#1784 Someone Peed in My Bed
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Britney discusses her son’s T1D diagnosis, the importance of flexible insulin management, and using Trio. Plus, Scott unveils new calculators for baseline insulin settings and the Warsaw method.
Key Takeaways
- Mistaken Identity: Britney recounts the stressful month leading up to her son's Type 1 diagnosis, where his increased urination was initially blamed on the family cat.
- Clinical Perspective vs. Lived Experience: As a former ICU nurse, Britney discusses how hospital training focuses on "do not die" advice, which fell short during her son’s first illness, leading her to seek actionable management tools.
- Prioritizing Flexibility: Britney explains why being willing to try again after a high blood sugar and adjusting insulin aggressively to meet the actual need—rather than sticking to rigid clinical percentage increases—is foundational to their success.
- DIY Looping and A1C Success: Using the Trio DIY looping system, Britney’s son Henry has achieved an A1C range of 5.6 to 5.9, demonstrating the power of automated insulin delivery when combined with correct settings.
- Vibe Coding and Calculators: Scott previews a weight-based settings calculator designed to provide a realistic mathematical starting point for basal rates, carb ratios, and correction factors.
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- • Bold Beginnings & Small Sips Series: Foundation for Type 1 management.
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BritneyHi. My name is Britney. I am the mom of an eight year old who has type one diabetes.
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The "Cat Crime Scene" and Diagnosis Story
BritneyHi. My name is Britney. I am the mom of an eight year old who has type one diabetes.
Scott BennerGood morning, Britney. How are you?
BritneyI'm doing well. How are you?
Scott BennerYou know, honestly, fantastic. Yeah. You know? Seriously. I don't know how it gets better to be perfectly honest with you.
BritneyWell, you don't have COVID.
Scott BennerSo I shook the COVID in, thirty six hours. Like, it was nothing. Couldn't stick to me. Maybe made my nose a little drippy. That was pretty well. That's not true. I had a I got a little woozy there once, but I was okay. Little yeah. Head pressure. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah. But I got through it pretty fast. What I was talking about more is it's the holidays. I had a nice holiday season. The family was around. I got a nice year coming up, planned. Hopefully, things go pretty well. I've buttoned up a lot of things with my health, so I'm feeling in tip top shape. And I, I make a podcast, so my life is not what I would call taxing by standard, standard measurements. So, yeah, I'm doing okay.
BritneyYeah. That's great.
Scott BennerTook me a long time to get in this position. For all of you who are like, you know, I work hard. I wanna tell you about the time, in my life for four years when I got up at 05:00 in the morning to drive to my job in a sheet metal shop where I made $4.50 an hour and had to ride a motorcycle because I couldn't afford car insurance, and that was even in the winter. So I put my time in. Alright? Now Scott's gonna put his feet up and make this podcast. Everyone else calm down. Stop complaining—I'm already imagining people complaining to me. Britney, why why you wanna come on a podcast and make the chitchat? What's going on?
BritneyI really love the podcast, and I would say it's probably the most helpful thing that I've encountered since my son's diagnosis. And not that I have anything groundbreaking to say, I don't think, but I really love listening to everyone else's stories, and maybe someone will like listening to mine is what I'm hopeful for.
Scott BennerBrittany, that's awesome. Also, I don't know that you won't say something groundbreaking, and don't tell them that upfront. They might switch off to another one. You know what I mean?
BritneyYeah. I have some really big news. How about we'll go with that?
Scott BennerYeah. Britney has the secret to what? Painless periods. Right, Britney?
BritneyYeah. Yeah. I do. I don't have painful periods, so that's great.
Scott BennerAnd we're gonna talk about that right after the ads. So how old was it? Was it your daughter? I'm sorry. My son.
BritneySo my son yep. He's eight year olds now, and he was diagnosed when he was seven and a half, so November 2024. Very fresh. Just over a year ago, and it's been kind of a wild ride.
Scott BennerOther kids?
BritneyI have an older son who is 11.
Scott BennerIs there a boy you're allowed to live in the house with you?
BritneyYes. I'm married and have been for, I I don't know, like, years, I think.
Scott BennerI don't know, like, thirteen years, I think.
BritneyI think. I I don't know. It's 2013, so I guess we're coming up on thirteen years.
Scott BennerYou think he hears that and he thinks, awesome. That's awesome.
BritneyHe has no idea—absolutely not.
Scott BennerWhich one of the boys did you get? Did you get the, the sweet ones with the facial hair? Did you get the one that can throw a ball real far and make money? Did you get the one who's dirty all the time, but somehow, like, gets everything accomplished? Which one did you get?
BritneyI think the third. He's, like, dirty all the time. He get he gets things done. He's very tall, so that's kinda great.
Scott BennerIs that what got you, the tall?
BritneyI think so.
Scott BennerDo you ever look back and think, I had so many more, like, feelings about my my intellect, what I what I what would get me. And you're like, you one day, you just look up and go, boy, that boy's tall. Yeah. Yeah.
BritneyThat's what I was going for. So—
Scott BennerI looked at Kelly, and I was like, her hip to waist ratio is awesome. Let's go. Oh, since then, I've learned other stuff about her that I like. I just—
BritneyYeah. I've learned other things about my husband that I like too, so that's great.
Scott BennerIs one of them that he makes babies with diabetes?
BritneyYeah. Turns out he has a lot of autoimmune in his family, and I didn't really think much of that until recently.
Scott BennerYou didn't bring that up on the first date, I bet.
BritneyNo. No. Definitely not.
Scott BennerCan I make a guess? Let me just guess. Okay. I propose nothing. Let's think. Well, his mom definitely has Hashimoto's.
BritneyI don't I don't think so.
Scott BennerWell lupus?
BritneyYou know, she had something with her thyroid, but I don't know if it was Hashimoto's.
Scott BennerOh, so I got thyroid. You how can you take that point for me? That was crazy, Britney.
BritneyOkay. Fine. You can have that.
Scott BennerAlright. Alright. Let's see. We have a cousin once removed with celiac, maybe type one, and a lot of people are anxious.
BritneyThere is no type one, but there are a few cousins with celiac, a cousin with MS, and then his dad, before he passed away, was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis.
Scott BennerWhat now?
BritneyMyasthenia gravis. I I don't really know what it is.
Scott BennerThat makes two of us.
BritneyBut I I know it's autoimmune.
Scott BennerAlright. Well, we'll try to figure that out. Nobody's anxious? Bit of anxiety all over the place?
BritneyI mean, yes. But, like, nothing diagnosed that I'm aware of. But I don't know if everyone's going around letting everyone know they're diagnosed with anxiety.
Scott BennerYeah. I mean but you can see it at Christmas is what you're saying. They used to call it type a.
BritneyYeah. Mhmm.
Scott BennerMG is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that causes muscle weakness that worsens with activity and improves with rest. So that doesn't set you up for a fun life. What's actually going wrong? Your immune system makes antibodies that interfere with communication between nerves and muscles, specifically at the neuromuscular junction. The signal gets weaker, so muscles tire out quickly. Common symptoms would be drooping eyelids, double vision, slurred or nasal speech, trouble chewing or swallowing, weakness in arms, legs, neck, fatigue that gets worse as the day goes on. Jeez. What makes it—Yeah. Better or worse? Exertion, illness, stress, heat, certain medications make it worse, better rest, sleep, proper treatment.
BritneyRight.
Scott BennerHow old was he when he passed?
BritneyLike, 75, I think. And I think he was diagnosed at 74. So it wasn't a long run with it, or maybe it was he had it going on and it wasn't diagnosed till later. I don't really know.
Scott BennerYeah. Do you have any idea if it impacted his life?
BritneyYes. Yeah. I don't know exactly how. We weren't super close with his dad, but—
Scott BennerHow could you be the guy who was resting?
BritneyYes. He was resting a lot.
Scott BennerOkay. So that's all happening. Now you make these babies. Everything's going along pretty well for a while. But then what happens? How do you notice the situation, and what steps do you take afterwards?
BritneyI guess we started noticing things a month prior to his diagnosis. The first thing was my husband wanted to get rid of our cat because he thought that the cat was peeing on the floor in my son's room. And it was happening a few times throughout a couple different weeks, and we finally came to realize that although he still wanted to get rid of the cat, it wasn't the cat's fault, and my son was waking up in the middle of the night thinking he was going to the bathroom and peeing on the new carpet in his room.
Scott BennerHere's the question. How big is the cat?
BritneyI mean, he was pretty big. He's since passed away too. But—
Scott BennerOh, are we making air quotes around passed away? Because it sounds like your husband wanted to get rid of this cat.
BritneyI mean, he really did pass away. It was unfortunate, but the cat was pretty big, and it wasn't always a ton of pee that was on the floor. Oh. But there was enough where, like, I would notice it in the morning and run upstairs with the little green machine and clean it before my husband noticed because I didn't want him to get pissed about the cat. So—
Scott BennerYou're the lawyer for the cat. You're like, we gotta fix this crime scene up so our guy doesn't take the fall here. Yeah. Because who would think that your kid's popping out of bed, whipping it out, and peeing on his rug?
