Thank you to everyone who stayed close with help and advice while my mom was running high. She ran from 350 - 512 for about 3 days then on morning i first wrote she woke up at 400 with slurred sporadic speech, extreme weakness, and very disoriented. Your advice to get her to hospital was spot on. Turns out she had an infection and was immediately given two doses of strong antibiotic through iv, along with iv fluids. After day and half in hospital level came down to low 200 and we brought her home at 10pm last night. She was given info on diet and told no more than 40 carbs per meal. Before this incident she never paid attention to carb.intake, only sugar.
I would like some feedback if anyone has thoughts or knowledge on the subject. .... the last year of my brother's life (he was juvenile diabetic type 1 as compared to my mom who is considered type 1 because of brittle diagnosis) he fought hard every day to keep sugar levels as close to low 200's as possible, but inevitably would get to where he was in hospital one week each month for iv insulin to bring levels down. This continued for year until end. My question is...when my brother would go on he was immediately put on iv insulin and usually ended up staying 5 days before levels were under control. When my mom went in just 3 days ago, they immediately did iv fluids, but never once did the doctors even talk about using iv insulin. They just treated the infection and did not seem concerned at all that sugar levels stayed high 200's - 360 while being treated . in fact i had to show them the sliding scale for number of insulin units avcording to each blood reading. It's been a year since my brother's experience, but have ideas changed about how to treat high levels? When she went in with dka in august she was treated with iv insulin whereas my brother was always treated with iv even though not dka. Any ideas?
Thanks again for this forum and all the help and concern.