Posted on 03/19/2019 8:52:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Yesterday I measured my blood glucose when I was experiencing ravenous thirst. I would drink a quart of water, then on the last gulp, experience an intense thirst. I knew something was wrong.
I measured on the meter and it said "HIGH, OVER 600 mg/dL". It was too high for the meter.
I took 40 units of long-acting insulin and 50 units of a sliding-scale immediate-acting insulin, and in 4 hours I was at 460 mg/dL b/g. Based on how insulin is processed in my body, I extrapolate that at one point I was at 1,100 mg/dL b/g.
I felt death close by me.
I am so concerned about a thug or a government killing me, but the reality is I will die from disease. All my guns won't protect me from diabetes.
Im ok. More to come
Have your Dr prescribe you a blood ketone meter to also test blood when you are over 200-250. It’s the ketones that will throw you into acidosis and destroy your organs. The ER would have done the same as you did with large bolus insulin, but in acidosis your blood chemistry (potassium and magnesium et al) can go totally nuts and do some real damage. My grandaughter was just in the 500’s after an insulin pump failure, her glucose levels came down ok, but she was in ICU for 24hrs for the blood chemistry to get stable. Glad yours resolved.
Yikes
Jeebus, what did you do or didn’t do yesterday?
1100 would put a normal person in a diavetic coma. I lost a friend to this.
hes got insulin, that means type 1
Doctors use to taste urine to test for diabetes. An old family story is that my great-grandfather’s prairie doc use to taste his urine to see how his diabetes was doing.
BFL
Worked with a guy who ended up in the icu with a score of 900.
Get this fixed up, Laz
See a doctor ASAP. Seriously!
We don’t want nuthin’ bad happening to our Laz!
One of the other methods of determining relative blood sugar in the past was to pour urine near an ant hill and see if they came to it.
170/110 is too high. I am subject to Anxiety attacks and before I got on the right combo of meds I had one attack that was 225/117, of course an hour or so later it was back to normal of 125/80
I would not mess around with that kind of number,BP meds, we are talking between 10 to 20mg a day and that is not a high dose.
Watch out for Actos and read the side effects, one of them being Congestive Heart Failure. I would never take that and I have Type II also.
Prayers up for you, Laz.
Thanks struggle,
I’m impressed with your analysis and suggestions and have thought along the same lines many times. I’m really a Type 0 because I have no pancreas (17 years) and have to manage my diabetes more closely than the usual Type 1s. Many times I have to fly by the seat of my pants to maintain control.
Consequently I test more often and inject more or less insulin on a daily basis. I know the importance of body mass and the amount of activity that I need to keep me going and the effect it will have on my physical and mental condition. What I have to learn is how to stretch my insulin usage under SHTF conditions if I want to continue to survive.
Include heart, lung, and liver problems and management becomes even more complex. I am 15 years past my expiration date, so I am on borrowed time anyway.
Technology for Type 1s has expanded to new levels and some of them are promising, but I still cannot rely on implanted (automated) systems to monitor the blood sugar periodically and inject the right amount of insulin under every condition. Like Teslas and 737 maxs, there are hidden faults (side effects/logic faults) in many of these automated systems which can result in death.
Again thanks for the input.
I have a student a bit like that. As a baby she was wildly hypoglycemic, so doctors had to remove 95% of her pancreas. Well, she grew older and of course then became Type-1 diabetic.
Yikes! I’m praying for you, Laz. My husband is diabetic and needed to drop a lot of weight. I don’t know if that’s an issue for you but I’ll share the Cross Fit Zone Diet here for whoever’s interested. https://library.crossfit.com/free/pdf/cfjissue21_May04.pdf
He lost 85 pounds and his blood sugar is under control.
By the way, a SEAL in my command shared this with me, he said this is actually the diet the SEALs use. It actually changes your metabolism.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/10/22/is-fasting-ok-for-diabetics.aspx
https://www.drperlmutter.com/about/brain-maker-by-david-perlmutter-md/
https://www.lifeextension.com/Protocols/Metabolic-Health/Diabetes-and-Glucose-Control/Page-01
Take it seriously and good luck!
Thanks Ozark Tom:
Sheep pancreas or pig pancreas will work. It can be done but it takes skills and tools I do not possess, plus an animal or source for the pancreas.
Brings me back to the time I read an article called “Create your own Insulin in 50 Easy Steps” that I found in some survival mag years ago.
But don’t think it hasn’t crossed my mind...
I will suggest this to my husband. Thanks!
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