BritneyYeah. Yeah. I mean, we're like, there's no way. And then one night, Henry, my son, came down into our bed, and he's like, somebody peed on my bed while I was sleeping.
Scott BennerMhmm. That's what I just said too.
BritneyOh, I'm like, okay. I think that maybe it's you. So, you this know, is kind of early in the school year. We're like, maybe he's stressed out. You know? I don't know what's going on. We went down to Boston for a Bruins game, and he was drinking tons of water. My husband said, I think maybe he has diabetes. And I said, like, you. He doesn't have diabetes.
BritneyAnd he's like, well, you feed him so many sweets. And I was just really offended. Oh my god. Jesus. Yeah. You guys were all revved up from the game. No. It was ridiculous.
Scott BennerHitting each other into the metaphorical boards talking about the where did the diabetes thing pop into your husband's head from? Because he went from—did he say, I think he has diabetes and we're still getting rid of the cat?
BritneyYeah. I mean, like, we've moved on from the cat at this point. We're like, okay. He's stressed at school or something, and that's why he's peeing on the floor. I don't know. But when he said that he thinks he has diabetes and and kind of, like, said it was because I have a sweet tooth and passed it along to them, I was pretty pissed.
BritneyAnd then I remember being in the car on the ride home from Boston, we stopped, like, eight different times. And so I was using—I was new to ChatGPT, so I started using it, and I'm like, you know, increase urination, increase thirst, but not type one diabetes because I was like, there's no way he has diabetes. So I'm like, oh, he has overactive bladder or a urinary tract infection, but definitely not diabetes. I should know better because I am a nurse, but I didn't know better. Mhmm.
BritneyAnd then we went to the doctor's office because I'm like, okay. We'll, you know, bring him in, and they'll probably give him meds for a UTI. And the first thing they did was add a blood sugar, and the tech didn't say anything. I said, oh, well, what was it? Like, of course, it's gonna be normal. He said, oh, 538. And that's when I knew, like, okay. This is diabetes. Although I still wasn't totally sold on that fact.
BritneyAnd when the doctor came into the room to say that's what it was, I said, well, what's your differential? Clearly cannot be diabetes. And she's like, there is no differential. He has type one diabetes.
Scott BennerWell, you prefer chocolate or sugary sugary candy? Which—like, you like a nerd or a m and m? What's your preference?
BritneyI like both all the time. One hand has the nerds. The other hand has the m and m's. We go back and forth. We really do go back and forth. Like, sometimes I have M and M's with the side of pretzels because I like to eat them, like, sweet and salty. Oh, I see. Yeah. Tell your husband from me that he's lucky that you're such a lovely person because if if my—if I would have said that to my wife, she would have said, I—I wonder how you're gonna enjoy living above a pizza place and sending us half your money for the rest of your life.
BritneyRight. I mean, I was having those feelings. So yeah. Oh my gosh. Well okay. Did he—he didn't rub it in, though. Right?
BritneyNo. Not at all. He wasn't in the doctor's office, like, looking at you. He just put his finger on his nose and eyeball on you. Right? Like, knew it. No. No. It's definitely not. Does he understand since then that someone's sweet tooth doesn't have anything to do with their type one diagnosis?
BritneyOh, yeah. Without a doubt. Like, I mean, I hammered it home to him and us did the doctors and yeah. I was like, this is nothing. This is not my fault. It's not his fault. It's nobody's fault. Like, maybe it's all the autoimmune on your family's side, but whatever.
Scott BennerWhen you say hammered at home, was it day 87 of no sex where he figured it out or where—where exact—
BritneyYeah. Like, right in the hospital. Like, because we got admitted right to the hospital from there from that doctor's appointment. But, you know, he wasn't in DKA or anything, which was great. So we had, you know, just a quick stay and a lot of somewhat okay education at the time. Mhmm. And then we went home. That's just a handful of months ago.
BritneyYeah. I mean, a year and three months ago, I guess.
Scott BennerReplaced the carpet or no?
BritneyNo. It was brand new. Pragmatic. I like that. You're like, hey. We cleaned it. It's fine. We did. I—I think it—it—I think it is fine.
Scott BennerAlright. I wanna find out about the rest of this. But first, if I don't ask this, it's gonna stick in my head. What killed the cat?
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BritneyOh, god. I don't know. We brought him into the vet because he wasn't really eating or drinking, and he had—it's not constipation. It was called obstipation, I believe. So, like, super impacted some re—for some reason. And they said that we could do, like, a big expensive surgery that's 2,000 to $5,000, but he's probably gonna need it again in the future. And so we said, "what is the cost to put him down?"
Scott BennerOr here's the different question. And for those of you out here who are like, "I would have done this surgery." Britney's got a sofa she's got her eye on. Okay? Like, just decisions had to be made. Okay. Well, I'm so—I'm so sorry about this. That is really terrible, except for your husband who apparently hated the cat anyway. So it doesn't really matter.
BritneyYeah. I mean, he—he—kinda loved him, but whatever. Yeah. Look. So you—you—know, he's diagnosed. This is all happening. He's not in DKA, which is awesome. She's probably not in the hospital too long. Mhmm. But then you said you're a nurse. What kind of nurse are you?
BritneyWell, for the past ten years, I've just dealt with workers' comp, but I've worked from home. So, like a paperwork nurse, I guess. Oh. But prior to that, I was an ICU nurse. Okay. How long? Yeah. Only a few years. Like—like, four years, I guess. You should have said about as long as people tend to be able to take it, Scott. About four years, and then they get the hell out of there. Yeah. Except for the junkies. Right? The, the adrenaline junkies, they stay. Yeah. I don't get that. Yeah. So okay. So—okay. You've got a background. You've got an education and everything. Does that help you in the beginning? You said you got pretty good direction, but how do you figure out that the direction is not everything you need? What's that whole time look like?
BritneyWell, I would say I wasn't really set up for managing type one diabetes. I didn't even know it was autoimmune until we were diagnosed, which maybe that's embarrassing to say because I'm a nurse, but that's me being honest. I did not know type one was autoimmune. My experience with diabetes in the ICU was doing finger sticks, sliding scale insulin. I had a few people on insulin drips, but I didn't have much experience with it at all. Okay.
BritneyYeah. So, you know, going home, we have the do not die advice, and it was okay. I mean, we—we—left the hospital without a CGM but got one the next day when we came back for an appointment. Through research or through the the hospital suggesting it?
BritneyThrough the hospital suggesting it. So I guess it helped that I was a nurse, they were like, "you know how to do an insulin injection. You know how to do a blood sugar. Go home, and tomorrow, you're coming back for your first appointment with the endocrinologist." And at that appointment, we got the CGM. How did Henry accept what was happening?
BritneyHe was really sad about it. Sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you cry. No. It's okay. You wanna talk about the dead cat some more? No. No? Okay. Alright. Henry, he was okay with it, but he was like, "okay. So I have to do a few shots and then it's gonna go away." And I think the forever thing was really hard. Yeah. For him or for you?
BritneyFor both of us. Yeah. It's okay. How are you doing? Are—are—you okay? Like, I mean, day to day, or is it still—friends, I just placed my order at cozyearth.com.
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BritneyYes. I—am. I don't know why I'm crying. I guess sometimes I cry really easily, but yeah. Sorry. Alright. Don't be sorry. I'm good. Don't listen. You shouldn't—you should—Britney, you shouldn't feel sorry about that. It's—I mean, I could tell you any number of a thousand stories and make me start crying right now. Don't worry about it.
BritneyRight. Yeah. I mean, I cry all the time when I listen to the podcast. I like the silly things, happy things. But—yes. Somebody told me once that the tagline for the podcast should be "making women online cry" or "making women cry online." And I was like, I don't think that sounds good. Apparently, it's, one of the byproducts of what I do here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's all. Like, you know, things happen. You hear stuff that's similar to your story or brings up emotions, and you—you—know, it's sad. It just—it really is. Do you think he's as sad as you are right now? If he heard that story, would it make him feel the same way?
BritneyI don't think so. I think in the beginning, yes. Like, he would look at pictures on my phone and be like, "oh, that was before when I didn't have diabetes," and now pictures after that point in time or when I do have diabetes, and he used to get really sad about that. Mhmm. He's, like, fairly accepting of it now. Sometimes it's harder than other times. Like, last week, we had an upper endoscopy to see if we have a celiac diagnosis, and he's pretty stressed out about that now.
Scott BennerOh, the possibility of the diagnosis? Yeah. Which I think is probably pretty likely, but we don't know yet. So we are eating all the gluten for the time being. What is happening that's—that—that made you get the—the—testing?
BritneyWhen he was first diagnosed, they drew the labs to test for that, and it was suggestive of it. And then I put off really doing anything about it because he didn't have symptoms until his annual lab screening. The numbers went down, but still suggestive, so they said we have to do an upper endoscopy. That's what we've done so far. He doesn't have any stomach issues. I guess, occasionally, he does, but not really.
