Steven_T1D
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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. Stupid, I know, but it happens I guess and after the episode of DKA below, thankfully I'm back on top of it all again.
At the end of April, I started feeling sick and wasn't able to eat dinner and shortly after started vomiting. A couple of non-diabetic people I knew were getting a stomach bug around the same time and it would pass after a day or 2, so I naively thought it would be the same for me.
2 days passed and I still had basically eaten nothing and threw up more than I care to remember, but I was starting to feel a bit better - or in hindsight, maybe I was just lying to myself. The next morning I woke up bent over with severe pains in my stomach and gave in and rang the doctor. An hour or so later I was with the GP getting checked over. This was where it all starts getting vague for the next day or so.
After the GP took my bloods, she was straight on to the phone for an ambulance, and I was sent to A&E. My blood glucose was 29mmol/L. I vaguely remember speaking to the paramedics and getting loaded in to the ambulance but not much of the journey. Then when I got to A&E I was straight in to a room and hooked up to lines and pipes every which way. By this stage my blood glucose reading was 32.8mmol/L.
A few hours go by but all I really remember about them is I wasn't allowed to drink fluids and my mouth and lips where painfully dry. My Glucose readings were still in the high 20s and low 30s and didn't seem like budging, so I had to get even more lines in, this time in my neck, and then they moved me to ICU.
The rest of the day is a blur, everytime I shut my eyes, an hour seemed to pass and that night was a rough one. I had some pretty awful hallucinations or visions, and these still freak the absolute life out of me when I think about them- not sure if this is normal for DKA?
Thankfully after a rough night, when I woke up the next morning my blood sugar levels were finally down to the low 20s and high teens. And by lunchtime they were almost back in range, but I still had a lot of Ketones that I needed to get rid of, which took until that night to eventually ****** off. Then I got moved to a general ward.
Few days of waiting to see a doctor and then getting my long acting insulin changed to Tresiba, and I eventually got out and I'm back on top of it all again. Also due to see my Endo again in July and I'm hoping that they will approve a CGM (It's a mission to get one funded through the HSE here in Ireland and I can't afford it on my own)
At the end of April, I started feeling sick and wasn't able to eat dinner and shortly after started vomiting. A couple of non-diabetic people I knew were getting a stomach bug around the same time and it would pass after a day or 2, so I naively thought it would be the same for me.
2 days passed and I still had basically eaten nothing and threw up more than I care to remember, but I was starting to feel a bit better - or in hindsight, maybe I was just lying to myself. The next morning I woke up bent over with severe pains in my stomach and gave in and rang the doctor. An hour or so later I was with the GP getting checked over. This was where it all starts getting vague for the next day or so.
After the GP took my bloods, she was straight on to the phone for an ambulance, and I was sent to A&E. My blood glucose was 29mmol/L. I vaguely remember speaking to the paramedics and getting loaded in to the ambulance but not much of the journey. Then when I got to A&E I was straight in to a room and hooked up to lines and pipes every which way. By this stage my blood glucose reading was 32.8mmol/L.
A few hours go by but all I really remember about them is I wasn't allowed to drink fluids and my mouth and lips where painfully dry. My Glucose readings were still in the high 20s and low 30s and didn't seem like budging, so I had to get even more lines in, this time in my neck, and then they moved me to ICU.
The rest of the day is a blur, everytime I shut my eyes, an hour seemed to pass and that night was a rough one. I had some pretty awful hallucinations or visions, and these still freak the absolute life out of me when I think about them- not sure if this is normal for DKA?
Thankfully after a rough night, when I woke up the next morning my blood sugar levels were finally down to the low 20s and high teens. And by lunchtime they were almost back in range, but I still had a lot of Ketones that I needed to get rid of, which took until that night to eventually ****** off. Then I got moved to a general ward.
Few days of waiting to see a doctor and then getting my long acting insulin changed to Tresiba, and I eventually got out and I'm back on top of it all again. Also due to see my Endo again in July and I'm hoping that they will approve a CGM (It's a mission to get one funded through the HSE here in Ireland and I can't afford it on my own)
may I ask, did you stop injecting altogether in the lead up or just intermittent? I have never had DKA but don’t take care of my db as I should, just wondering how neglectful I need to avoid being, very interesting to read a first hand account, I’m sure this will kick me up the back side and maybe will make others like me think, well done, who knows how many your post could potentially help. Thanks for sharing.
