dka

Hello all! This is my first post and really I’m just wanting to share my story, see if there is anyone on here who has a similar story to mine or has any ideas which might help. It’s a bit of a story but I’ll try and keep it shortish! I’m 37 now but was 32 when I moved across the country and...

Hi all, this is my first post on here and honestly not sure why or what I'm hoping to achieve with it, but I feel like I need to get it off my chest and share it. For the past few months I've been suffering with diabetes burnout and generally not looking after my diabetes as well as I used to...

Hi, I self-diagnosed high blood sugar about 8 years ago after a period of steadily losing weight. I was able to get my blood sugar under control by switching to a low-carb diet, but over the years my levels have been gradually increasing. I've made my diet stricter (it's very extreme now...

Hi, I have been having good and bad days, i stopped my keto diet around a month or so ago and strated reintroducing carbs- i actually think i'm allergic to them, anyhow, been feeling strange and decided to buy myself a ketone meter, it is a glucomen areo2k.. well i only had two test strips with...

Yesterday I crashed. Big time. After my fab results last month (holding steady at 40), my GP thought it was a good idea to reduce my meds again (after halving my Metformin at Christmas from 1g x 2 to 500mg x 2 within a week of me seeing my Endo Consultant who said to stay on the same dose, she...

Hello, has anybody tried the Ketogenic Diet as a type 1 diabetic? I have been managing my blood sugar levels very well since starting the diet on Monday, and my blood sugars have not gone over 10.5, and I have also been taking less rapid insulin (around 2-3 units per day, today I have taken none...

So ketones... If someones ketones are up and down for few weeks from 0.2 to 4.2 mmol/l and is thirsty, tired and sometimes nauseous could they be in dka? What should they do?

Do ketones always present with high blood sugar? I’m not quite sure how it works as sometimes when I have high sugars and I test, my ketones are in the normal range (I’m type 1), can someone help me understand? Can diet, amount of water you drink etc keep ketones low even if your sugars are...

I've been type 1 diabetic for 7 years now with decent control over my sugars. My average A1C is 7-7.5, recently I had some issues with insulin pump failure causing my sugars to go high for 2 days straight. Well that was enough to send my into DKA. Was in the hospital for two days. That was a...

This May sound like a daft question but can you ask your gp to be tested for DKA?

Breakfast was two coffees with cream, and I drove to the shops intending to eat my first food around 11:30-12:00. I started to feel dizzy, then hot but didn't worry unduly. However I barely made it to the carpark as the world started spinning. Really badly. Closing my eyes didn't really help. I...

Hello everyone. My story in brief: - missed diagnosis of diabetes. Still unsure what type I have - last blood test hba1c - 106 - average finger tests - 18mmol - still not had an appointment to discuss with dr the results, so no medication On Friday, from absolutely nowhere, I suddenly...

Hi people, I have one stupid question: if the blood sugar is more than 15 for like 3-4 Hrs should one go to the hospital or try to "correct" it at home? Sometimes correction takes time, it does not work immediately and/or sometimes the cannula has to be changed. When is the turning point when...

Good morning team Quick question on a type of DKA: does anyone have any information, experience or reliable sources of information on Euglycemic DKA? (which is mentioned on the DKA page of diabetes.co.uk, but I can't seem to find any substantial info online on this) As a way of background, I...

Hi guys... Had an x-ray a few weeks back and something was found on a lymph node in my lung due to have a CAT scan today for further clarification and GP has advised that it may be some sort of Calcification around some scarring in my lung. Only thing I can think of is when I was diagnosed 2...

Hi, I just wanted to know if it was possible to go in to DKA with Type 2 diabetes and if anybody had ever experienced it? I am being treated as Type 1 at the moment after going in to DKA but I'm still waiting for the antibodies test so was wondering if it could still be possible that I'm...

Hi, so I'm a little bit stuck and not to sure were to turn to. I'm 20years old and I'm killing myself. I have type 1 diabetes and have done for about 11 years. Over the past 6 years or so I've had more hospital admissions than I can remember, it started with using my insulin trying to overdose...

I've struggled for over a decade now with anorexia, binge eating, bulimia for the last 6ish years my diabulimia has got worse and worse. It has torn apart my mental health I now have diagnosis of Cyclothymia (just below bipolar) Borderline Personality Disorder Depression Managed to train to...

Just wanted to bring this little known disorder up as it can affect diabetics who are critically ill and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit in hospital for treatment. In 2012 I spent a month in ICU (induced coma and ventilated) and my total hospital stay was 9 weeks. The mental symptoms on...

Hi! Four weeks ago I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes after being rushed to hospital experiencing laboured breathing... turned out to be DKA. There is no diabetes in my family at all, so this has come as a massive shock, I barely even knew what diabetes was before. The main reason I've...