Scott BennerYeah. Well, maybe he has something they call silent celiac. Britney, I don't like that. But—No. I don't either. I don't like it. I don't like any of those. No. Okay. Well, I hope that that testing comes back positively for him in a way that, you know, keeps him from having to not eat bread anymore. Because how's he gonna have a lobster roll when he goes to see the Bruins play? You know what I mean?
BritneyI know. I know. Seriously. But—but then I'm like, if he's—this is probably gonna piss some people off—I'm like, if he has no symptoms, maybe sometimes he will have a lobster roll, but I guess— Oh, I—listen. I've learned my lesson about people with celiac. Yeah. I'm not saying that. That's Britney. Go find her. Yeah. Leave me alone. Yeah. I—
Britneymean, I've done a lot of reading, and it's like, in some countries, if you don't have symptoms, they say it's, like, controversial to say, "do a gluten free diet." So—I—I—don't know. I—I—don't know. I—just—one time suggested that maybe while a man was in the middle of a nervous breakdown about this, he could let his kid have a cupcake at a birthday party until he figures it out, and I got hammered. So I'm not saying that at all. Britney, go get her. Leave me alone. You're—she's in Boston. You can find her. Go. Go.
BritneyYeah. Exactly. No. Listen. I—I—take your point. You're in the middle of this new diagnosis here, you're—you're—trying to figure out, like, "am I hurting something if I do this?" And I'm sure—listen. I'm sure if someone comes back and says to you, "look, you're—whether his belly hurts or not, here's the damage, and here's what happens, you know, in the future if you keep doing this," I imagine you'll take that pretty seriously. I will. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I—hear what you're saying. Again, please do not email me about this. Oh, god. I—such a passionate group of people, which, by the way, good for you guys. I like—you're out there swinging for each other, but don't swing at me. I didn't say—Yeah. How long will it take to get the results?
BritneyI think, like, sometime this week. Oh, gosh. Yeah. I'm just ignoring the—I'm ignoring everything until I get an email or a phone call is how I'm approaching it. Do you think you don't have the bandwidth to get more news?
BritneyNo. I do. He does. I think my husband would really struggle with it, but I also think maybe my husband has celiac as well. So—Oh. Maybe we could all go gluten free together if we have to. Hey. Cut down on the toilet paper, Bill. Yeah. Why not? There's—there's—a positive to look at it that way. Why do you think your husband has it too?
BritneyHe has, like, constant stomach problems after he eats, and I just have a feeling that he probably has a touch of something too. Oh, I see. Go out to the restaurant, gotta run home afterwards? Yeah. Something like that. Mhmm. All you people out there who can hold your poop in, they don't know how lucky they are. They go to the restaurant, then they go to the movie. Yeah. Like fancy people. They just keep moving around the world—They—Right. Not looking for a toilet. Yeah. Well, listen. Maybe because I've seen this with diabetes a lot. Mhmm.
Scott BennerMaybe you go to your husband and say, "look. You know how you're struggling with all this all the time? That's gonna happen to him. Like, we could present, you know, a better—better—example for him, maybe make his life better. Wouldn't you—wouldn't you—like this not to be happening to you anymore?" Oh, yeah. He's on board. He told—he told Henry, like, "if you do have celiac and have to be gluten free, I'll do it with you." There you go. So—That's the spirit. He's a very good dad. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Henry, you ever call him Hank? No. No? Is it a family name?
BritneyNo. It's just like, guess, I like little old men names. So—Do you ever see, Goodfellas? I have not. Don't watch that movie. Okay. Because I think if you do, you're gonna start doing an impression of Joe Pesci saying Henry, and it's gonna ruin your life. Yeah. No. Okay. So I won't watch that. Don't. You'll just run around going, "Hendry. Hendry." And you're just gonna make you—and you—the kid's gonna be like, "what is happening? I got diabetes. Is this not bad enough? Now the lady's losing her mind." And, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Seriously, don't do that because every time I hear Henry, that's all I hear is Joe Pesci.
BritneySorry. Okay. I won't watch that. Yeah. Also, maybe stop saying the name. You're freaking me out. Yeah. But oh, my gosh. That's a lot. So he's been sad in the past thinking of himself as—as—before and after. You think that's getting better. What about the other stuff? How is he with the devices, the changes, that kind of thing?
BritneyHe's really great about it. I mean, he hates to take off his Dexcom, but we use, like, a solution that kinda dissolves the adhesive, and it will slide off after a little bit. But he's really good about it. He has the g seven, and then he has Omnipod Dash. Okay. And he does awesome with it. Yeah. Yeah. He—does—does he play any sports?
BritneyHe does. He plays hockey. He plays soccer, lacrosse. He's a really active kid. Wow. That's awesome. And not having any trouble with all that? No. Yeah. The devices are not in the way or noticeable to him, so it works out really well. Mhmm. Do you think he's in any sort of a honeymoon? Or is— He—was—until, I guess, from, like, November 2024 to February 2025. He was definitely honeymooning, and then he had the flu. And then he definitely came out of honeymoon after that is what I believe. Okay.
BritneyYou know, he went from using, like, one point five units a day to six units a day to now, like, upwards of 15 to 20. Mhmm. Are you—i'm looking at your notes here. They're really interesting. But let me say this one thing, then i'm gonna dive into your notes. Okay. I think you should be doing voice over for a living. What is it you're—are you—Me? Yeah. My god. If you feel like a, a reassuring—slightly younger—mother figure in an eighties movie.
BritneyWow. I've never liked my voice ever, so that makes me feel pretty good. Yeah. That's insane. Like, if you told me right now that I should, you know, be nicer to my brother and go clean my room, I feel like I would go do it. Be nicer to your brother and go clean your room. I'm already so nice to them, though. Yeah. Okay. Well, be nicer. And my room does need a cleaning. How did you know? Yeah. Seriously, you have, like, such a lovely voice. You don't know that?
BritneyNo. No. In—in—fact, like, I feel like I'm pretty quiet around people because I don't like my voice so much. Brittany, you're making a huge mistake. Okay. Well, I'm gonna talk more then. Yeah. No. Do you have things to say that you don't say because you don't like your voice? I don't know. I think—I—think—i'm just quiet overall, but that's because something I'm working on in 2026 is making—i—feel like I make myself small a lot, and I'm gonna make myself, like, less small and say what I want and say what I feel. That's awesome. Do you have any idea why that happens?
BritneyNo. I—don't. No. I mean, I have—I—have an inkling, and I—I—think like, it's nothing against my husband by any means, but he's ten years older than me. So, like, when we started dating, everyone was—you—know, his friends that I would interact with were all older, and I always felt like I can't say things when I'm 22 and they're 32. And— You felt like you didn't have anything to add? Yeah. Like, where I was, like, too young to have, like, an opinion worth hearing. Mhmm. I think so. But now you're 35. Well, now I'm 40. So— 40? My goodness. Yeah. His time's ticking by. And—I—know. Yeah. And you—you—might have to trade him in soon. Right?
BritneyI mean, he talks about trading me in soon. So—He's kidding. He's kidding. He's—Sure—is. He's wonderful. Whatever. Yeah. He's wonderful. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's interesting. I—I—thought you're for sure gonna tell me, like, you had a domineering mom or something like that. No. I—don't know. No. Just—Yeah. Just that weird, like, feeling of, like, "I don't have a lot to add to this situation."
BritneyYeah. And—and, like, coming on the podcast, like, I—I—think I kinda started it with saying I don't have a lot of groundbreaking things, but, like, maybe I do. And I think I do because I think that I've been successful in diabetes because I'm flexible, and I think that's a little bit groundbreaking for people to hear. Maybe? I don't know. No. No. Don't—don't—say "I don't know" at the end. Just say and maybe say just say "I'm flexible, I think that's groundbreaking." Tell me why flexibility around diabetes is not the norm.
BritneyI guess people can see, like, "oh, when we have ice cream, we go to 500, and so ice cream is—is—off the table for my kid." And I'm of the mindset like, "okay, one time we went to 500, so clearly we need to do more insulin and time it better, and we'll try again." And I think that trying again and saying like, "Okay, well my carb ratio is this, but I anticipate this food's going hit a lot harder so I'm going to give a lot more insulin and have a good outcome." And I think that being willing to try different things has—has—helped us be really successful. That's excellent. And are you telling me that the direction you got from medical staff didn't lead to you being flexible or trying again?
BritneyYeah. Well, I would say that it was the February after his diagnosis when he had the flu, and I called the educators and I said, "you know, I feel like this insulin has gone bad. I'm trying a different pen. I'm doing all of these things, and nothing is enough. His blood sugar is staying sky high." And the feedback I got was like, "Okay, we can increase by 10% every week." And if I had listened to that, he would have been in DKA, I feel like. Like, he had an—an—a significantly increased need, and I decided to not listen to them and just meet the need. And I think—I mean, I got that from the podcast. Like, I just have to meet the need of what his blood sugar is telling me he needs for insulin. I'm glad it helped you. 10%, how much—like, what was his total daily insulin during that time? Like—like, one point eight units—a—day—or something crazy—like—by, like, point one eight and see if this doesn't tackle it.
