Lets play high/ low. What's your highest and lowest reading you recall, EVER?
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Permalink Reply by Tom Goffe on -
My highest was a 1,440 and I test 8X per day. Food poisoning got me. I was unconscious when found by my bride upon her return from an extended trip. Our volunteer EMS gave me an IV of dextrose plus a glucose bolus which is what shot my BG into the stratosphere. As is so often the case, wildly erratic readings like mine or kristalnscott's are not necessarily the fault of the individual but can result from a variety of factors.
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Permalink Reply by kristinalscott on -
yes I test very often...now! I was going through some tough times and the stress and such made it impossible to take care of! I just put my husband in jail for assault, going through a divorce, raising two kids on my own, and having to go back to work with two young babies! I passed out and when I was found, 2.5 days later I was near dead! Rushed to Toronto General and in a coma for 8 days on life support, with renal failure (which are back to normal now). my family was told to expect me to die! Then I woke up! It was a horrible experience and not something that I am proud of, but you can't live in the past, gotta forget about all that has happened and keep going forward =)
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Permalink Reply by Michael McClure on -
That is an astoundingly high BG. Wow.
574 at dx on 1/12/82 (I don't think I've ever been higher)
23 (and I actually had the wherewithal to test myself, though I couldn't think what to do once I saw that number...)/\/\
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Permalink Reply by Nel on -
I was 342 when I was diagnosed and I don't think I've gone higher than that, although breakfast continued to spike me back up into the 300s right after I was diagnosed.
My lowest blood sugar was 32. I was in the middle of eating a slice of pizza. I was experimenting with splitting the bolus to avoid spikes from fatty foods, so I had only taken half the dose of insulin I needed to the cover the meal. I still went low! I'm still confused by the incident--who goes low while chewing on a pizza crust? But I don't particularly care to have pizza for a while, so I guess it's a good thing. ;)
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Permalink Reply by ahe05a on -
Ihave an 11 yr old and an 8 yr old who are both T1
11 yr old High HIGH (over 500 that's as high as our meter goes)
and Low 40
8yr old High 695 at diagnosis
LO (below 20) 1 week after diagnosis. (He was 19 months old)
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Permalink Reply by Tim on -
High 910
Low 22
High was the day i finally went to see the doc and was told I was T1
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Permalink Reply by Tabacblond on -
414 -DX at my dictor's office they couldn't see exact numbers so I've walked to emergency room nearby, lol
37 and didn't feel it coming. Was taking a walk with my baby in a stroller. Happend to be in a lonely place in the park, with 1 year old. Scary
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