Why would anyone go to A&E with just high bg?

[ne0h]

I understand that people should go to A&E if and only if they are genuinely ill. For example if someone has been poisoned or something like that. But i just dont get why people with just a high blood sugar reading would feel the need to sit for 5 hours in A&E. After all what can the Dr do? Its just a waste of time and a bit on the hypercondriac side for someone to do this.

Have you or anyone you know done this? What was the outcome?

I have had high bg readings in the past and i would never even think of going to A&E.

 

[paul-1976]

Google Ketoacidosis

 

[ne0h]

Google Ketoacidosis

Yes but its not an emergency is it.

 

[catherinecherub]

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-complications/hyperglycaemic-hyperosmolar-nonketotic-coma.html

 

[paul-1976]

Yes but its not an emergency is it.

Of course it is!! I reckon you're pulling our plonkers here after reading your other thread about how you drank too much booze and have a hangover and don't understand why!

 

[ne0h]

Of course it is!! I reckon you're pulling our plonkers here after reading your other thread about how you drank too much booze and have a hangover and don't understand why!

if high bg is an emergency i have sat through months in a critical state.

 

[Hooked]

Yes but its not an emergency is it.

I nearly died of it when I was younger. Ended up with a drip into a vein on my neck as they couldn't get a vein anywhere else as my body was shutting down and a crash cart next to my bed that night. There was a lot of hospital staff working to keep me alive that night.

 

[mo1905]

if high bg is an emergency i have sat through months in a critical state.

It's not just the high BG levels. Google DKA then come back and comment. It's a life threatening emergency.

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[Ambersilva]

if high bg is an emergency i have sat through months in a critical state.

DKA is a very dangerous life-threatening condition. People with untreated DKA have died before receiving treatment. I told you in another thread about a lady who thought that the higher the blood sugar the better it was. She died in a sudden and catastrophic way.

 

[carty]

Are you for real?

 

[bonus]

Ive had many high readings in my time just like all the other members on here but still im fine, i just correct with insulin. If your 'normal' and have a high BG reading a few hours after eating or drinking on several occasions and have a few of the early symptoms then YES a would got to A & E, but not just for high BG reading.

 

[ne0h]

Are you for real?

I must be built different from other people as - like I keep saying - I have had my blood sugar through the roof and I did not go running to my Dr let alone A&E. So I suppose I am unreal?

A lot of people over react to a lot of things.

 

[mo1905]

I must be built different from other people as - like I keep saying - I have had my blood sugar through the roof and I did not go running to my Dr let alone A&E. So I suppose I am unreal?

A lot of people over react to a lot of things.

You are not listening are you. It's not high BG levels that are life threatening, it's high levels of ketones which can lead to DKA. Not sure if you are trying to provoke a reaction or not but please refrain from posting about something you clearly don't fully understand.

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[paul-1976]

I must be built different from other people as - like I keep saying - I have had my blood sugar through the roof and I did not go running to my Dr let alone A&E. So I suppose I am unreal?

A lot of people over react to a lot of things.

Good for you! Have a devil may care attitude for yourself-I don't give a monkeys what you do but don't belittle or try to drag others down with you!

BTW...what's your definition of high BG's?

 

[bonus]

Ketones are usually only created from long times of permanently high BG though aren't they ?

 

[ne0h]

Before I started on drug treatment Ive had my meter say 'ketones?' with a high reading.

So if I see something like that it means I could have DKA and I could die?

 

[noblehead]

I understand that people should go to A&E if and only if they are genuinely ill. For example if someone has been poisoned or something like that. But i just dont get why people with just a high blood sugar reading would feel the need to sit for 5 hours in A&E. After all what can the Dr do? Its just a waste of time and a bit on the hypercondriac side for someone to do this.

Have you or anyone you know done this? What was the outcome?.

I've never done this but plenty have for good reason, if you can't get your bg down (and have ketones) then it's paramount that you seek urgent medical attention, the possibly of DKA and the consequences doesn't bear thinking about.

 

[ne0h]

Good for you! Have a devil may care attitude for yourself-I don't give a monkeys what you do but don't belittle or try to drag others down with you!

BTW...what's your definition of high BG's?

You know what paulie, you should give a monkeys what I do because we are in the same boat or aren't you diabetic like me?

 

[Mrs Vimes]

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[Ambersilva]

DKA is more a symptom of Type 1 diabetes because insulin is not produced in sufficient amounts to enable the sugar in the blood to enter the cells. I don't know the ins and outs of Type 2 diabetes but I do know that anyone with persistent high blood sugar will, over time, suffer life-threatening complications.

It may be that you have not been diabetic long enough to experience complicarions but time will tell if you carry on with your "i'm right and everyone else is wrong" attitude.