BritneyYeah. Like, that was—that was—insane to me. And I—and—I think during that conversation, I was just, like, kinda smiling and nodding. "Like, okay. Okay. That sounds good." And then I'm like—"I'm—I'm—gon hit him with a unit right now, and i'll catch it when it starts to drop." And—Yeah. That's basically what we did. And I'm like—"okay. I'll kind of listen to what their guidance is, but I'm not gonna call them for what I need. I can figure this out." That quickly. You took one piece of advice from them that didn't make sense to you, and you—you—trusted your sophomore.
BritneyI did. And I think, like, one of my big skills is I'm good at figuring things out. Mhmm. So I'm like—"I can figure this out." And I also had the podcast that I was listening to, you know, Bold Beginnings, all the different series, and I'm listening to them on 1.5 speed. So I'm getting through them really fast, and it just all kinda clicked in my head. Like, they're saying one thing. That's—their—their—guidance is, like, "we have to tell people to move slowly." And I understand, but it wasn't—it—wasn't—what we needed at that time. You need actionable, like, real world advice for—for—your situation, not big picture—not big picture—stuff.
BritneyRight. Right. Like, yeah, like, maybe if we're noticing some highs, but they're not crazy, like, "let's move it up by 10% and see what it looks like." But I'm calling them saying, like, "this isn't working." Yeah. And that's—He's got the flu. And his blood sugar is this high. You should know that he needs more than 10% here. Right. And, like, I—I—went to the Facebook group at that point, and I said, "you know, my son's needs have increased by, like, 300%. Is this normal? What—what—are we doing?" And I had great feedback. Mhmm. It was so helpful. There's always gonna be somebody that just can't wrap their brain around moving drastically off of whatever the norm is. It just—I—think it shocks people. It scares them. I—I—saw a person the other day. She said, "can we please normalize?" By the way, if you start a store—if you start a sentence with, "can we please normalize?" I stopped listening to you. But—but—that—it's—okay. You keep using your Instagram y catchphrases. Yeah.
Scott BennerCan we please normalize not going to Facebook to ask medical questions? And I was like—you just came to a support group with 80,000 people in it. Right. They're saying that. With each other constantly and going, "you—we—shoudn't be doing this." First of all, you're not, and no one's looking for your opinion. Thanks. That's insane. Yeah. I don't know how you watch so many people helping each other so successfully and then say, "should stop doing this," especially after hearing your story that you just told. Right. Like, why—why—would you not ask people with real world experience, like, lived experience? "Hey. Are you guys having this problem? What should I do here?" Why—why—wouldn't you use that tool? Rules, Britney. Is the way society work? No. No. No. No. No. Stop it. Always follow the rules. Always walk right into the volcano if you have to. That's what I was told.
Scott BennerYeah. Wait. I don't know, but that's—that's—a tough perspective. If—if—you're a person who can't, like, see blatant things in front of you and adjust off of what somebody taught you one day, I actually feel sorry is the wrong word, but I—gosh. I hope you can overcome that because I'm not saying you should just run around ignoring every, you know, trusted source on everything, but you—you—could think about it a little bit. You know? Like, you don't have to just yell, "that's not what we're supposed to do. Everybody put your head down. We're gonna get yelled at." Then again, I don't know how that person grew up. Right. They might have been getting their head screamed off all the time by somebody who told them, "I'm smart and you're stupid and just listen to me." Right. I have no idea. You talked about feeling isolated around the diagnosis. What was that about?
BritneyYeah. I mean, we live in a pretty small town in Vermont, and there's not a lot of other type one diabetics around. We knew of one girl in high school with type one, but that was it. I would see people, like, they're like, "oh, how is everything going?" And I'm like, "oh, you know, it's pretty hard, but we're—we're—getting through it." And then the conversation kinda ends because they don't know what else to ask. Yeah. And I'm not someone who's—give a ton of information that maybe someone's not interested in hearing or isn't equipped to hear. Mhmm. And I also, like, didn't wanna scare people off. I don't want them to be like, "oh, we can't have your son over for a play date because, you know—Yeah—He might die in our care." And so I've really struggled with how much information to give. And I learned pretty quickly that too much information is overwhelming and just enough is what people need, but I also feel like I hadn't found people I could really talk about the successes and the failures with.
BritneyBut I've come to terms with my people are the Facebook group. It's your Facebook group and the Trio Facebook group. Like, those are people that I can bounce ideas off of, share with successes and failures. And in my real life, I guess it's a little bit isolating, but I'm okay with having an online community. Yeah. No. Listen. It doesn't matter where they come from. It really doesn't. Yeah. As long as you find the interaction that you—that—you—need and people who you can—with, you know, some certainty of trust and, you know, you know that they have perspectives that are similar to yours, and hopefully that means they understand what you're going through and don't judge it right away. Also, I don't—you're not—I don't know how you're supposed to trust people who don't have air conditioning. The people of Vermont don't make any sense to me at all. Buy an air conditioner. What is wrong with Vermont?
BritneyI feel like a lot of people have them now. We have them. We have them. I was there one time, and let me tell you something. I know everything about Vermont now, and they didn't have air conditioning. Okay. Well, I do. Are people getting—oh, you have—you—have fancy air conditioning? Look at you. You have chickens in your front yard in a trailer that's been converted into a coop. No. I don't. I don't. I would love to have chickens, but there's bears around, and so we don't. Bears? Yeah. Why don't you leave? That's what I'm saying. I don't know. Vermont's great. Like, I love that my kids can walk around in town and everybody knows them—or—you know? Mhmm. It's great. It's wonderful. The bears won't follow you. They don't do—I don't understand what a bear does. Like—but—
BritneyYeah. I don't know. They eat birdseeds, so we don't put bird feeders out until they're hibernating. There you go. Fair enough. Yeah. Yeah. Rock solid—see, you said you weren't gonna be full of advice. Don't put your bird feeders out till the bears are sleeping. Okay? Yeah. Let's get some—it's really good advice. Big ground breaking advice. Yeah. No. Listen. I bet you that's not a thing a lot of you—I—bet you a lot of people right now go, "I didn't know that." You know? Yeah. That's good. Just here for the big info. I'll be here for the big things. So when you found yourself surrounded by people who didn't understand, the isolated feeling came from not wanting to say too much to somebody who wouldn't understand for fear that it—there'd be some sort of retribution, not—I—mean, maybe the wrong word, but, like, impacts on your son that you didn't want.
BritneyYeah. It was mostly that and, like, maybe a little bit of disappointment from people that I thought would show up, like, people that I thought would be like—"oh. Let's go to this diabetes walk." And I'm like—"okay." But they—they—weren't there. They're not—nobody has said that to me yet. And I'm like—"why—why—haven't you said it yet? Like, why haven't you, like, asked me more about what's going on?" How can I help? They say to you, like, "how can I help? Is there something I could understand?" You're talking parents even, extended family? Yeah. Yeah. So I guess I wanted some more from some people. Like, I just want another parent to have fruit snacks on them. Like, that would make my day if somebody I know is like, "oh, is Henry low? I have fruit snacks." Like, I'm just waiting for somebody to have fruit snacks.
Scott BennerDo you do that for other people in your life? I'm—i'm—always showing up for people in big ways. And maybe when I don't get that in return, it—not that I'm transactional in that way, but, like, sometimes I'm just like, "when does somebody show up in a big way for me?" I feel like I'm whining a lot, and I don't mean to be. I—well, with your terrific voice, it doesn't sound like whining, so you're fine. I guess what I'm asking is—is, like, you know, if that's how you are for other people, then there's an expectation that other people—I—I—think we all do that a little bit. Like, we—we—project how we are onto everyone else. Right? Right. But the truth is these people weren't doing that around anything else. But this thing seems so big that you thought, like, "this will get them off their"—Yeah. Yeah. But it—it—just hasn't.
BritneyIt just hasn't. And so that's where I've, like, come back around being like, "okay. The people online in the Facebook group, they can be my people, and I can be happy with that." And I do have one friend who I've never met who I text with a lot who is like a friend of a friend, and she has a 15 year old, and she's been really great to, like, bounce ideas off of and text with here and there. Mhmm. So I do have that person. That's awesome. Yeah. It really is. And you don't—I—I—mean, this is my perspective, but I don't think you need the regular walking around people in your life to understand it that much. Like, if you found some—because I think that fills the need for you. Like, someone understands. So you can't expect everyone to understand.
BritneyYou—it's so true. So true. What—what—do people who think the world's a simulation call the other people—non player characters? Is that right? You don't know this? I get you. You're out there. You're out in the woods. You know what? You're lucky you have the Internet. Does your—still, like, go boop boop boop when it turns on? Or—No. No? Okay. Whatever. It's not. I have, like, real deal Internet. Yeah. Get you. Now you're just bragging. Yeah. I just—I—think that those kind of those nebulous people that float through your life, it's—it's—okay if they—they—don't understand. I can—and I can also understand being disappointed if a parent or your sister or something like that isn't helping. But—Right. I—mean, maybe you could go to them and say, "I feel alone because of this. I really—it would mean a lot to me if you could just—if you could just learn a couple of little things. And is there something in your life that you'd feel good about if—if—I learn more about?"
