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From the lens Diabetic Coma - Scary Experience - My Story.

  • harmanrainu Mar 26, 2012 @ 4:37 am | delete
    Well a diabetic person should always follow a balanced diet.See Paleo DIet
  • holbrookesusan8 Aug 29, 2011 @ 2:17 pm | delete
    This is very scary stuff. I haven't suffered anything similar to a diabetic coma, however I have read a few blog articles extolling similar stories. I try to remain prepared by keeping a diabetes kit on me at all times. Contains some snacks, my pump, and my free diabetes test strips. Better to be prepared and not have to use the kit then to find yourself in a situation where you wish you were prepared.
  • Papier Jul 29, 2011 @ 10:59 pm | delete
    Untreated diabetes took my mother's life. It is a very complicated disease that compromises other body systems if it is not properly treated. She quit testing her blood and by the time she tested again it was 516! She was elderly, but perhaps with regular testing she would have continued to enjoy many more years of life.
  • mack881 May 20, 2011 @ 11:06 pm | delete
    Great lens, i have always been nervous of passing out or worse, from low blood sugar. It sounds like you got lucky this time, good for you! Diabetes is a terrible condition to end up with, everything from blindness to amputations and now the FDA tells us Avandia is going to kill us too. Too much
  • miaponzo Apr 26, 2011 @ 1:21 am | delete
    The main thing that people can do to keep their sugar levels balanced is to control the carb intake and keep it around 60 - 80 grams a day (or even less)....
  • Sophie Jan 20, 2011 @ 10:12 am | delete
    My mother is diabetic and she always carry this piece of card with her that states her condition and a note to call 911immediately. This works for her and at least my worries are lessened. Plus, I told her that she should never be alone and should always be with someone. One more thing, she got an insurance policy so that in case something happens, if she dies or something, at least she'll be covered and those she will leave behind will not worry when it comes to financial matters.

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  • jjooo Jan 4, 2011 @ 11:55 pm | delete
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  • Mike Rowan Sep 1, 2010 @ 11:47 am | delete
    A great resource for diabetic life insurance tips can be found at Diabetic Life Insurance Underwriting
  • Nicole B Jul 9, 2010 @ 9:01 am | delete
    I lapsed into a diabetic coma, not from low blood sugar but dangerously high blood sugar, all of my insulin was stacking, and everything i put into my body just wasnt registering. I immediately went to the hospital because my meter was no longer reading my blood sugar levels and Im pretty sure (correct me if im wrong) that home meters will not read over 600 mg/dl. I went to the hospital, vomiting, looked very skinny from the dehydration and vomiting but they still didnt beleive me that i was very sick. I begged them to take my blood sugar immediately and get me a room, because something was terribly wrong!.. about an hour later they told me i finally had a bed in the emergency.

    For about an hour, they drew blood, got me comfortable, but refused to give me insulin. Stated they wanted to rehydrate me first as this helps with bringing down the blood sugar and then continue on to insulin slowly. I remember laying in the room with my mother (im 24 years old by the way, at the time i was 22) I kept going to the bathroom constantly, vomiting constantly, to the point of green bile just coming up. My mouth was so dry my mother had to wet napkins to keep my mouth open .. my heart rate was about 165 bpm. I remember telling my mother my hearts really pounding and im scared. She just kept saying.. your alright nicole, calm down (i later came to find out that she knew something was wrong, she just didnt want to scare me, she would go out into the hall and yell at the nurses because something was wrong).. I also remember calling her Chris (thats an ex bf from yeaaaars ago) saying i was going to Tuesday night bingo (i dont play bingo!) and that i wanted to get out of this place because i was supposed to be at mandies tonight (she was my best friend at the time!) I then started to pull my insulin out of my arm and she said i acted like a mad woman. I dont remember any of this! Scary.

    She then said i went to the bathroom (which was in the emergency room i was in) and i collapsed to the floor. She said the nurse was asking me questions, i peed myself, and she was scared.

