I realize now how fortunate he is to be alive with that high of BS levels. Susan, The system did not notify me of your post, hence the late response. I hope you called your doctor to find out if you needed an emergency room visit and that you are okay now. That is a very high reading. If you aren't on insulin yet, ask your doctor to get you started. With readings that high insulin is the only safe approach. Hello don't know if u can help me but been having high bs reading I'm a type 2 dieabetic on tablets but the past couple of weeks suger has been very high I took a bs this morning before I had breakfast and it read Claire, Usually when the meter says "Ketones" it is telling you to check for ketones which people do with either special meters or urine strips.
High ketones and a blood sugar that high show that you might be at risk for diabetic ketoacidosis, a very dangerous condition. It is most common with Type 1s, not Type 2s. However, with a fasting blood sugar that high it is possible that your diagnosis was wrong and you are Type 1. I would get to a doctor as soon as possible. Can you call your family doctor's practice for advice here?
Better a wasted ER visit than a serious crisis. I feel this may lead me down a road I don't to go down and I have know one to turn to, it's getting worse by the days and fear I might die soon because of this,. Mike, You need a better doctor. Can you see an endocrinologist who could give you an effective insulin regime?. It is not necessary to have such high numbers. Mary, I wish your sister-in-law a very speedy and full recovery. Sometimes blood sugar will shoot up because of some other health crisis, so it is hard to know what that blood sugar means for her long term.
It sounds like she is getting the treatment she needs. When she is released, be sure that she and her family understand the diagnosis and the follow-up recommendations. She should monitor her blood sugars at home with a meter and see an endocrinologist to get appropriate treatment if they don't come back to normal. Ebony, I have heard from someone else who had a similar story. Their local endocrinologist was not very helpful. What they ended up doing was going to see an endocrinologist at one of the big regional teaching hospitals one that has a medical school.
The endocrinologists there are experts with experience dealing with difficult cases. You may have extreme insulin resistance or perhaps an allergy to insulin which makes it less effective.
U insulin which is much more concentrated may help. If your current doctor is just letting your blood sugars stay where they are, you need to fire him and do whatever it takes to see someone more expert.
If cost is a problem, consider raising money on a site like gofundme. There is no reason for anyone to have to live with blood sugars like what you report. They can be lowered! Meanwhile, while you are waiting to see a better doctor, have you tried cutting way back on your starches and sugars and eating mostly fat and proteins?
An Atkins style diet Eating a very low carbohydrate diet should help bring down your blood sugars a lot. If a low carb diet doesn't lower your blood sugar, it is more of a sign that you need an expert, as there are some other conditions besides diabetes that might be occurring that they can test for. I'm really hoping you can get the help you need! I'm typ2 I've been told my readings have been high for over a year.
This Friday I was vomiting headache weak. Sweating felt really bad going to the loo and drinking a lot. I'm seeing doctor Wednesday but I've been told if my sugars have beenvhigh for over a year and this happened I should be on insulin is this true. My doc said she thinks I had ketones fri but I couldn't get to hospital but my daughter got me emergency tabs.
Post a Comment. Visit the main Blood Sugar Web Site to learn more about how blood sugar works, what blood sugar levels cause organ damage, what blood sugar levels are safe and how to achieve those safe blood sugar levels. Reproduction of blog content without permission strictly prohibited. My uncle, like all his family, was a bit of a cheapskate. He hated to spend money unless it was absolutely necessary. He was thin and active, having only recently given up a career as a singer and dancer performing weekly on a nationally televised variety show.
So when he felt unwell one weekend night, he turned down his wife's suggestion that she drive him to the emergency room and told her he'd wait til Monday when he could see his family doctor.
Why waste all that money on an ER visit that was probably unnecessary? As it turned out, he didn't need to see his doctor on Monday. He died that night. He was a few years younger than I am now and the fatal heart attack he experienced was the first symptom he had of our family's odd form of inherited diabetes.
But this is why, even though I've inherited the family "cheap" gene, if there's any possibility something dangerous is going on, I head for the ER. Usually it is a waste of money. I was in a small car accident a few weeks ago that left me with nerve pain running up and down my arms and legs.
I went to the ER because I'd called my family doctor's office and they told me to. Whiplash usually resolves on its own, but occasionally it can cause swelling in your neck that can kill you. I'm not equipped to judge what kind I had, and unlike my uncle, I wasn't about to gamble. So with this in mind, you can understand my reaction when a stranger contacted me recently, after reading my web page, and told me that his blood sugar, which had been normal until very recently, was testing in the s on his meter except when his meter wasn't able to give him a number.
Cutting the carbs out of his diet was not lowering his blood sugar, either. He'd been told to go to the ER, but didn't have insurance. This is an ugly situation, but being alive without insurance is a whole lot better than leaving a tidy estate.
I told him to go to the ER too. Especially if you aren't already diagnosed with diabetes or under a doctor's care. It's an emergency not because those very high blood sugars will lead to complications. They will, but it takes more than a few days of exposure to high blood sugars to cause complications.
It's an emergency because the are two different disorders that can occur when your blood sugar is very high that can kill you within hours. One is diabetic ketoacidosis DKA. This is a condition that usually occurs in people who are not making any insulin at all. Usually this means someone with a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes.
But it is also diagnosed in people with Type 2, probably because many people who develop diabetes late in life are misdiagnosed with Type 2 when they really have some form of autoimmune diabetes that is killing off their beta cells. I won't be restricted to one area of medicine or one type of person. Stanford provided it. I now understand that medicine is more than knowing protocols, anatomy and drugs. Being a physician is about staring into the abyss of uncertainty and knowing at your core when to have the confidence to act and when to find help.
It is about compassion, awareness and direct action. Briese grew up in Long Beach, which he called a 'microcosm of the entire U. One side of the city borders Compton, the other the ocean.
He hopes to return there someday to give something back to his hometown.
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