Scott BennerLike, you know, is there a way we can both be, you know, this experience has made me realize that we need people and, you know, I'd like to be around for you more if I'm not. I—feel—like I'm doing this, but maybe that's not what you need. Is there something you'd prefer that I had knowledge about that would make you feel more comfortable around me and vice versa. I don't know. Like, depends on how far you wanna get into being a human being. You know? That is great advice. I—I—I—really like that, and I think I would use that with, like, a—a—person I have in mind. So—That's good. Yeah. They'll probably tie you a tree and smear maple syrup on you and let the bears eat you. But—Yeah. Yeah. Sounds great. And the bees. The bees.
BritneyThe bees too. What is that from? The bees. The bee. The bee. It's a Simpsons episode. The bees. The—bees. It's, like, 25 years old, but my reference. People are like, the way to reference a cartoon that was not our—that—i—i—i—have not been alive to hear. That's great, though. Anyway, find the episode of The Simpsons where mister Burns is yelling, "the bees." Is it mister Burns or is the system? I'm not a 100% sure, but the bees—the bees is, definitely worth looking into. Okay. I'll find it. My kids got into the Simpsons recently, so I don't know how appropriate it is for my eight year old to watch it, but he really likes it. I watched it, and I'm fine, mostly. Yeah. I feel like the same way. I think it's, like, 30 years old now.
BritneyYeah. I think you're right. Is it—the Simpsons celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2019. Oh my gosh. Wow. So it's 36 years old? Amazing. Alright, Britney. Do you know what television show the Simpsons first debuted on? It wasn't its own TV show. No. What—what—one? It was a sketch comedy show, and it was a little sketch that happened on—I'm giving you that's as—and that's as much as I'll tell you. Oh, why don't I get to know? Oh, alright. Fine. Was the Tracy Oldman show. Oh, okay. You don't even know what that is, do you? I've heard of it. That's awesome. I wish I was younger. Anyway, when you say here in your note that, you know, yes, I didn't know anything about diabetes even though I was a nurse, whatever. That's fine.
Career Shifts and Finding Purpose
Scott BennerMhmm. My eyes have been opening up about not just about the care, but about a career change. Like, what about diabetes has made you wanna change your career?
BritneyI love learning about it. I love all the tech. I—I—like, I'm in this—this—kind of silly job with workers' compensation that's a little bit boring, but it's really easy. But I think, I—I—mean, I would love to work for Dexcom, for Insulet. I don't know. I just feel like I need to go where my interest is, I love learning about diabetes, and I love being involved in it. And so at first I was thinking I want to be a diabetic educator, but I don't want to do that. And I'm thinking about nurse practitioner, but I also don't want to take out more student loans, so I don't know. I want to do something different. It's just hard to pull me away from, like, a very easy job right now that has a lot of flexibility that pays me well to take on, you know, loans or a pay cut, but it's just something I was thinking about. I think I gave you a lot of random notes in my notes.
Scott BennerIt's okay. I like your randomness. But is what you're telling me is that your son's diagnosis has maybe made you feel like your work life isn't purposeful enough?
BritneyOh, yeah. I mean, my work life is not purposeful, so I would love to have more of a purposeful work life, and I think that would be something involved in diabetes. What would stop you from looking into that? Oh, no. I look into it all the time. I just—I—guess, like, student loans, like, more schooling would be the biggest deterrent—or, like, a pay cut. And so—yeah. But just those things. Could you not do, like, some—I mean, you have your degree. Right? Could you not do some stuff, you know, in and around diabetes education and pile up your work hours that way?
BritneyI probably could. I also don't wanna go—I—I—like working from home. But you're like, "listen. I'd like to help people, but if I can do it from my house." Right? That's what I'm—that's what I'm going for. I mean, to—for me to drive, like, to the nearest hospital would be, a thirty five minute drive, and I've already worked there, you know, when I was in the ICU. And I don't know. I'm kind of looking for the perfect thing. But for the time being, I will just stay where I am, I guess. Do you stretch your legs online with that? Do you try to help people online? Is there a way you—you—feed that desire?
BritneyI guess. Like—so—I got into Trio, I guess, three or four months ago. Mhmm. And even though I'm new to that whole DIY looping, I love to, like, answer questions or, like, comment on things within that group. So I—I'm stretching my legs that way. Like, I'm interested in computers and—Very nice—Helping people navigate if I can. So—That's—that's—awesome. Getting it that way. Yeah. How long has your, son been using Trio?
BritneyJust three months—or, guess, November, December. Like, two and a half months, and it's been the most amazing thing that we've ever encountered with diabetes—Yeah—Next to your podcast. Oh, it's—for—I—I—i—find Trio to be awesome, personally. Yeah. Yeah. You listed as a one c—is it okay for me to say? Yeah. Five six. Is that right? Between five six and five nine since, after diagnosis.
Scott BennerWow. Okay. So what happened? He wasn't in DK when he was diagnosed, and then you kinda quickly figured out what put you in that range so early on, do you think? I mean, you had a little bit of, like, honeymooning at first. It helped you probably while you were figuring things out. But, like, if you had to say to somebody, "this is what I learned that stopped there from ever being confusion or high blood sugars that—you know, so much so that i had an a one c in the seven c eights." And I—think, what is it you think happened there? I know it's like a magic sauce for everybody, but what do you think it was for you?
BritneyI think that I was willing to keep trying. I guess what, like, what I said about the ice cream before, like—Mhmm—I could have one outcome that I didn't love and then try again a different way, like trying differently with timing and amount. And I think that I just wasn't afraid of insulin and that I learned to use insulin well. I think that's what it was. I mean, we were MDI for two months and then Omnipod five for nine months. And while I really liked Omnipod five, like, I was putting a lot of work into it. I was overriding the pump constantly. I was seeing the suggested bolus and kinda laughing at it being like, "no. Thank you. I'll do a little bit more." And I think just being flexible was was what allowed us to get these really good results.
Scott BennerOkay. That's awesome. It really is. Yeah. And you think that information came just out of, like, old beginnings in that series? Or— It really did. Yeah. I mean, there's a couple things that you said, like, you described, like, blood sugar on a football field maybe. Was—that—does that sound right? I mean, said a lot of Britney. I'm not sure. Or, like, maybe, like, if the football player is, like, running really fast, like, you might have to, like, push hard against it. Maybe—maybe that's a glucose tablet. And if it's, like, you know, drifting high, you're gonna give it a little bit of insulin. Or if it's running full speed high, you're gonna give it more insulin to help knock it down a little bit.
BritneyAnd I think that was all just conversations that I listened to you have during with bold beginnings, and and it was listening to that that allowed me to not say, "okay. Well, this is the two hour rule. He's had insulin in the last two hours. I need to wait longer." Mhmm. Like, no. If I saw a—a—huge spike, I said, "okay. Well, he needs more insulin. It's not stacking because he needs it. Like, we didn't give him enough up front, so let's give him a little bit more."
Equal Resistance and The Quarterback Metaphor
Scott BennerYeah. May I—for a minute, i'm gonna pontificate a little bit for half a second. Everybody settle in. So I feel like what you're telling me is that, basically, there's a—a—slew of t shirt slogan ideas that I've kinda, like, peppered into that stuff. Like, you know, "it's not—it's not—stacking if you need it." But the core idea of "meet resistance with an equal resistance" to keep things from moving away from where you want them to be—Right—That was foundational for you. So I think if I'm remembering correctly, it's also very interesting, by the way, that you—you—heard the story enough to understand it, but you don't have the details of it.
Scott BennerLike, I think I said, you know, "if your quarterback is getting sacked all the time—Right—You might need to keep in another lineman or a tight end to block a little bit because there's more force coming from the defense than your offense is able to resist." Yeah. And so try to think about that number and the insulin and the food as these two forces pushing each other back and forth off of a line and you're trying to stay on the line. So—That was definitely it. Not what I said. But I think it's beautiful that you didn't remember it exactly the way it was said because the idea there is—is that you don't—I—don't even think you live in Vermont. You don't even watch football, do you? I mean, I don't. My husband does. Yeah. Does. But what does he watch? The Patriots? Yeah. Or something like that. I—don't know. Mess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that's not what I'm saying.
Scott BennerWhat I'm saying is that, like, something that you didn't have full context for still made enough sense to you. Like, there's a line here. Some stuff is pushing up and some stuff is pushing down. And you know what? Once in a while, when it's pushing up, I gotta put more of the down stuff in even if it's not the right time because, obviously, I need to meet the need. Like, so what stuck to you was meet the need. Mhmm. It's not stacking if you need it. That's bolusing. Like, little ideas like that, and then you just synthesize them in your own life and apply them.
