What is the highest blood glucose level ever recorded?

[bob-b]

Highest was 450
Lowest 14

 

[kevin55]

Following in my 'highest ever' posts... I also wondered if anyone knew what the highest blood glucose level ever recorded was? I've heard of some pretty scary numbers and was curious! xx

Hi all, my bg level has been as high as (HI) read by my own meter , the hospital got same on their meter in A & E a proper blood test read 56. obviously was admited. That was 10+ yrs ago now but I hav gone a couple of months at a time when the only reading I can get is HI.

 

[kevin55]

Highest was 450
Lowest 14

Shorely @ 450 you would be dead !!!!!

 

[bob-b]

I had such highs when i had just started on insulin
After starting insulin the highest i went was around 320

 

[phoenix]

Shorely @ 450 you would be dead !!!!!

not if it was in mg/dl
450mg/dl= 25mmol/l

 

[bob-b]

not if it was in mg/dl
450mg/dl= 25mmol/l

Haha yeah that's what I meant! Sorry for not providing specific units..

 

[Melissa.coleman]

I have only had one reading above 33.3 when it said hi... Scared the **** out of me... Lowest has been 2.6


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[AlexMBrennan]

25 mmol/l when they measured it when I got diagnosed & admitted to ICU with DKA. According to the nurses, the highest they've had was 99 mmol/l - un diagnosed diabetic who tried to fix his low energy by drinking lots of Lucozade.

 

[jpflanagan]

I was diagnosed at 23 years old at around 44...didn't feel massively fantastic at the time

Doctor reassured me and said you are half way to a coma....!

 

[rachel162]

Highest I remember being is five or six years ago when I was still on MDI (I'm on a pump now), got a sickness bug and was advised by a doctor of all people not to do any insulin, not even my long acting. I ended up with a week in hospital unconscious, but I only made it into the 40s, that was horrific enough! I tend to run lower rather than higher which is maybe why it hit me so hard...
And I was only 2 years old when I was diagnosed so don't remember my diagnosis level

 

[Lampet77]

Mine was 21 at diagnosis. Touch wood I've never been ill in my 15 years that has meant I can't eat/test/inject myself though with colds and things I can sometimes get into the early 20s.

Some of your stories make me feel really lucky. Hope you all recovered.

 

[4ratbags]

My highest that I know of was 26 and that was bad enough, it put me in A&E, stuff being in the 100's.

 

[Nyxks]

Highest mmol 23.5
lowest mmol 1.6
Didn't know either one until I tested, being unaware is annoying

 

[Nyxks]

Was diagnosed through a Glucose Tolerance Test that my OBGYN had ordered, she was thinking T2 at best basic insulin resistance T1 was not the expected result. No idea what the number was, all I know is I felt fine/normal n they kept asking how I was feeling finally was given insulin to bring me down because I was going higher and higher .

 

[ButtterflyLady]

I know of someone who had a BG in the 70s at diagnosis and spent a couple of days in the ICU. He had been quenching his thirst with cartons of juice while refusing his poor wife's attempts at persuading him to go to hospital. His father had already died from diabetic kidney failure after having both legs amputated. Denial runs very deep in some people.

 

[1954jessy]

I'm confused. My nurse told me my reading was 52 from 48. 48 being normal

 

[13lizanne]

Was that not a 52 HbA1c result the nurse gave you? This is a test which gives you your blood glucose levels over the past three months. Or was it a reading of 5.2 (and 4.8 ) she was referring to perhaps?

 

[azure]

I'm confused. My nurse told me my reading was 52 from 48. 48 being normal

Sounds like an HbA1C to me (which is different).

 

[Kristin251]

550 at dignosis. Happy to be alive and never in a coma

 

[Pura Vida]

Highest 12.1 buffet meal pig out
lowest 4.8