10 months, WOW!
i was 21 and my sugar was so high it didnt even register on the meter. i was suffering for about 2 weeks with full blown type 1 and didnt even have a clue. i was sicker then sick and just kept eating sweets and drinking juice like i had never done before. by the time i got to the hospital when i didnt think i could last much longer they couldnt believe i had made it to that point.
I was diagnosed 2 days before my 21st birthday at 944. Had the pleasure of spending my birthday with my favorite endocrinologist. I guess it could have been higher considering it was just after the Holiday season! It's not that crazy of a story, which is probably a good thing, haha!
Yea Sarah. It was pretty crazy. I had all the classic stuff. Tried, woke one day with blurry vision, going to the bathroom every hour, everything stopped tasting sweet and so thirsty.
I still feel a little funny on this website, being an old man LOL.
Yes I love the beach.
Opps hold on I got that funny feeling. OK, I am still hypo aware, bs is 60. Got to treat the low. OMG I hate this feeling and the shaking, but starting to feel normal(?) again.
Yea the beach can't wait to take my grand daughter for the first time, she's due in Feb. 2010
Ab was 476 or 467 when diagnosed in july. I still remember yelling at the poor thing she was like a starving,thirsty,peeing lunatic. Every time we went anywhere that week she wanted food and bottle after bottle of water which meant pit stops for pee breaks. I never put it together until she started throwing up and it smelled funny. I actually stopped letting her have drinks while we were out because of all the stops. Never met a diabetic none in the family. Don't I feel like an a$@ now for not paying closer attention.
mine was only 288. It was in the morning when i first woke up i was throwing up and had severe stomach pains so my mom took me to the hospital...
where theyy said i was diabetic
i was 1021 i had diabetes for 3 weeks without knowing and i was in the hospital for 3 weeksi was in a coma for 1 of the weeks
I was 1300 at diagnosis, and was on sugar IV 0_o.. so Im guessing I went up to around 1400 b4 It was discovered..
Over 1200 at dx. It was November 4, 2008. I remember going to the store while my g/f was still sleeping (probably 6 am) and getting a 2liter of cherry coke and a huge fountain drink. Seeing how I was vomiting all night, my sugar was probably pretty high. Then, I drank all of the coke. I started hallucinating - thinking there were people in her bedroom and "why are all these people here?" On the way to the hospital I totally went blind. We went into a clinic and the doctor said I reeked of fruit. I can remember wearing sunglasses in the hospital and everyone sort of sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher - "whah wah whah wa wa wa."
ICU - DKA. 6 days. My HGA1C was 17.9. My p.h was 6.8 - basically so acidic it is inhabitable for human life. It was a terrible experience, but looking back I don't regret it. Not in the least. I feel it had happened that way for a purpose. Honestly, the worst part was drinking broth for the first 5 days. Ughhhh. Broth. Otherwise, it's a pretty cool story.
P.S. I remember a certain point in this experience so clearly - I was vomiting and peeing and in a hospital bed in the ER and people were fading in and out and I didn't understand much. I looked up at the doctor, my sister was by my side (my only family) and I said "am I going to die?" It was a self-actualizing experience. I have never had such a clear thought in my life as I did that day. Considering death - truly considering the fate of not living - was a pinnacle, in some sense, of my existence. I feel truly blessed, not for making it through (though I do) but rather for experiencing something that most will never experience. I'm 25 and still alive.
we're happy to have you around, joseph
I was diagnosed this past February. I had all the typical symptoms, but the one that caused me to get checked was blurred vision in a matter of days! And the crazy mood swings...I was crying all the time! :)
When diagnosed I believe I was in the 500's, but not DKA. I have been super shocked to read some of these numbers!
Mine was 725 and that was not eating anything in like 5 hours!!!! I will never forget that day...it was the 4th of July 2009 and I had fallen off a horse and couldn't get up cause I had fractured my hip. Well at the time we didn't know I had broken anything and I looked at my dad and step mom and said I'm just tired and I wanna lay down. So immediately my step mom was like ok we are getting you to the hospital thinking of a concusion. Well the nurse took blood and everything and came back in and said sweetie are you diabetic? I was like no. I didn't come in here for sugar problems I came in here for bone problems. She was like well when was the last time you ate? I was like about 5 or so hours ago. She was like ok, well your blood sugar is 725!!!! I was like OMG!!!!
800 something or other... good times!
I still like that quote "I shoot up when I'm high" or whatever...who said that again?
my blood sugar was over 1200 when i was diagnosed. maybe closer 1500 but who knows.
mine was 390ish, it wasnt that high compared to some but i was already in DKA :[
and the reason i was in the hospital was because a fever and later in the hospital for a week since i was diagnosed with t 1 and somehow i manage to get e coli in my blood ...which probabaly the main reason i was at the hospital so long xD
My daughter's bg was 1076 when she was diagnosed at 22 months. They could not believe she was not in a coma.
Hehehe mine was 939. Not gooood at all. they just kept telling me i was a lucky girl and i didnt understand and now i know when they said that they meant i was lucky cuz i was hours to days away from a diabetic coma.. :(
Hehehe mine was 939. Not gooood at all. they just kept telling me i was a lucky girl and i didnt understand and now i know when they said that they meant i was lucky cuz i was hours to days away from a diabetic coma.. :(
The Minimed sales reps have really been working their list of pump users with expired warranties. I've gotten calls and emails lately warning me that I should upgrade soon. The last email said it would be a "catastrophe" if my pump stopped working and that by getting a new pump now I'd be "proactive instead of reactive."
I read between the lines and also know that I'd help him meet his sales quota for the month. And I've been through the "catastrophe" of my pump dying before. It's a minor inconvenience.
You just have to decide. If you keep your current pump until it dies it will save you money. The down side is that when your pump stops working you'll have to take shots for a day or 2 until the new one arrives.
In my experience my pump usually dies within a year of the warranty expiring. And I usually know when the pump is starting to have problems because it makes a louder noice when rewinding to prime. Not sure if others have experienced that or how they know their pump is about to stop working.
There are a few upgrades on the new pump, mainly that it givesa smaller increment of insulin than my 522 and integrates with the CGM. So I'm keeping my current one as long as possible, but know that I'm taking a chance it could die and cause me a few days of taking shots.