BritneyRight. That's exactly what it was. It was, like, using the technology but not relying on it. So, like, I think Omnipod five was great, but I couldn't rely on what it suggested all the time. Sometimes I had to override it or do something a little bit differently. So—Mhmm—Because of what I learned through the podcast. Sometimes you needed more blockers and it wasn't offering them to you, so you changed the play. Right. That's it. Yep. Exactly. Alright. Britney, are you here to say that people should just listen to me?
BritneyYeah. I think that's what they need to do. I'm gonna call my wife right now. Would you say that into the microphone at about thirty seconds? Please listen to Scott. Yeah. He has all the answers. I—by the way, i'm not—i don't care if anyone hears that except for Kelly because she will just come in and she'll be like, "listen to me. These people, they don't know you. If she lived with you, she wouldn't say that." That—that's—the second thing she would say. She's probably—she's probably—right. But no. I—mean, listen. In the end, i'm gonna bang this drum for as long as people are gonna listen to the podcast, I guess. Mhmm. It's all timing and amount.
Scott BennerYou need the right amount of insulin at the right time. That's it. You need to understand, you know, the impacts of your food. It's not all the same. One carb is not equal to the next. Not all the time. Yes. There are variables, and we're gonna wanna learn what they are along the way. But truth be told, if you attack most days with "put the right amount of insulin in the right place," that pretty much takes care of it. Yeah. I mean, that's—that's—all that it is. Like, every time I see somebody post a graph online, and they're like, "what happened here? Like, we went so high." It's like—okay. Well, you didn't use enough insulin or you didn't do it soon enough—or maybe you went low first, so it was too late. I don't know. I think you've simplified it with, like, timing and amount. That's what it is. So try again and just do—do—something differently.
The New Weight-Based Settings Calculator
Scott BennerYou even said something earlier about being flexible. And I thought, "oh, that's a nice idea." But what she's really saying is because I even hear your conversation in, "how could I distill it down more?" Right. But it's great that you understand it that way. I don't care how distilled or not it is for you. You have a thought and it works for you. That's all I want. Right. People should not listen to exactly what gets said and try to mimic it. They should listen to the bigger ideas and then apply them. Right. If they get lost, if it doesn't fit in their thinking, if they can't make sense of it, then you might have to, like, then you might have to just say, like, "well, i'm just gonna—i'm just gonna—believe what's being said here because i don't—i—i'm not synthesizing it to my thinking. So let's just use it like this." Mhmm. In the end, again, timing and amount, that's it. Just use the right amount of insulin at the right time. Does that sound super simple when it's not? It's not super simple. But it is if you realize that if your basal's right, if your insulin to carb ratio's right, if your insulin sensitivity is set up correctly, then guess what? Then that's a great starting place. And then it's a lot easier to bump and nudge these settings or your usage and get dialed in a little bit.
Scott BennerI can't even share this with you yet because I haven't even settled on the URL that it's gonna go on, but I think I've decided to share something. And so I'm—I'm—not a coder, Britney. There's a lot I don't understand. We can make a very long list of things that we don't—that I don't—understand. Okay? But I know how I think about diabetes. And, you know, you stop and listen to all these companies, you know, "we're gonna put out a system one day. You're just gonna put your weight in it and it's gonna do the rest." Right? That's eyelet cell right now. Right? You just—you—you—turn that thing on and you put your weight in and go. So you think what? The magic box knows from my weight. It's actually not magic at all. Right? So I made a calculator, okay, that you put your weight in the top, And it's going to give you starting spots for total daily dose for basal rate, for insulin to carb ratio, for sensitivity factor just by plugging in your weight.
Scott BennerSo I'm just gonna put in—I'm gonna put in a weight of a hundred and fifty pounds. That's it. It's all—it's all—done already, by the way. I typed one fifty, the whole calculator populated. It converts your weight into kilograms to do other math. Okay? There's an episode called—there's three episodes called—the math behind, the math behind insulin sensitivity, behind correction factor, behind basal. It would explain all that to you. But this thing says, okay. Hundred and fifty pounds, that's sixty eight point two kilograms. Here's what I know from that now. Your total daily insulin is about 37. Now that's if you choose a factor of point five five or a standard or moderate factor. Right? But this thing gives you the opportunity to say, "you know what? I'm more sensitive. I'm more resistant. I'm highly resistant." You just click on those things and it changes it for you. If you say I'm highly sensitive, it drops that to thirty point seven units a day. If you say I'm highly resistant, it puts it up all the way to sixty one point four units a day. It isn't telling you that's exactly how much insulin you're gonna use. It's telling you that based on your weight, this is—this—is what we can maybe expect. You know, be careful. Also, these are the formulas that your doctor uses when they try to figure out your basal rate in the beginning, when they try to figure out your sensitivity factor in the beginning.
Scott BennerSo anyway, I choose standard moderate—thirty seven and a half units a day is the estimated total daily dose, which is just sixty eight point two kilograms times point five five. That tells you that your calculated basal rate is about eighteen point seven five units a day or about point seven eight units an hour if you're using a pump. Keep scrolling down. Your insulin to carb ratio may be about 13.3. That's using the standard 500 rule. One unit covers 13.3 grams. If you go to the four fifty rule, which is more aggressive, it takes it to 12. There's a little drop down box there where you can make that decision for yourself. Your sensitivity factor at a 150 pounds, you know, at the 1,800 rule—48. One unit moves you about 48 points. You can—the little slider there, you can slide it a little bit one way or the other way, change the rule for the math. But—and are these numbers perfect for you? Definitely not gonna be. But— No. But they're a starting point for people and, like, a visual for people to see and understand.
Scott BennerYes. And then if you have a nice starting point, then you can say to yourself, "okay. Well, let's see how this works." And, you know, "if—oh, my basil's set the wrong way. My—you—know?" There's a little thing at the bottom here that says if your basil's set too low, your meal bolus will try to fill that hole of missing basil, and this makes carb ratios look wrong. Like, so it kinda gives you the idea of, like, know, if one thing's wrong, it's gonna make something else look wrong. Then it—it's—very clear. It says the math provides a starting line. You must perform basal testing, fasting periods to verify blood sugar, hold steady, like—and you have to click on a disclaimer to get into it. The thing's disclaimered out. Okay? That's perfect. I can't decide if I'm gonna put it online. I think I am. Well, why wouldn't you?
Scott BennerI—I—mean, because, like, you know, I—I—guess I'm okay. Like, I get—it—explains how the tool's built. Also, I want you to understand, it's not like I sat down and said, "I know this math. I'm gonna make this code do this thing." I just fed common ideas about how basal and everything else is figured out. You can find it anywhere on the Internet from hospital websites to, you know, all kinds of different places. And I don't know how to code it, so I basically built, like, three different calculators through something people call vibe coding, which, again—okay. Just understand—I—you go to, like, a large language model and you say, "look. Go learn everything you can learn about the, I don't know, the 1,800 rule for this and how people with type one diabetes would use it to get a starting point for this setting." It goes and looks at, a thousand different websites. It comes back and says, "this is the math. This is how it works. I understand it now." And I go, "okay. Can you build me a little embeddable calculator where people could figure that out for themselves?"
Scott BennerSo I made three separate calculators that all worked independently. And then I said, "is there not a way that we couldn't combine all these into one calculator and limit people's interactions so they could get this in?" And they said, "yeah. They could just put their weight in, and we could figure the whole thing out from that." And I was like, "cool. Make that." And then I used it and used it and used it and used it till I thought "this is working." And I'm not seeing any glitches, then I sent it to a friend and I said, "hey. Do you see anything here that doesn't look right?" They said there's one wording mistake right here. We made a little change. You know, sending out the five or six other people who have been using it. Seems to work for them okay. And, you know, that's it. But why do I bring all that up? I bring all that up because if you had your settings somewhere close to right and you understood—i'm gonna tell you that I think if you had that calculator and at the minimum, the small sip series from the podcast, I think you'd be off on a good way.
BritneyI think you're totally right. And I also think there's a lot of value to people who think they have their settings pretty good to use a calculator like that to see, you know, like, what's the next dial I might wanna turn to get things looking a little bit better. It may not prove true to you. Like, it might say, "oh, your daily basil is this." You might be like, "that's not right." Well, okay. That's good. Use your common sense and say "that doesn't sound right." Or if, you know, your daily basil right now is five units a day and the thing's telling you it's 12, I wouldn't go just yakking it up out of nowhere. Like—right? But, like, it might give you the idea of, like, "oh, I wonder if my basal's too weak. Like, is that a thing I could be looking at?" Is this another tool? Yeah.
Scott BennerCould I go ask my doctor? "Hey. You know, I found this calculator and it says this. How come my base"—and—and where does this all stem from? Everything I do on the podcast stems from some personal experience I've had. Right? Mhmm. But for this one specifically, when Arden was diagnosed, she was little. And I think her insulin sensitivity was like one to three fifty. Like, one unit moved her 350 points or something like that. And as she's growing and getting older and I'm figuring out that she needs more insulin and I'm really making more decisions upfront where I'm ignoring the settings and going more with the amount of insulin I see needed. Right? And things are working. So the doctor's like, "oh, things are working." You know, they never think about it again. One day—Right.
