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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mep" data-source="post: 1109952" data-attributes="member: 211362"><p>You should be right I'd imagine.  the only exception would probably be if you're type 2 like me with hardly any insulin being produced (that's why I'm on insulin after a really low reading in my c-peptide test result).  I was in ER last night and got told I had ketones and therefore I had to eat.  So if I had sufficient insulin this probably wouldn't be a problem I would think (although I do recall years back being on diamicron & metformin and being told to eat in hospital before when they found ketones... maybe it is the sick thing that makes it different).  But on saying that my sugar wasn't super high, just on 9.6 after not eating for 12 hours.... so yeh high for me considering as normally I would've had a hypo by that time.  But doc discussed what I was going to eat and made me promise to do it basically because she said otherwise I'd wind up back in ER with the DKA.   But then I got asked last night if I have ketosticks to test my urine for ketones at home... I said no.  I did try buying them here and couldn't find any.  I will have to keep looking as I suppose I should be more careful these days.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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