[Diabetes-talk] high sugars warnings

[Blindhands at aol.com]

High blood sugars:
 
urinate more frequently and thirsty 
 
real high blood sugars:
frequent urination and extremely thirsty like you can't quench your thirst  
and your throat is so dry.
 
sugars over 600:
 
all of the above and you feel tired 
 
just prior to going into a coma:
 
frequent urination, extreme thirst, sick to your stomach, vomitting[ this  
happens due to your acetones raising high and just prior to acedosis], 
really  tired and when I was sighted light sensitivity to my eyes.  
 
My acedosis were when I was a kid and there was no such thing as home blood 
 glucose machines.  My last acedosis was 41 years ago.  With the blood  
glucose machines and the insulin regiment  that is available today I know I  do 
not think I will go into a coma now.
 
Testing your urine and acetone was all we had to work with when I was  
growing up.  As Bern says the numbers with testing the blood opens up your  
understanding of your disease.
 
My endocrinologist in Yale told me that the research being done on diabetes 
 is to create an artificial pancreas.  This will be implanted in your body  
and constantly monitor blood sugar levels and disperse  insulin to you  
according to your levels.  This research is being done over in  Europe.  Not 
sure how far it has progressed.
 
Joyce