Scott BennerOne day I said—I swear to this—this, you know, person who just said all this to you, I go in the doctor's office. It's a couple years into it. I go, "what's the insulin sensitivity?" And they're like, "what?" And I'm like, "yeah. I don't really understand what that is." So I was a couple years into it. I didn't—I didn't—know what it meant. I—it—was to me, it was just a setting in her pump. I was like, "I don't under—like, this number hasn't moved since she was, like, four." Right. But you're moving every other number to try to make up for that. But I'm moving numbers all over the place trying to make up for it. But, like, I'm like, "what should this be?" And I remember the look of horror on the face of the person. They took the pump for me, and they looked and they went, "oh." And their face just said to me, "that number is nowhere near correct." Wow. And then I was like, "okay. I was like, where do you think it should be?" And they're like, "well, I—I—i'm not sure." And then they sat down and wrote some numbers on a piece of paper and gazinted a little bit and then moved it to another number. Mhmm. And now I realized that all they did was take the total daily insulin and her weight and a couple of other little ideas and rejiggered the numbers.
BritneyRight. Yeah. I mean, that's—but people—so people need that calculator. I mean, you think about people who start on, like, Omnipod five, and they're four months into diagnosis. And then, you know, six months later, they're like, "this pump doesn't work. Omnipod five is crap. I'm gonna go to Mobi instead." It's like—well, you probably need a hard reset of your pump with the right numbers for what you need now. Mhmm. And a calculator like that could be like, "hey. Let's reset your pump, and let's use these numbers and see if you're getting something better." No. It's—and—it's not crazy. Like, it really—and I just had a conversation like that with somebody recently. I think it motivated me more about the calculator. This person reached out and said the same thing. Like, "my—you—know, this automated system's not working for me and, you know, for my kid, and I think something's wrong." And I was like, "well, what are the settings?" He gave me the settings. I was like, "that doesn't sound right to me." Mhmm.
Scott BennerAnd then, you know, you realize that they, you know, they put those settings in, the kid on the pump, time has passed now, and the pump isn't doing what they needed to do. And, you know, I said, "well, I think you should go back into manual and try to, like, you know, reestablish some good settings." I said, "but you can't just do that. Those settings are way wrong." Mhmm. And that person did not know where to start, and I just said, "well, you know, let's take their weight and do this." They said, "oh, well, that—that—one number is way different than what they had." I said, "well, don't move it drastically. Like, just—yeah. Keep it in the back of your head. Start over again." You know? If you—it makes you more comfortable to call your doctor, call your doctor. Like, I—I—don't care. Like, you know, do—do—whatever makes you happy. But, like, don't wait three months for your next endo appointment that's gonna be twenty minutes long and expect all of these things to happen. Like, this is where people need to take some control of their own.
Scott BennerAnd—Yeah. Also, this—this—person is—is—out of their mind. They're not sleeping now. Right. If this goes on for two more months, then they go into a doctor's office. They're gonna sound like a raving lunatic. "I'm not sleeping—at the baby"—and then—yeah. Like—and—and the doctor's gonna be like, "oh, okay. I'm just trying to make it for lunch." No. No. You know, like, relax. They're gonna say, "well, well, you're getting low at 03:00. Why don't we turn your blah blah blah down at"—like—and that's not gonna help anything. Mhmm. Right? So—Well Anyway And I think this is also maybe a time when people are like, "oh, we have to do low carb because, like, the pump doesn't work with what we're eating, and we're told we can eat anything. We just have to dose for it." That's not true, so we have to do low carb. And low carb people, like, fine. Like, whatever works for you, but you don't have to be that. You just have to have better settings.
Scott BennerYou can take low carb out of it. Like, all the misconceptions start flying at you. Right. You know, like, "oh, the insulin must be bad. My sight's wrong." Right. I—you know, "the—I—don't—is it because i'm, you know, the phase of the moon? Is it"—you—know, like, I mean, you start seeing ghosts everywhere Right—And you can't figure out what's actually happening. Right. I just think that's a sad thing for people. Like, I'm not saying "plug your weight in and these numbers are gonna be exactly right. You know, pop them into your device or, you know, use your MDI this way, everything's gonna be hunky dory." But what I can tell you is—is—that it'll get you a lot closer than you are. Right.
Vibe Coding the Warsaw Method Calculator
Scott BennerAnd in that same vein, I—I—don't know if I have access to this one right now through a browser. I do. I also built—and—I—Jenny and I talked about it in an episode recently, so I guess I'm maybe gonna have to put it out in the world. I also built a—a—calculator that once you have those settings, okay—Mhmm—Take them and you drop them into this thing here. So insulin—the car—actually, do you know your kid's numbers off top of your head? Yeah. What's his carb ratio? In the morning, it's 18, and the rest of the day, it's, like, 34 to 36. Let's just say 18 and do a breakfast thing. Insulin sensitivity? Ish? Like, one twenty? One unit moves them a 120. Let's make the target blood sugar 90. I'm just filling in little boxes here. How many carbs are breakfast? Like, 60. Is there any fat in it? A little bit. Do you know how much? A few grams. A few grams. Let's say four. Is there protein in this thing? Yes. What? Do you know how much? Six grams. Mhmm. What's—what's—his current BG when he eats usually in the morning? Around, like, ninety two. Ninety two. Ninety three. Okay. Any insulin on board? Like, point four probably. Point four. And is his arrow—his trend arrow—usually stable, rising, or falling at that moment? Like—Stable. Okay. So—click button.
Scott BennerDoes 3.33 sound like about the bolus you would use in that situation? About the bolus? Yeah. Like, right around there, probably a little bit less, and then, like, the SMBs from Trio would take care of the rest Mhmm to take care of the rise. Yeah. Because I have my settings at, like, 80% of the recommended bolus, and then it kicks in over time. Okay. So if—if—I gave you that calculator and you didn't know what you were talking about and it told you at the end, "I would use a 3.33 unit bolus and wait about nine minutes to pre bolus," do you think that would go reasonably well for him? Yes. That's a calculator I made. Yeah. That's—that's—so helpful. That's what people need.
Scott BennerAnd trust me, something like that exists inside a—probably inside a—it—could exist inside of people's pumps. But if you don't know what you're doing, right, if you have no idea what you're doing and you sat down and said, "my kid weighs this much" and then took those numbers and moved it over into the other thing and said, "here's a meal I don't understand, you know, blah blah blah." And then it spit out 3.3 and you said to yourself, "oh god. I've been bolusing one and a half units for that." Right. Or—he gets low all the time and I bolus five units for that, but I don't pre bolus. Like, it would at least maybe, like, light a candle in your head and make you go, "Totally." You know? Yeah. Yeah. And by the way, we were to add more fat to this. Let's say that there was 15 grams of fat in this meal. Mhmm. I regenerated it. It now tells you to do a 3.33. Still wait the nine minutes, but it would like to see you do a point eight eight Warsaw wave.
Scott BennerBasically, like, it's a bolus for the fat and the protein in the meal, which would take the—the—total dose up to four point two two. It would like to see that that. So, basically, it's asking you to make a square wave or extended bolus over three hours of point eight eight. So three point three three up front with a point eight eight over three hours to deal with the fat. Mhmm. And it gives you little things at the end. You know, "insulin on board safety correction only subtracted. And there's something called ambiguity guard. The 10 to 70 range was checked, the Warsaw method is using one FPU." It discarded that because it's not touched. It's—it's—trying to show you how it's working a little bit. And trust me, as I'm talking here, I don't understand. But what I did do was teach it all about the Warsaw method and, like, let it go out. I sent it everything we had on the podcast. I sent it to websites that talk about it, three or four different places that talk about the math of the Warsaw method.
Scott BennerI did my best to make the large language model as much of an expert on the Warsaw method as I could, and then I asked it to combine it into this calculator. Maybe it's not right. I don't know. That's why, again, it has, you know, disclaimers all over it, and it's not—I haven't put it on the—on the—web yet. But what I can tell you is that there's a simple fat and protein calculator on the website now. Mhmm. Under guides, it's a fat and protein insulin calculator. It explains the Warsaw method in at—I—mean, it explains to the point where if you read all that, god bless you, because it's really broken down there. But at the end, it gives you four episodes where we talk about fat and protein that you can listen to if you want and a simple calculator to figure out the fat and protein and how you might use it. You have no idea how much email I get from educators out in the world who are like, "hey. Please, I keep sharing that link with people." That's awesome. Thank you very much. So—So—
BritneyYou know? I feel like the people who are going to that website or or using those calculators are people who are pretty proactive. But how do you get that into the hands of somebody who feels so—so—lost and isn't proactive about figuring it out? Like, what do you—how do you get—that—asked. You, being Scott, put your lazy ass on an airplane a bunch of times this year and go to a bunch of conferences where professional people are gonna be and stand around and banging the drum for telling people about this stuff. Yeah. And then, hopefully, it bleeds out into the world a little more because it does now. I mean, there are a lot of institutions that, you know, suggest the podcast to people. Right. And maybe my—honestly, my goal is I'm gonna stand at a table at a couple of professional conferences and talk to anybody who's willing to talk and tell them, "look. This is what I found talking to people. What would be wrong with showing them how to get their settings right and how to figure out maybe the impact of the fat and protein in their food because, i mean, really, that's what they're missing."
