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Permalink Reply by hiroze on July 11, 2010 at 11:40am

Con Air has a goof. Nick Cage's friend in the movie starts to go into a seizure kind of thing, but you never see him eat, and it's never assumable throughout the movie that he had some kind of giant meal before the flight (meaning a high bg sugar seizure). Anyway, he acts all weak and shaky throughout the movie so he's probably having some kind of low, but still begging for insulin. At the end of the movie, he gets the insulin and then is ok (and still has no food), but i'm sure in reality, he would have crashed harder and gone into a coma at that point.

medical conditions in movies are always wrong, but i'd think they'd at least throw some effort into diabetes on screen since it's more well known than others in our culture and wouldn't really require tons of research.

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Permalink Reply by The Diabetic Welfare Queen on July 11, 2010 at 11:59am

hah... I haven't seen any of these two movies, but I'll try to pay more attention. :)

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth on July 11, 2010 at 12:22pm

It's not as though the information isn't readily available. Just some dumb screenwriter doesn't want to to his/her homework.

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Permalink Reply by Pat on July 11, 2010 at 12:45pm

It's been a while sense I saw the movie but wasn't she going to die when her BG like hit 65 and I don't even get the shakes at that.

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Permalink Reply by pancreaswanted on February 12, 2013 at 1:09am

i love the question mark after "hypo"! excellent.

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Permalink Reply by FHS on July 11, 2010 at 1:23pm

Not a movie, but my girlfriend's father was watching some version of CSI the other night and they said something about the lab tests showing that somebody was diabetic because his A1c test showed an abnormal amount of hemoglobin.

I was , like, "Ooo, doh!".

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Permalink Reply by Marps on February 11, 2013 at 5:32pm

The new TV show "Do No Harm" has the lead man being type 1 diabetic (not his alter ego, though). He is a highly regarded surgeon (brain surgeon?) and tells his boss that he cannot work nights because of his diabetes. (this is his cover to keep his alter ego from the hospital that he works because he switches to the alter at 8:25pm every night)

In addition, one episode the alter DOES get to the hospital and attempts to perform surgery on a patient, planning malicious activity. They have to test his glucose before he does the surgery as routine check points. He registers at 315 and the nurses and doctors in the room have to hold him down because he's going into a diabetic seizure. I don't know about you, but I've been over 500 several times without going into ketoacidosis, let alone into a full blown seizure.

Maybe I'M the strange one.

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on February 11, 2013 at 5:37pm

Yep, I saw that too. I don't know which was worse, the portrayal of Diabetes or of DID (Dissasociative Identity Disorder). But hey, at least they gave him insulin not juice!

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Permalink Reply by christy on February 11, 2013 at 6:35pm

Marps your not the only one! At diagnosis I was nearing 800 and not in full blown DKA yet. Crazy huh, lol.

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Permalink Reply by Brunetta on February 12, 2013 at 2:50am

What IS full-blown DKA? Maybe I have never had it? at diagnosis 45 years ago I was dehydrated and used the bathroom a lot, but those were the only symptoms I had. I think I may have had DKA when I was hospitalized for pnuemonia,in 1981. I heard it mentioned; and I did have a slow insulin drip in the ER, but I was so sick from the pneumonia it was hard to separate the illnesses. Is "full-blown DKA" when you get nauseous with stomach pains?: Yeah I have had that once when I missed a bolus ( kinked cannula) for a high carb meal and was not able to change out the set, and had no syringes with me. Yeah that was pretty Yuck...
I do not know about ther character on "Do no Harm", but I generally have so little energy at 315 that I could not attempt to do any good nor harm. And unless that 315 is a brief unfortunate spike, all I want to do when that high is sleep and urinate!! Diabetes affects us all differently; and neither it nor other numerous medical conditions receive an accurate portrayal, on a routine basis, in movies/TV.
Just enough info to "keep the story going."

God bless,
Brunetta

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Permalink Reply by christy on February 12, 2013 at 3:36pm

I dont know lol maybe and shame on me its not an ACCURATE description, I just think DKA, and nearly comatose. Or maybe at the time of my diagnosis, it had been coming on for so long, I just didn't realize I felt as BAD as I did. But It just kinda and not that I'm doubting it, people who say they've been in DKA at 300 or so. I will freely admit in the past I've let all control go out the window, and while yes I might be peeing more, but for me, and of course we know everyone is different but for me I've never even considered myself being anywhere near DKA at 300. Guess its different for all for us.

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Permalink Reply by Tim on February 12, 2013 at 6:40pm

The way I think about... spilling some ketones is not full-blown DKA. Having to pee because bg is too high, is not in itself full-blown DKA either.

I remember in the weeks before I went into deep DKA peeing a lot, and being thirsty all the time, but for most of that time I don't think I was in full-blown DKA.

A couple tell-tale signs of "full-blown DKA" from my experience 31 years ago: "Ketotic breath" (may smell like alcohol). "Hypertachycardia" (fast pulse all the time). "Deep gasping breathing" aka "Kussmaul respiration" (which I actually remember not so much as deep breathing, but rapid gasping, feeling like I was never breathing deep enough.)

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