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What's the highest you've been?

visitorf1 said:
how would one know if they should be on insulin or not ? doc wont give me straight answer when i asked was it my liver producing too much glucose or pancreas not producing enough insulin or insulin resistance ,he replied : a bit of both , not very reassuring .
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I asked this question the other day as I am still have swings Hi, but nowhere near the 22.7 I had been getting. My GP practice said they don't put one on insulin until all other medications fail to bring the BS under control.

I thought it might be better to be on insulin as maybe it might be easier to control the BS and not have such swings.
 
Was over 40 on a DKA when admitted to hospital when first diagnosed in Jan this year. Don't remember much if any of the 3 days after that except that there seemed to be a really helpful gorilla on the first ward I was on who pointed the way for people. Shows how these things mess with the mind.....unless this is a new job creation scheme for apes. ;-)

TJ

New Type 1


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garythegob said:
Mbmdp said:
My highest was 32!

The lowest I've been is 6.8 (very strange feeling) especially since up until recently I was always in the 20's


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If you are talking mmol, Dont know why you were feeling strange, 6.8 is spot on

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That's because I'm so used to running so high (high 20's) so when my levels are lower than say 10 I'm not used to it


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88.0 mmol in July 1989.
This was a lab reading and not from a little blood sugar meter.

You are probably wondering how I let it get so high.

I was away from home at the time, because I had been kicked out at the age of 16 by my foster parents who refused to let me come home because I had failed my school exams. Then all hell broke loose when I had become infected with a throat infection, and needed antibiotics. I could not see a GP where I was staying as none of them would see me because I was not regisitered with them. I don't blame GPs for this incidently. I was in a diabetic coma, in intensive care and aparantly this was the highest blood sugar ever recorded at two hospitals.

Glad to say I survived, the foster parents are history as I cut off contact with them to protect any children I may have in the future.

I am now on a pump and have good control.
 
37 twelve days ago at diagnosis. Was recovering from severe acute pancreatitis and thought I had escaped complications but my pancreas stopped producing insulin so I was back in hospital on an insulin drip. Am now injecting four times a day.


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When I was diagnosed with a reading of 12+ my doctor said, "Don't be alarmed, we regularly have first-timers reading 50 or over. I have even heard of one case where the reading was 200!!!"

MCMLXX111 - tell me what 'Fenugreek' is please.
 
Mine has been mid to high 30s a few times but now seem to have settled down :thumbup: . It is quite frightening though when you're sight starts going!
 
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