Hi I was wondering for u diabetics that have gone through a dka. Do u get aggressive? I woke up in the hospital bruised and sore about 2 weeks and my brother told me that he has never seen a fight like that out of a 185lbs person. He said it took 9 paramedics and a cop to hold me down and when they strapped me down to the gurnie they left 1 leg out and i managed to kick paramedic derek out of the ambulance luckily it wasnt moving yet. When i woke the nurse came in my room and smiled and said i knew there was a nice person underneath that dka. The doctor said my sugar was 2256. I only had 2 dkas in my entire life in which the first one i went into a 6 month coma. So do u get aggressive like that or close to it?
I have never had DKA, but I have been known to get "pushy" when I am very low. I get unlike myself, pushing, crying, yelling, etc. Once the BG gets up there, I am fine. I did once try to bite a paramedic who was trying to feed me OJ when I was in college.
Blood sugar 2256? I would be dead, not agressive. I heard from a friend he went temporarly blind for a few hours, in the emergency room.What were you eating or drinking Eric?
Good god, 2256??? Have you not been taking your insulin?
I will never give you orange juice T1Forever.
I have been eating what i normally eat its just my insulin pump clogged and it didnt alarm me so i was eating with no insulin and on top of that i took a nap so yeah my body was not burning any calories or carbs
I thught i was getting my insulin but my pump clogged up
The highest I ever went while DKA was 13??? something I think it was but according to my husband I was totally tanked out now when I get low (under 21) I can fight like 3 men. But when I'm high like that I tend to get totally out of breath and don't even feel like walking across the room.
what pump do you use? wouldn't you feel, at some point, 300 - 400, etc...your blood sugars were high, blurry vision, peeing, dry mouth, nausea, etc...never ever have heard blood sugars that high, i don't think someone could survive that?
I went into DKA when I was almost 25. I was in a coma for 48 hrs. I was a train wreck and they have no idea how I was still alive. I was far from violent. When I go low I turn into a real psycho and start screaming at people. My bf is really good about saying maybe you should check your blood sugar. When I was in DKA that put me in the spot to make me really aggresive in checking so I don't do it again.
I had a really bad low once too where I was acting like I was possessed by the devil or something. Just really agressive, cussing, fighting the dr's and nurses, yelling, kicking. When Im high, I get really short tempered, but I've never been agressive though, usually if Im high enough to be in DKA or borderline DKA Im barely moving.
I was asleep when my sugars start rising i get extremely sleepy and since i was already taking a nap i just went a deeper sleep. Then the paramedics disturbed my sleep and at this point i wasnt me so thats when i started fighting everything that moved.
Yikes! How long was your pump clogged for to cause a BG that high? Were you not testing regularly?
Holy smokes - hope you are feeling better!
I went DKA when I was 19 - had a heart attack (was 'dead' for 7 minutes!) and went into a 3+ day coma, got brain damage (memory probs) bc of it...
When I am high (or low, like T1Forever) I get "short" not in stature, pretty sure I'm stuck where I am, for now, at least ;) - I call it bitchy :)
I have been DKA once and it was a horrible experience. I had been sick for about a week with flu like symptoms and then I spent all night throwing up until I had nothing left and still couldn't stop. Went to the Dr that morning and they gave me something for my stomach. Get this - they wanted to give me an IV but couldn't get a vein so they just send me home and told me to drink some gatorade and that was after I told them I was diabetic. I spent the rest of the day in pain until my sides started to hurt and I couldn't hardly breath. By the time my wife got me back to the Dr I couldn't even stand on my own and I was so dehydrated I couldn't talk. My heart rate was 200 - 250 and they took me straight to the hospital in an ambulance. Once I was there the Dr said what I was before even doing a test. He said he could smell it on my breath. I spent the next few days in ICU and a week out of work. All together I would say that is as close to death as I would want to get and the most pain I have ever been in. Now it seems that it is easier for me to slip into a DKA state if I mismanage my insulin. If my BS stays above 300 to long I start to get sick. Before then my BS would be so high at times the meter would just say high and it just made me cranky - but not sick. Then I was on Shots and now I am on the pump and love it.
The most aggressive I ever got while going through DKA was this last time. They gave me something IV for nausea (wish I was sure what it was, I think Zofran) and had a reaction to it. I was irritable and restless. I couldn't stop moving, especially my legs. I remembered that I just wanted to kick someone in the face, which was disturbing to me. They eventually gave me some xanax and that knocked me right out.
I do agree with bamaman- since my first DKA it seems like I can slip into another one much easier. I've had 4 total in a period of 2-3 years. My last one was 3 years ago. I've gotten the flu once since then and was religious about testing and making sure I had everything under control. My BG were never too high with DKA because I wasn't eating anything for a day or two before I went in.