Hi
Can you tell me what your blood reading was when you were diagnosed and how you feel when you were told?
I’ll start
When i was diagnosed my blood glucose reading was 29.7, i cant remember what was told to me, i just remember being confused.
I would be very happy to know other people experiences at this moment when life changes.
Actually I just made a little video of the day I was diagnosed. Take a look! 
Mine was 300. I was in the emergency room trying to figure out was my rapid heart beat and stomach ache a ulcer, turns out it wasnt…lol…The doctor who treated me sat along side me and said I had diabetes. I asked is it the kind I could get rid of if I change my habits she said no and that I will be on insulin the rest of my life. Then she walked out the room, seriously that abruptly. I was devastated before that moment I never even been to the hospital let alone had a bad cold. The days and years after is what confused me the most, that doctor never told me which type I was and everyone else in the medical field assumed I was type 2. The problem with that is I wasnt, the original doctor either never wrote it down or no one ever bothered to look which started 3 years of misdiagnoses…
My life changing moment lasted for frustrating 3 years, lol…
809 (44.8). I was DKA & don’t remember much except I knew I was dying. Wasn’t until days later that the diagnosis sunk in. My reaction then was fear & disbelief, but also gratitude to be alive & feeling almost human.
Rachel, love your video! It’s wonderful. I was downing grape juice the day before I ended up in the ER & throwing it up I can’t look at grape juice now without feeling ill.
I’m sorry to hear that, i wish could remember what i went through but i passed out in hospital, it was scary to wake up with wires all over me and i remember knocking the heart monitor. and asking the nurse to tell me what happened.
I was 11 with BS of 973. I was sick for the week before. My parent thought it was the flu. Then they took me to a doctor and he sent me to the ER. They stuck an IV in me and drew blood. They finally told me the next day that I was a diabetic and said if I wanted to leave the hospitable I would need to learn to stick a needle in me for the rest of my life. The shock and realization did not set in for a few months.
That was a very informative video i dont understand what 590 means but as a type 1 myself im sure its high, i was 21 when diagnosed and very skinny, when i was admitted to hospital and wasn’t strong enough to walk so my mum helped me in.
I agree with you Gerri, my drink was Apple and cherry, after being sick from it i just can drink it, Thank you for your comment.
I was taken to hospital during the easter break, so i had to stay in hospital all week, i learn to use the needles while i was there but i was pretty scared about the whole thing.
Great video Rachel!
Thank you for your comment Brock
I wish I knew or remembered. I was 6 years old (almost 19 years ago) and I don’t remember how I felt. I’m not sure I was told what my blood sugar was, and I don’t think my parents would remember the exact number.
I was 10 years old and my Blood Glucose was 602 I dont remember much except being scared
19 years you must have good knowledge of this, Thank you for you comment even though you might not remember i can learn a confident approach to diabetes
Acid, I thought I had the flu also. I would have died if my husband hadn’t dragged me (kicking & screaming) to the ER.
They said i was close to death but not threatening, how did you have to energy to kick and scream i felt drained
No one in the hospital taught me how to inject. Day I was discharged, I asked a nurse to show me how to test & inject. Pretty lame.
We should start a list of the foods we can’t look at
I had pretty much decided I had diabetes due to peeing a lot, drinking a lot and weight loss. So I asked my doctor for a blood glucose test and when the nurse called me she told me my fasting was 325 - I just asked, “so does that mean I have diabetes?” So I pretty much took it in stride except for the fact that I never even gave a thought to the idea that I actually had “Juvenile Diabetes”…since I was 58 years old at the time! It wasn’t until 15 months later that I figured that out and that process involved a lot more drama than the original diagnosis!
I might be the oddball because I was diagnosed before the local hospital had their own lab equipment for blood tests.
I know they dipped the Testape in my urine and it turned jet black instantly. Same for Ketones.
I would guess that few here are old enough to remember Testape or Clinitest tablets.
The doc had strongly suspected I had diabetes before that (I had all the DKA symptoms including Kussmaul breathing and hypertacycardia) but didn’t pronounce anything until they did the Testape.
Later on when they did get the bloodwork run (I was in the hospital for a week) they told me my bg was 1800.
I don’t know:) I felt so sick & was vomiting that I couldn’t bear the thought of being moved. I passed out soon after arriving at the ER. Woke up for a brief time in ICU with tubes & monitors not knowing how I got there.