My husband has gotten both “HI” and “LO” readings from his monitor. I don’t remember what the limit of the monitor is on the upper end, but I think it is 20 on the low end.
I remember the last time he got a “HI” reading he was not feeling any symptoms. He was really grumpy though! His “LO” reading was recently and was in the early morning. He got up because he felt “a little low”. I didn’t know about it and kept sleeping. When I came down the next morning it looked like the kitchen had been ransacked!
High of 950 (I was in DKA and Adrenal Crisis) the day of my dx yet no c peptide or antibody test despite a week in the ICU
Low of 45 during an insulin tolerance test.
High: 856 (at diagnosis, right after Christmas, snow storm, ER visit to inpatient to 3 days in ICU to 3 days in acute care. First time I had ever heard of an IV being started on the top of a foot, lol. Severely dehydrated, was said to be “pumping powder.”)
Low: 43
Man, I’m glad I’m not the only one who has made the mistake of mixing up the Humalog and Lantus, lol. I mixed up my night time dose of 29 U Lantus and took 29 U Humalog. Realized it right when I went to put the insulin back up and saw the Humalog instead of the Lantus. First I wondered “What’s the Humalog doing out, I got the Lantus… OH &$(*^#!!!” So after giving myself a heart attack, I figured that since it was close enough to dinner, I could use that carb ratio to figure how many carbs I would need to counter the Humalog. That ended up being approx 232 carbs!!! So 8 cups of fruit juice later, and my blood sugar staying at 170 for the next 2 hours during the peak, I’m still alive to tell about it. Don’t plan to mix them up again anytime soon!!! First major mistake in approx 14 years.
I completely know what you are talking about with the vomiting flu stuff. As a kid, once I started vomiting, I couldn’t keep anything down at all. I haven’t had the issue of being low during that time, but that would really suck. Good thing is the last 2 times I have started vomiting, I have been able to stop it and get liquids down me. Don’t really want to break my current running streak of 6 years without a major sickness.
woow… 12? and yes that’s how my lows are sometimes… i don’t act completely normal but no one would suspect anything…
although mine has never been 12 before though…
If it was that high before the test, then why in the world did the doctor continue with the glucose tolerance test??? To me that would be a no brainer, “Yup, your diabetic.” Wow.
