Mine was my 1st diagnosis @1150 mg/dl on the high end (went into db coma, required double insulin IV's), and on the low end, @19 mg/dl, which I brought myself up with lots of m&m's.
I'm not proud of it, but can anyone beat that?
2006-09-29 10:33:43 · 13 answers · asked by x 5 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
Doris D, Holy Smokes! I'm surprised you are not dead! 1975!? Dang, woman. God bless you!
Pheonix and mischa, you two sound like you are hypoglycemics, not diabetics. Am I correct? Pheonix, most diabetics will snicker if someone says their highest was 150mg/dl. Are you using the European scale or something?
2006-09-29 11:39:11 · update #1
omapat,
I don't remember pain except just before going into the coma. My quack PCP thought I had appendicitis because I was experiencing severe abdominal pain. My excessive thirst and urinating were no clues to him. Fortunately, when I passed out, they sent me to the emergency room. When I woke up from the 3 day coma, the hospital docs had figured it out, but I had not. When I woke up, I had no idea where I was and the room was spinning. I had an IV in each arm. I ripped them out, ran down the hall, and escaped down the stairs. They caught me out front, brought me back, belted me in to the bed, and put back the IVs.
2006-09-29 17:04:47 · update #2
Bless your heart candee. That must have been a tough time for you (and your son, of course). I wonder how many kids have suffered and died because medical personnel couldn't figure out a diabetic patient. All it takes is a finger prick. Why is that such a hard thing for a doc to check for anybody going into bodily trouble?
2006-09-29 19:10:38 · update #3
P.S. Even if you are not the highest or lowest, I have found it interesting to read your posts. Please keep them coming.
2006-10-02 05:33:27 · update #4
maybe i can ive been 1975 on the high end and 15 on the low end..................not saying i didnt end up in the hospital though.
2006-09-29 10:43:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't been near as high or low as you have, but I remember being about 600 or more and didn't need to go to the hospital. I just took care of it with lots and lots of sleep, water, and insulin, and of course constantly checking my blood sugar to be sure it was going down. I have gone down to the 20s, which at that time my ex husband had to shake me awake and get liquid sugar into me right away before I went into a coma. That only happened once, tho.
I have had diabetes since I was 2 1/2 years old, almost in a coma at that time (in 1967), so I have NO idea what my blood sugar was then. I just know that I was in the hospital for a month!!
2006-10-04 21:11:24 · answer #2 · answered by honey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter was diagnosed with a BG level of 1250 at yale childrens.
No coma thankfully and no long term damage.
Treating pedatrician didn't take months of my calling and bringing her in as a sign something was seriously wrong with a child who had only ever seen a doctor previously for standard shots for school.
Thankfully that fateful day I thought she would die I had demanded she see an ER doctor and the on-call doctor knew immediately what was wrong before I hung up.
Her lowest so far has been 42 and she has an A1c of 5.3.
I'm the other end and Hypo and my lowest was a 26. Odd how I make too much and she has no insulin.
2006-09-29 21:16:00 · answer #3 · answered by Answerkeeper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my lowest level has been 14 and my highest was 21(during a long bout with pneumonia). My doctor stated when i ran these rates that she did not know why i wasn't in a coma or dead. I also run between 400-600 daily and also between 200-300 throughout the day. I am now a candidate for the insulin pump. Hoping this controls better.
Good luck
2006-10-05 16:35:20 · answer #4 · answered by awest41502 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I almost passed out at work, the room just suddenly started spinning. I had no idea what was happening. I was doing rounds with a Dr, and another nurse checked my blood sugar. My BS was 15, and I was working as a charge nurse on the floor. I was hooked up to an IV and continued to work, how's that for a caring and concerned employer? I was diagnosed at that time. I'm much more careful now. Thank goodness, I've never hit high's or low's that were scary.
2006-09-29 17:45:02 · answer #5 · answered by mischa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess i can top it, my sons was 2050 when he was falling in a diabetes coma, and that was bc the diff pediatricians couldn't figure out that he was diabetic, he was sick, refused to eat, the doctor told me i should give him sugar water, that's what made it so high then, in the hospital they said, they never saw so a high number before. He was one week in ITC, after that i spend 5 more weeks with him in the hospital, he was 2 years old then.
His lowest, i can not say, cause the meter reads under 20 only low, but it was under 20!
2006-09-30 00:46:49 · answer #6 · answered by candee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went into a coma back in March with a 1300 hight but I don't go below 40. Two weeks ago I have a heart attack and it send my BS to 1029 No coma Thank yu God!!
Type 1 diabetic.
Ps When you returned from the coma did it hurt really bad? Mine did I wanted to die!! and was kept on drugs to help the pain.
2006-09-29 23:02:07 · answer #7 · answered by omapat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, The highest would have to be the first time I was diagnosed with Diabetes which would be 700 and something. [Can't remember the exact number.] The lowest, would have to be 24?
But wow, the above posts are scary. Over 1000? =[
Besides, my first diagnoses the highest its ever been was 412 I belive.
2006-09-30 23:50:33 · answer #8 · answered by 3.14 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The day I was diagnosed I was at 1165 and very sick.......my lowest was only 34 it also the day I was diagnosed.....the doctor gave me a shot of insulin to "shock" my system as he put it. At this point I had very little knowledge of diabetes and had borrowed a glucometer.....That was a really baaaad day!
2006-10-05 11:08:49 · answer #9 · answered by kaddy1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my daughter was diagnosed at 16 months of age, she's now 7, the lowest she's been is 16 and the highest-in the hospital at 1276.
2006-09-29 20:31:28 · answer #10 · answered by Lindsey M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my lowest was 34, when I passed out and my highest was something over 150. I feel best between 100-110.
2006-09-29 17:44:17 · answer #11 · answered by pheonixardent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