[Diabetes-talk] What did you do?

[K C]

Hi, Joyce.  Actually I am fairly new at the whole Diabetic game.  I to took 
steroids back in late June for an Asthma episode.  I had my very first 
experience with high blood sugar.  At my highest the Prodigy said 285, and I 
was pretty slurred of speech, and yelling about wanting cake, and cookies. 
:)

Are there any other alternatives for Asthmatics in crisis, or others who 
have to take Steroids?  Seems to me like ending the Asthma attack, at least 
in my case , could have then put me in danger from high sugars, which 
doesn't seem like a fair trade off in my book.  Has anyone done any research 
on this subject?  For type twos who wouldn't normally be on Insulin how 
should such situations be handled?

I didn't have Diabetes when I last took Prednisone, and that was well over a 
year ago.  Still, I do have Asthma, and such an even could very well happen 
again.  If you, or anyone else understands my experience I'd love to hear 
from you.  The Emergency room staff were more concerned with breaking up the 
Asthma attack, and I understand that.  There just has to be some middle of 
the road to get you through taking the Steroids.  Any advice would be 
helpful.
Take care of you,

K C




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
To: <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] What did you do?


> Well my blood sugars have been all over the place in the last 50  years.
> More recently I had my highs due to steroids and a bout of asmatic
> bronchitis.  Do you know what your Prodigy meter says when you are over 
> 600?  It
> says "High".  I have had blood sugars readings such as 585  and maybe only
> twice I had the "High" reading.  I have handled these on my  own only 
> because I
> had experienced these things and I do know the symptom prior  to going 
> into
> a coma.
>
> At 585 I can function normally, but have a tremendous thirst, urinate
> frequently.  I have in the past gotten spikes like this due to forgetting 
> to
> take my insulin.  I have reacted by taking coverage according to a 
> sliding
> scale of what my doctor has set up for coverage of each 50 count past a
> decided normal for me.  I follow up with blood sugars and take more 
> coverage
> according to what they are.
>
> At times I have eaten and other times I have not eaten one or two meals,
> usually breakfast and or lunch.
>
> For me instead of thinking that one shot will do it to get it down, a few
> sshots spaced a couple of hours apart gets it down.  It does not just dive
> downward.  You do need to eat so you do not bottom out.  You can yoyo  up
> and down, too.
>
> Once blood sugar levels come down to at least mid 200 I will eat and take
> coverage for carbs and blood sugar level.  It is important for me to eat 
> at
> this point as I will bottom out and since I don't feel any symptoms  for
> low blood sugars any more, I can't tell when I am getting too low.
>
>
> I have not been in a coma since I was a teenager.  That was before  blood
> machines at home and we would test urine and acetones.    I  have been in 
> an
> acedosis diabetic coma 3 times.  Twice was while I was in a  hospital 
> under
> the doctor's care.  Back then there was not endocrinologists  specializing
> in children around me.  Not even up at Yale Medical Center  which is 1/2 
> hour
> drive from where I lived.
>
> Joyce
>
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