For people living with type 1 diabetes, fear has long occupied the space where intimacy should be — a quiet, unspoken anxiety that sex might trigger a dangerous drop in blood sugar. A new study presented in Milan is the first to actually measure what happens, tracking 110 sexual encounters across 12 patients and finding no clinically significant hypoglycemia in any of them. The research, born from the simple act of asking patients what they feared, offers something medicine rarely delivers so directly: permission to stop being afraid.
Study: Sexual activity safe for type 1 diabetes patients using glucose monitors
Fear of hypoglycemia during sexual activity adversely affects intimacy and quality of life for people with type 1 diabetes.