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- Gastroparesis
Hello I’m non insulin dependant and take no medication. In the past 10 months I’ve been in ketoacidosis twice.
I was wondering is there anyway to manage mild ketoacidosis at home and if not what do you do in the mean time before you can get to hospital to make yourself feel better when you’re too nauseated to eat/drink yet all you can think about is how thirsty you are and how tiring lifting your head is kind of thing?
I’ve tried taking Ondansetron and domperidone for the nausea but it does nothing
The first time it was clearly starvation ketoacidosis; BGL 1.7 blood ketones 7.2
Just under 2 weeks ago I went into ketoacidosis again.
BGL 3.2 in triage Ketones 3.2
But that time round initially the glucose drip brought my ketones almost to normal levels and started to reduce the acidosis so I felt less nauseated and could eat some of the sandwich and juice they gave me however as I went mildly hyper my ketones went back up to 5.9! So they aren’t sure if it was purely SKA since I was also hyper when I first started producing ketones then since I left it so long I went hypo from not eating from the nausea. I was also incredibly dehydrated to the point my kidneys weren’t producing urine in the ED even after 2+L of aggressive fluid resuscitation.
I think I might be going into ketoacidosis again. At first my BGL was high end of normal when I started producing ketones over 1. Now my ketones are sitting between 5.5-6.5, my BGL 2.5 - 5.2.
I don’t want to go to hospital I feel like I’m wasting their time and since I’m skinny they always think I have an eating disorder (I have gastroparesis that makes me underweight).
Sorry I don’t know where I’m going with this but any advice/experiences with ketoacidosis and making the symptoms less awful is much appreciated.
I was wondering is there anyway to manage mild ketoacidosis at home and if not what do you do in the mean time before you can get to hospital to make yourself feel better when you’re too nauseated to eat/drink yet all you can think about is how thirsty you are and how tiring lifting your head is kind of thing?
I’ve tried taking Ondansetron and domperidone for the nausea but it does nothing
The first time it was clearly starvation ketoacidosis; BGL 1.7 blood ketones 7.2
Just under 2 weeks ago I went into ketoacidosis again.
BGL 3.2 in triage Ketones 3.2
But that time round initially the glucose drip brought my ketones almost to normal levels and started to reduce the acidosis so I felt less nauseated and could eat some of the sandwich and juice they gave me however as I went mildly hyper my ketones went back up to 5.9! So they aren’t sure if it was purely SKA since I was also hyper when I first started producing ketones then since I left it so long I went hypo from not eating from the nausea. I was also incredibly dehydrated to the point my kidneys weren’t producing urine in the ED even after 2+L of aggressive fluid resuscitation.
I think I might be going into ketoacidosis again. At first my BGL was high end of normal when I started producing ketones over 1. Now my ketones are sitting between 5.5-6.5, my BGL 2.5 - 5.2.
I don’t want to go to hospital I feel like I’m wasting their time and since I’m skinny they always think I have an eating disorder (I have gastroparesis that makes me underweight).
Sorry I don’t know where I’m going with this but any advice/experiences with ketoacidosis and making the symptoms less awful is much appreciated.