BritneyAnd do you think that, like, you could get that to maybe endocrinologist offices are—are—on top of it, and the educators that work there are on top of it, but is there a way to get into, like, primary care with people who are having their PCP manage their diabetes? Like, how do you get to them? Yeah. I—I—mean, listen. The only thing I've figured out about the Internet is that it—it—works at its own pace, and—Right—It—you don't know how it's working. So—Right—Word-of-mouth. All you have to do is help somebody and give them the confidence that the thing you told them was valuable and they will hopefully go tell somebody else about it. But other than that, there's no way. You can't—I've watched—I'll tell you what. It's a pretty big organization a lot—a—few years ago now, and they wanted to make a push for, you know, just a finger stick during with kids with flu symptoms. They tried really hard. I mean, they put a massive effort around it, put money and manpower, it didn't work. So—Yeah. I don't know how I'm supposed to go do that. So what I can do is I can help people—Right—To see the—you—know, what the bigger picture might be, hope that they, again, take the information, synthesize it for themselves, apply it to their own lives, have some success, and then it's been meaningful enough to them that they've—they'll—tell somebody else. Right. That's it. Yeah. Citizen—they call—I saw—I heard somebody call it citizen science recently. Oh. That's all fancy. I don't know what that means.
BritneyYeah. Okay. I like the sound of it. Yeah. Yeah. I just—you—you—gotta just try to help people, and hopefully, they'll try to help people. I think that really is a—I mean, you know, unless you wanna—you—know, I don't know. Can you imagine getting on the phone with a GP's office and saying, "hey. Do you have a lot of type, you know, ones in there that, you know, should be going to an endo, but they're coming to you instead and their a one c is 10? I think I could help them." And they're gonna be like, "goodbye." And, you—you—know, like, it's—what—do— I guess, like, I started listening to the ADA twenty twenty six episode this morning. Oh. And you were talking a lot about your friend Mike. And I'm thinking, like, "how do you get it to his doctor? Like, how do you—how—do you infiltrate those people who aren't getting what they need and having"—I don't know. I'm—I—just, like—I wish Mike's doctor had that information and shared it with him. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. I—appreciate that. I—I—yeah. I don't know the answer to that one, Britney. Yeah. World's not a perfect place. So—No. Yeah. Thank you. I think this is good place to stop, but I do wanna check to see if you have anything else that you wanna say or anything I missed that I should have brought up.
Self-Trust and Conclusion
BritneyNo. I don't think so. I mean, I hope that you can get something helpful out of this podcast. Or— Don't do that, Britney. Don't do that. Okay. Okay. Just say "I was awesome, and my conversation spurred on other good conversations, Scott. And you're fantastic, and I'm fantastic, and let's be done." It's all good. I'm proud of myself for doing this and—Good—I thank you for your time. Don't doubt yourself. Okay. I won't. I said somewhere recently, somebody called me—what—did they call me? Forget what it was. Egotistical. I forget. Does it sound egotistical that I forget what they call me? Whatever. No. No. Yeah. It does a little. Somebody said something about that about—and—I—and—I said, "look. I—I—don't know what happened to you in the past that didn't allow you to trust yourself as much as I trust myself, but i'm sorry for you." Mhmm. Also, it doesn't make me egotistical. Right.
Scott BennerI've explained 17 different ways in this conversation—I don't know what I'm talking about. I might not be right. If you're looking for absolutes, don't look to me. The disclaimer literally says, "this tool is for educational purposes only. The results are mathematical estimations that do not constitute medical advice. Please read our full disclaimer." If you click on that full disclaimer, here's what that disclaimer says about 20 different ways: "If I was you, I wouldn't listen to me. Okay?" But I'm still talking. Do what you want with it. I don't know what happened to me that I say, "look, i'm sharing how i feel and i'm not making any claims about it." And—but—what happened to you that makes you go like—"I'm sorry. I hope I shared something today that was maybe valuable." Hopefully, you can cobble together eight minutes out of this that, you know, like, that if I was you, I'd go figure out what that is. Right. Okay. I will. Trust yourself. Have you ever hurt anybody on purpose? What—I—don't know what you mean by that. You—have you ever, like, have you ever, like, maliciously hurt someone? Like, eavesdropped? No. Like, you know, like, like—i'm sorry. I'm not following. I think that answer answers my question. Okay.
Scott BennerDo you lie, as a regular, like, part of your life? Are you a big liar? No. No? Okay. And you don't—No—You don't—you—you—wouldn't—you—wouldn't screw somebody over to get $20 from them? Oh my god. No. No? Then—No—Then—okay. Then—what—do—you—what—do you think you're not doing then? I don't know, but I'm gonna start doing what I'm not doing. Do have an ethos, like, how you live? Not really. I—I—guess I just try to be kind to do the right thing, and I try to hold space for other people and listen to people and be helpful. I have—I—have literally two sentences I run my whole life with. What's that? I try to treat people the way I wanna be treated. Mhmm. And I don't lie unless I have to. Right. That's it. I agree with both of those things. Yeah. That's pretty much it. And what—what—would constitute having to lie? I don't know. Maybe the zombies are coming, and, I got a steak, and, my kids are hungry. And you ask me if you, if I got a steak, and I go, "no. No steak." Yeah. I can get on board with that.
Scott BennerYeah. But if—if—I had a steak and, there were no zombies and you said, "hey. Can I have some steak?" I'd be like, "yeah. Goddamn right. Let's have some steak together." Yeah. Yeah. Right. So, that's pretty much it. Like, I don't screw people over on, on purpose. I'm sure I've done things in the past that have not been, you know, good for other people. It wasn't on purpose, and it wasn't through ignorance. Like, if it happened, it was—it was—completely benign on my part. I don't run around screwing people over. I don't use my powers for evil. I've settled on here a million times. I don't know if you've heard it. "If I was a bad person, you'd know it because I'd have a lot more money, and I wouldn't be helping people with diabetes." Right. I would be one of those people who looks at the world and goes, "What can I extract out of this for me?" Mhmm. And instead, I say, based on those two sentences, I'd like to help other people if I can make a reasonable living at it and take care of my kids. So I have found a way to do that. I—again, if I was a lawyer or something like that, oh my god. You people would be in so much trouble. Or if I decided to start a cult— Yeah. I'd be having sex with your wives, and you'd be sending money to my account every day. What do think of that? You'd be—you'd—be an incredible cult leader. Thank you. I would be an incredible cult leader. I take that as a compliment, by the way. I just wanna say thank you. I really do. You should.
Scott BennerI'm gonna walk around all day thinking that. Listen. I have no inclinations like that. Like, none whatsoever, but there are people who do. You know what I mean? And you're not one of them. So don't question yourself when you're, I don't know, purporting who you are. You're a good person. I'm not gonna—I'm—not gonna question myself. Yeah. What should we call this episode? Oh, I don't know. Really? We wanna get rid of the cat. I don't know. Oh. The cat's peeing on the floor. That was so long ago with the cat peeing on the floor. It was. It was. Can I tell you something? If it had more to do with it, I love your son's statement. "Someone peed on my bed." I got—somebody just peed on my bed. "Somebody peed on my bed." I don't know what's going on here. Like, do people not lock the door? Like, what—Right—I'm counting on you guys, and—and—I got a guy in here peed on my bed. "Someone peed on my bed" is just strong title cost ability. I also like "the bees" for some reason. Okay. The bees work. The bees. The bees. But that's only because I know the episode. So— I'll know the episode later. I'll—I'll—watch it. I'm going "somebody peed on my bed." Yeah. Because metaphorically, someone peed on your bed. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Britney, you're awesome. I feel like we could be friends. Well, thank you. I feel like we could be friends too. As long as there's air conditioning. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. There is. There is. I have AC. Is it—wait. Is there a real air conditioner? Like, it's outside. It's a big unit. It's hooked to a vent. No. It's not like—Is it jammed on a window? Central air. Oh my god. No. I don't have that. I don't have central air. I have, like, a heat pump that also functions for, like, AC and cooling. It doesn't sound like air conditioning. Can you get it down to a crisp 67 in that house? Yes. I can. It cuts all the humidity. Alright. Actually— It's great.
Scott BennerThe—the—reason most people don't have—or have it in the past had—air conditioning in Vermont as well, it is cold there most of the year. And even in the really hot months, it's more about humidity than heat. Right? Right. Yeah. Right. So if you cut the humidity, it's so comfortable and it's, like, lovely in here. Yeah. But still overnight with the humidity, I don't love it for the sleeping. No. God. No. I don't either. That's why we have the heat pump that gets rid of the humidity. I know there's lot of problems in the world, I should probably be focusing on one of those. But I just wanna tell you that, if I was lucky enough to be born somewhere with air conditioning, I'm not going backwards. So—Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's—Fair enough. My god. Alright, Britney. You're awesome. Hold on one second for me. Okay.
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