    This is what i remember from being in my coma .. In my head i was playing a video game with cars, it was all black and white, but reallllly bright. I heard the nurse asking me what game it was.. and all i could remember was that i could hear her i just couldnt respond. I tried to respond but nothing came out. It was the weirdest thing. I heard all of the bustle around me and i felt my moms hand on my arm and my face...

    I woke up a few hours later.. my mother crying, mostly happy because i came out of it. My arms were bandaged up.. i had a catheter in me, and i was in ICU the next morning. I remember staying at the hospital for a little over a week. In icu for a few days, with a catheter next to my right arm to draw blood so they didnt have to keep poking me.. and then i was moved to PCU for a few days, which is a step below ICU.. and then a regular bed where i was released.

    It was an experience I will never forget! it was extremely scary!
  • eclecticeducation Feb 4, 2010 @ 12:40 am | delete
    I found out last May that I have diabetes. I'm still trying to learn all the ends and outs of this. Thanks for writing about your experience. Blessed by a Squid Angel and lensrolled to my diabetes page.
  • HealthFreak2009 Jan 13, 2010 @ 11:07 pm | delete
    Diabetes is a scary disease. Fortunately I don't seem to have a family history of it. I pray that me and my family is able to stay away from it.
  • brooke h. Dec 9, 2009 @ 5:03 am | delete
    i remember my dad was in a high diabetic coma in the town and i was on my own with my autistic brother and it was terrible honestly i didnt know what to do so i asked someone to ring an ambulance and then he was fine then there was this other time in asda when he was sticking his head through freezers and shouting but lucozade always works! but the scariest of all was when i was in the house with my brother and i knew straight away there was something wrong because he became very tired and was making strange noises in his sleep! i went to a next door neibghour to ask for help but my brother caame out and shut the door behind him and it was one of those were u have to have a key to open it! so the ambulance came and had to break the door down and when we went in he was rolling around the floor and then all of a sudden he stopped i thiught the worst but i was taken away and when i went back to see him he was fine what did they do to him?
  • LindaJM May 11, 2009 @ 12:50 am | delete
    I forgot to add... 5* and an Angel blessing for this lens!
  • LindaJM May 11, 2009 @ 12:49 am | delete
    Diabetes can be very scary unless you get the balance just right. I'm glad you survived your ordeal. This happened once to a dear friend of mine. He became totally unresponsive and I gave him some orange juice then tested his blood sugar level at only 18. Fortunately he came out of it. I was grateful when a few months later he got a new, better medication that kept him from getting the constant scary low-blood-sugar episodes. Twice he had low blood sugars in the middle of the night and the dog, who wasn't even in his bedroom, started barking in the hallway outside his door. We believe she somehow sensed his condition and intentionally woke him up.
  • mbrownauthor Dec 3, 2008 @ 6:49 pm | delete
    Excellent, excellent lens!
  • thevascularsurgeon Nov 12, 2008 @ 5:01 am | delete
    Good lense. Another good site on Vascular Surgeon
  • Anghz Apr 11, 2008 @ 1:54 pm | delete
    I was 11 yrs old when i fainted on to concrete wich hurt alot!MY FRENDZ THOT I WAS DEAD AN MA TEACHER WAS SWEARIN!To mak it worse i was on a skool trip!!
  • Mar 2, 2008 @ 9:25 am | delete
    May I inform you some Alternative Therapy measures to control Diabetes. You may use a pinch of Cinnamon in your tea/coffee and test your sugar level after 40 days. Do some Yoga exercise for 60 days and try to feel the difference. Get more details from the site: http://tinyurl.com/245jav.
    Thanks
  • Walteriz Nov 12, 2007 @ 8:58 am | delete
    I had a coma experience a few years ago. Thank God for my family great paramedics and an ID bracelet.
  • waller5400 Sep 14, 2007 @ 6:22 am | delete
    great lens! check out my lens about diabetes vitamins here

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