mikeyB
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Ooops.
Woke up on Friday morning, BG 6.2. Tried to get out of bed, and my head was reeling. Stood up, fell back on to bed and started vomiting - or trying to, on an empty stomach. Took morning Levemir, and stayed in bed. Every head movement just caused the sips of water to come back up. Anyway, staying in bed quietened things down, so just kept up the sips of water, BG staying reasonable. Slept an awful lot.
Saturday morning, worse than ever, sicking up clear fluid. BG 7.1. Took normal Levemir. Texted daughter to call round (Mrs B can't use the phone). She called round half an hour later, when my BG had gone up to 27. Next thing I knew my BG was out of range high. Paramedics arrived and found my ketones were high, not surprising as I'd had no food for a day and a half.
Soon found myself in the back of an ambulance with flashing blue lights (bit overdramatic, I thought) with a drip attached to my arm, ending up in the emergency room at Royal Blackburn and a working diagnosis of DKA. A first, for me. Bit of a bummer on no food. Drip changed to saline and insulin, and a cannula inserted to abstract half hourly bloods for glucose measurement. Moved to a ward fairly soonish, where the routine continued. No sleep that night.
Next morning the dizziness had quietened down, and had a nice weetabix for brekkie, declining the large white roll and "diabetic" jam. Still dripped up, but was told to get back on my normal insulin. Slept on and off most of the day, managed to eat some of the totally unappetising food. Drip came out, blood testing changed to fingerprick testing, but that was hourly overnight.
Anyway, still fairly sleepless, i got discharged late Monday afternoon with a couple of boxes of ketone strips for my Libre and the promise of an appointment at the Diabetes Clinic at Clitheroe hospital.
Monday night slept 11 hours, last night 12. Getting some food inside me has helped, but I'm very wobbly on my legs. Not dzziness, just weak.
Bonus: Lost 2kg, burning all that fat. Wouldn't recommend this as a weight loss program, mind. And Rovers won away at Stoke.
Lesson: For all you folk who fuss about fingerprick v Libre readings, note that the hospital only relied on full blood tests, and fell back on fingerpricks when I was in single figures. By the time I left, they were just asking what the Libre reading was.
And I still don't know what caused the initial dizziness and vomiting that kicked all this off. The hospital felt they had fulfilled their remit of making me diabetically normal, I suppose.Now I've just got to get back to confidence walking with crutches. I'll keep you informed.
Woke up on Friday morning, BG 6.2. Tried to get out of bed, and my head was reeling. Stood up, fell back on to bed and started vomiting - or trying to, on an empty stomach. Took morning Levemir, and stayed in bed. Every head movement just caused the sips of water to come back up. Anyway, staying in bed quietened things down, so just kept up the sips of water, BG staying reasonable. Slept an awful lot.
Saturday morning, worse than ever, sicking up clear fluid. BG 7.1. Took normal Levemir. Texted daughter to call round (Mrs B can't use the phone). She called round half an hour later, when my BG had gone up to 27. Next thing I knew my BG was out of range high. Paramedics arrived and found my ketones were high, not surprising as I'd had no food for a day and a half.
Soon found myself in the back of an ambulance with flashing blue lights (bit overdramatic, I thought) with a drip attached to my arm, ending up in the emergency room at Royal Blackburn and a working diagnosis of DKA. A first, for me. Bit of a bummer on no food. Drip changed to saline and insulin, and a cannula inserted to abstract half hourly bloods for glucose measurement. Moved to a ward fairly soonish, where the routine continued. No sleep that night.
Next morning the dizziness had quietened down, and had a nice weetabix for brekkie, declining the large white roll and "diabetic" jam. Still dripped up, but was told to get back on my normal insulin. Slept on and off most of the day, managed to eat some of the totally unappetising food. Drip came out, blood testing changed to fingerprick testing, but that was hourly overnight.
Anyway, still fairly sleepless, i got discharged late Monday afternoon with a couple of boxes of ketone strips for my Libre and the promise of an appointment at the Diabetes Clinic at Clitheroe hospital.
Monday night slept 11 hours, last night 12. Getting some food inside me has helped, but I'm very wobbly on my legs. Not dzziness, just weak.
Bonus: Lost 2kg, burning all that fat. Wouldn't recommend this as a weight loss program, mind. And Rovers won away at Stoke.
Lesson: For all you folk who fuss about fingerprick v Libre readings, note that the hospital only relied on full blood tests, and fell back on fingerpricks when I was in single figures. By the time I left, they were just asking what the Libre reading was.
And I still don't know what caused the initial dizziness and vomiting that kicked all this off. The hospital felt they had fulfilled their remit of making me diabetically normal, I suppose.Now I've just got to get back to confidence walking with crutches. I'll keep you informed.
Glad you were able to get help and it sounds like you were well looked after 
