Rising Against DKA (Diabetic Ketoacidosis)
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When I went into DKA (for the second time from a bad site) I had puked like 12 times that day and it was only 10am so my mom took me to the hospital and the nurse asked me if he could have some students come to see what it’s like to be in DKA I said sure he had them all smell my breath and they all said that it smelt like fruit punch👅🍎🍉🍇🍒🍓🍑 it also made it so I didn’t like the taste of water which I think is weird but it makes sense
That cow bell has to go!
Cow bell? What?
Half of the planet is going to get diabetes.
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Nasdaq trader that’s type 2 – still a horrible disease but much less likely to cause dka
I didn’t know anything about diabetes before i was diagnosed. I went to my doctor with every symptom apart from vomiting but my doctor didnt think anything of it. I told him everything but he thought it was a virus or something and organised a blood test NOT a bloodsugar test. The next week when i was supposed to get my blood test done i chickened out and my mum was so scared about how clearly sick i was she took me to the emergency room. A quick urine test which took 5 minutes and there you go. I find it horrible that my own doctor didnt diagnose me when i had ALL of the symptoms but one. It’s just insane. Given a few more weeks i dont think i would have been in hospital conscious.
I am 31 and just got my type1 when I got a cortizone shot….yes like the next day had all my symptoms. I immediately stopped producing saliva at all, had extreme fatigue and could not make it through my day, extreme thirst I could not quench, started losing weight, leg cramps and more. Because the work doctors gave me the shot and I told them I was having an alergic reaction they kept telling me oh well no symptoms you say are associated with that shot and had 3 doctors dismiss me. After just over a month and losing over 45 lbs in this time not even sure how I was still going to my job or walking around as a zombie I finally had a doctor that just ran a test and sent me to the emergency room with a 780 bgl where I spent the next 3 days. Doctors need to listen more to their patients. Now I work an extremely physical job and we are not allowed food or drink on the floor at the warehouse and I had one supervisor tell me ok to a gatorade, but to keep it hidden. I think this is ridiculous and should be allowed to treat my disease by just having food or drink with me and not hiding it. I got the pump almost immediately and wear it with pride so others that may be ashamed done need to be and to bring awareness to it.
My nephew Ben died on 8th December from DKA as a result of undiagnosed Type 1 Diabetes in UK He went to emergency at hospital and was told he was suffering anxiety and had cardiac arrest next day. He came off life support three days later after being declared brain dead the day after his arrest. Trouble is after cardiac arrest he was pumped with fluids by paramedics and trauma team who didn’t know he had T1 or DKA and this made his brain swell as fluids have to be given slowly in DKA. His anxiety diagnosis came from focus on kussmaul breathing and total ignorance of all other symptoms. Ben had no symptoms of diabetes until five days before his death …it can kill that fast.
Crafty Little Things UK that’s terrible I’m so sorry 🙁 🙁 🙁
I had this before I got diagnosed.Luckily for me my mum had type 2 diabetes and managed to spot the signs for my type 1. I was always sick, losing tons of weight, eating loads and drinking loads, vomiting a bit and using the toilet a lot. She did a blood test and it was quite high so she took me to the gp where we did another one and it was so high that the machine couldn’t even read it and it just said ‘HI’
Before I was dxed my PCP told my mother that I had a 200 bs from a Banana. Tests where repeated, and they where fasting. I was 6 years old, and I remember the two blood tests back to back and it being traumatising.
My mom would always tell people a potato is as bad as cookies. That was hard for people to understand.
Oh and BTW, I did have a pancreas transplant and it failed. Currently I’m on MDI and Dexcom, but I’ve been on the pump.
My mom would also say I smelled fruity, but its not a nice smell, its bitter. I have never smelled it myself.
They check my thyroid all the time. I get pretty bitchy and demand things be done in the doctors office.
I was misdiagnosed by my primary care physician in 2014. I came into the doctor because I had horrible shortness of breath, and I had passed out the day before. I also had many other symptoms of Type 1 like frequent urination, thirst, dry mouth, and noticeable weight loss. My doctor told me that I had severe anxiety (which I do have, but never that severe), and that they needed to work with my therapist, who I was also seeing because of the frequent mood swings that come with high blood sugar, to prescribe me medication to control it. I was also prescribed an antibiotic for my dry mouth, which they thought was thrush. They also believed I was dehydrated (I was!) and they tried to run me with fluids, and sent me home to drink Gatorade and Jell-O! Luckily by that evening I was begging my grandparents to admit me into a hospital. The hospital quickly recognized my symptoms and was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (blood sugar level of 486mg/dl), and DKA. Everything had been going on for weeks, and my whole entire body was out of whack. I spent 3 days in the PICU. The primary care doctor sent an ambulance to my house the next day after they saw what my blood sugar was! Who would’ve known what happened if I would’ve waited until then!
i can totally relate to what you are saying i was 12 when i was diagnosed with my diabetes i was so sick i had to go to the hospital but when i was there 3 doctors checkt on me and tried to send me home saying it was just a flu but luckily my mom insisted to do more check ups so they did and i was diagnosed with diabetes but unfortunatley i was so sick it was hard to recover i got under weight had a lot of pain but now fortunatley when my two younger sisters got diagnosed they were not sick they were lucky because i always used to let them check their blood sugars maby once every month its good to do that if you have siblings because there is a chance they get diabetes too