Ketones and Diabetic Ketoacidosis | Knowing the Signs and Symptoms
Recognizing, testing for, and effectively treating ketones and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) are basic survival skills for everyone living with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Beyond Type 1 is teaming up with JDRF to focus on DKA awareness and education.
Beyond Type 1:
I need to stop drinking soda and eating poorly.
Thank you so much for educating and sharing your experiences. Type 1 can be overwhelming.
Thank you for sharing your story. …you’re helping countless others…..thank you so much!!!!
I’ve been going through these symptoms for years my ketones are always high in my urine and it seems none of my food digest my body is in a forced fasting mode, and I had to be admitted to the hospital they told me that I had autoimmune pancreatitis, found that my glucose was up and down and they was checking to see if I have and diabetic symptoms, all I was given was protonix to keep taking, one time it took Marijauna and acid was coming right out of my tongue I had diarrhea and lose stool I still can see that food is not all the way digested in stool , I go to a rheumatologist recently to get more blood test done my ANA screen by ifa, test under immunology & protein studies is positive and says abnormal so now I’m waiting for a follow up, it’s been it’s a scary journey for me but I’m holding on and staying strong, I will push for more test to test for type 1, because my calcium was also high in my blood I would feel and cracking all over and my body aches and then I move bowel so I know it’s something going on, I’ve been praying 🙏
@Caden Josiah Yea, been watching on InstaFlixxer for since november myself 🙂
hi. thank you for sharing! so what do you recommend if the doctor does not catch it? i went to get a blood test to see if i am diabetic but came back negative. im afraid that maybe they might not have caught it, that’s if i do.
Thanks for this! Another symptom that comes after extended DKA is severe muscle cramps at least with my pre DX it was. Probably severe dehydration due to DKA though. I lost 35 lbs over a 3 week period, while eating and drinking everything in sight, but during the last week my calf and thigh muscles cramped so badly during the night I couldn’t walk in the morning. Had to drag myself into a warm bath before I could stand and get dressed for work. DKA is awful 🙁
Thanks for this i dont personally have diabetes but it helped to give an understandimg to look out for loved ones.
Good information! Thank you.
Thanks a lot. I’ve been experiencing sudden peaks for the last 3 days and was looking for information about it. I’ve been a T1D for a decade and it’s always a learning experience. How can I contact you? It would be nice to chat with a fellow T1D.
So ANY amount of Ketones is bad? If it stays under 7 it’s still bad? If so why?
@Stirling Davison why
Only if you’re a diabetic or prediabetic.
damn she cute tho
Difficult to listen to what she’s saying when she’s that good looking 🤤😆
I get very bad body odor with it can you tell me if anyone get this to
You’re not alone dear, it happens to me most of the time and am becoming so stressed about it. Sad😭I have all that l know, but it keeps happening. Hopefully we can get some answers because it’s really embarrassing.
How do you handle ketones? How to get rid of ketones? Please help.
Good luck going through a lot with my health
Dka sucks. So sleepy
I got DKA last year and I wasn’t sure what was wrong with me and I tried going to the doctor but they didn’t do much and then it got worse I also fell into coma and rushed to the hospital and got diagnosed with diabetes and it was so hard for me because of COVID-19 so my family couldn’t visit
is DKA another word for high blood sugar? can someone give a simple answer please
DKA, Diabetic Ketoacidosis is caused by high blood sugars over an extended period of time. Weeks, month or two. Your kidneys filter the bad things out of your blood. In this case your kidneys try to filter out the excess sugar if your blood sugars are too high. But the kidneys cannot filter all the sugar out. Overtime this high sugar remaining in your blood causes proteins and acids to build up in the blood. This poisons you. And can kill you. Symptoms are excessive drinking of water to help the kidneys get rid of the excess sugar it is filtering out. And your breath smells like bananas.
DKA stands for Diabetic Ketoacidosis. You can read more on it here: https://www.jdrf.org/t1d-resources/about/symptoms/ketoacidosis/
@JDRF thanks fore the reply, i went and googled it and read and listened to many videos and still don’t know but thanks anyway, i think it is a fancy name for saying really high blood sugar that says high, that is about what i can figure out, i myself have type 2 and with meds it is doing really good now