When You Were In the Hospital...

[Furry6feline]

When you were in the hospital...
What was your blood sugar? I know of a 400 case and 700. Also, how long did your doctor say you had it before it was diagnosed?
And...
Were you sensitive to light?

-999 (High as meter could go)
-1 year
-No

[copperroom]

-800 plus
-never said
-no

[faithe113001]

-495
-never said
-no, but one weird thing was that I had a lot of leg cramps when I was in the hospital. :-/

[alisong0223]

Hey, I didn't end up in the hospital, but...

-792
-didn't say
-no

and my A1c was like...11.3 (really bad)

my mom said that i'm a "magic fairy princess" lol

[diabeticgirl101]

One of my mom's friend had a bloodsugar in the 1000's. She was in a coma for like 6 days and when she woke up she couldn't see.

b.s. was in the 400's
don't know how long
and not really

[WatchingSis]

My lil' sister's was 800 and had been that high for a very long time. She couldn't see hardly anything and it took a while to recover--she also developed cataracts about six months after being diagnosed and was almost blind within three weeks. Her feet swelled about a week after she got out of the hospital, which the doctors said meant she'd had it a lot longer than they thought. She weighed about 65 pounds when she should've weighed 100.

[faithe113001]

Oh my goodness!! I've had trouble with my eyes too, but mine were just blurry. I've never heard of anything like that before, thank goodness it was caught before she got worse!

[leslie91879]

I dont remember what my bloodsugar was exactly but I think it was in the 1000's Doc thought it was from day one and that I have been living with it for 18months and not to sure about the light thing since I was only 18 months old

[butterflygal291]

a little over 400
didn't say. but did say if i hadn't came to the dr. i would have been in ICU by the end of the week
no

[munchkingirl]

*mine was 400's+
*the doctor never said how long exactly, but we traced it several weeks for sure
*i wasn't light sensitive. But my eyes also went blurry and stuff.

[Chase's mom]

win I was in the hospitle it was 600,and my doctor said I had it for about 90 days

[Chase's mom]

When I was in the hospital it was 650,and my doctor said I had it for at least 90 days.

[yourwickedness]

mine was 118 and i caught it really early so in a way i guess im lucky

[Sarah]

My blood sugar was 1300.
They didn't say how long I'd had it, but I had been sick for a long time..

[xxlu_luxx]

Mine was in the 27mmol range

[kristina]

-Somewhere in the 400's.
-They didn't say, but I started to notice it about 5 months before I was diagnosed.
-No.

Weird thing is, my eyesight actually sometimes got better. For a few days I didn't need my glasses, and in the hospital it was blurry with my glasses on.

[butterflygal291]

mine was in the low 400s. the doctor told me if I hadn't come in when I did, i would have been in a coma by the end of the week.

[LantusFiend]

425.
I don't know how long I had it, but between two and thirteen months seems most probable. My hemoglobin A1c was off the charts- 16 is the highest they go and mine tested 16, so it was probably higher. They say that people who develop type 1 diabetes as adults (I am almost 18) tend to have longer onsets.
My eyes hurt from the light, and my night vision has gotten noticably worse. My vision in general had been very variable.

[SuGaR_RuSh]

i had a 450 sugar. and my doctor didnt know i had it until the results came in.

[Dylan]

-495
-never said
-no, but one weird thing was that I had a lot of leg cramps when I was in the hospital. :-/

The reason for those cramps was a lack of potassium.

[Dylan]

-350 -never said-no

[ErictheFerret]

I was around 750 when they diagnosed me.

[Ithilfey]

I was 503. My doctor only said that I was a day away from going into a coma. No, I wasn't sensitive to light, but I've heard that it happens.

[dGirl]

I was 800+ But they said it'd been worse before when I told them what'd happened. I almost passed out too ><.
3 months
like some I got blurry at times. but never couldn't see

[dGirl]

The reason for those cramps was a lack of potassium.

I got cramps at the house (Before I was diagnosed) all the time! charlie horses would wake me up all the time.

[Dylan]

A1c over 14

[blbrocky]

495
a couple of weeks
blurry vision
A1C - 11

[dGirl]

Oh yeah my AIC was 15 1/2.

[Diet Dr. Pepper]

I wan't taken to the hospital when I was diagnosed... is that normal? I was at my pediatrician and the nursed tested my bg and it was 260 and was a fasting one... then sent us for blood work and then we went home.. 3 days later we went to an endo and they taught us some stuff in a 5 hr class and sent us home...so yeah...

[diabeticangel14]

I went to the hospital. I did fasting bloodwork and I was 360-something and then 472 the next day with a 18.0 a1c. The local dr. wanted to do what you did, Diet DP, but my ped dr. called me in at the children's hospital and I was there for 3 days.

[Diet Dr. Pepper]

My a1c was 4 when I was diagnosed... now it's 7.2... It's never been higher than 8.7. What's normal for most diabetics? I've heard that the magic number is 7...:confused:

[malyssa]

7.2 isn't bad at all. My last one was 10 :( ...Thats why I switched back to Lantus. 7 is the magic number for me. I hope I can get there by my end of May endo appt.

[s0ccerfreak]

I was dx'd 10 years ago so I guess things were a little different. I was in the hospital for a week! I was in the 590's but didnt have any keytones

[swtttcherrypie]

My blood sugar fasting for 8 hrs. was 289 or something.Extra Large Keytones. A1c-19.5. Crazy huh? All the symphtoms, never expected it.Best friend with type 1. love her!!!:)

[liveitxloveit]

i was never in the hospital for it, because they caught it before it got bad =] but i'll answer from when i was diagnosed and all...

-555
-well, first the doctor told my parents. then i had to get tested. it was about 2-3 weeks before i was actually diagnosed.
-i was never in the hospital, but i wasn't when i was diangosed...
i don't know what my a1c was, and i had no ketones.