeat. This is neither. Some entries are funny, some are angry, some are just tired, and some are heavier than that. All of it gets written down.

A number for the day

Every entry starts with a simple 1 to 10 rating

Before anything else, each entry is tagged with how the day actually felt, from steady and at peace with it, to genuinely underwater. It's a quick way to find entries that match where you're at right now.

Comments, not platitudes

A place for other people to say what they're carrying too

Comments are open. Not for advice or fixing, just for people working through the same thing to recognize themselves in it and say so.

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