Diabetic Ketoacidosis: Symptoms & My Story
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2019
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Thought i would share some good news, not certain you remember me im a new diabetic and your one video really helped me..and you sent a very encouraging message.
Any ways its only been since 4/20 i was diagnosed (a1c of 11.4) and today 6/26 and I've gotten my a1c down to 7.2 !! And I have to thank you for your help and support. .
i do remember! thats INCREDIBLE! congratulations!! what did you do to get it down so quickly?? I'm so proud of what you've accomplished, you're taking care of yourself and therefore removing the high chance of complications later. amazing, congrats again
@@KarolinaSays I've also lost 52lbs already, im doing very strict keto staying below 20 net carbs a day and intermittent fasting eating within an 8-hour hour window and fasti g 16 hours a day.
My blood has not been above 132 since june 1st..
Thank you for being the support I need right now. I went into dka twice, when I was diagnosed and then again about a week ago. I’m only 18 and it’s very scary and painful and it’s all because I didn’t want to accept my diabetes and take care of myself. It caused a kidney infection that got to my blood, thankfully I had plenty of wonderful doctors and nurses take care of me. I’m trying to get back on track and live my life while taking care of myself because after seeing my mom cry because of how much pain I was in made me feel so selfish. It’s hard to explain to people who don’t have diabetes how frustrating it can be to stay on top of everything but in the end it’s always going to be there and the only thing I can do is take control of it.
Glad you are back on and doing so much better. Looking forward to recipes!
Lisa Hopson thanks so much! There are a lot I just need to get a new lens so I can record them on my DSLR instead of my phone 🤗
Nice to see you back Karolina. Scary life when things go so wrong. Keep well. xx
thank you so much
No apologies……you are wonderful dealing with an insidious disease. You got this!
Another great video Karolina, I have had DKA twice both times when I was alot younger, 6 and 8 years old but I still remember how bad it made me feel and both times in hospital for several days.
Great to see you back, keep fighting and keep winning :)
thank you my friend. its a terrible feeling and it really does take a toll on your body. it took me about 3 days to fully regain my strength and feel okay. look forward to hearing from you as always
@@KarolinaSays When I was diagnosed with T1 I had full blown DKA and got rushed to the hospital. You are right, it is absolutely horrible, hits you like a freight train, and wreaks havoc on your body. BG level was ~360, which is not THAT high compared to other diagnosis stories, but the ketone body levels went through the roof. It took doctors almost a week to flush them all out, and even large dosages of IV (!!) insulin barely worked until they were gone. Easily one of the worst weeks of my life.
I am 22 and got diagnosed with type 1 around Easter with DKA, was in hospital for 6 days. It was a horrible experience for me as I had the symptoms that you described over the course of a couple of days so it really made me think how lucky I am that I didn't go into a coma as type 1 diabetes and DKA ever crossed my mind. Thanks for another great video and I am glad your back making videos.
Wheezy oh wow I’m so sorry you went through that. You are definitely very lucky that you were able to get the help you needed without any serious damage. How are you doing now? How are you adjusting to life with diabetes ?
@@KarolinaSays It was hard at first but videos like yours helped me loads to come to turns with it and learn to deal with it a lot, waiting for my first HBA1c result back, which my blood sugars have been between 5 and 7
Thank you for sharing Karolina! I have always heard about dka but never knew what it really was about.The highest I have ever been was around 370! Im doing what i can to keep it under control. Those big drops can be tiring. When I had the same eye surgery done I was @ 58 cause I couldn't eat anything. I come out of surgery & they check it again, I'm at 175. Needles to say after all that I needed a nap LoL. I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way. I guess that's one way to learn! Glad your back, & hope your doing well. Looking forward to the next video 🤗💚💙💜
Anesthesia raises blood sugar I've noticed after surgery i usually average 200 until its completely out of my system. 370 being your highest is an accoplishment. i think most poeple i know with T1D have hit upwards of 450 or 500. i so glad you're doing well and keeping your sugars under control!! its always good to hear from you. stay healthy and well xo
Thanks for sharing your story. Happy to hear you're doing well now. 🙂
Teal Elliott thank you and thank you ❤️
Thank you for sharing this. It is so important. My adult son had DKA.......that's how we found out he had type 1 diabetes. Started out thinking he had bronchitis because he was run down and coughing. Took him to a quick care thinking we'd head home with antibiotics.......so wrong, ended up in the hospital where his heart stopped 3 times. A total miracle that he survived and is still with us. In hindsight I remember things that should have been red flags, but didn't notice it at the time. He would drink tons of water, and sometimes his breath smell like nail polish remover. Otherwise he looked fine, so didn't concern me. I'm so glad you called for an ambulance and got taken care of. Thanks again for sharing your story, it could seriously save someone. Have a great day! :)
Vickiet253 oh wow how scary! I’m so glad he is okay. It’s such a dangerous condition and you’re right we just don’t notice the red flags at the moment when in hind sight we knew something wasn’t right. My hope is to help people and to bring awareness because I felt so ignorant for such a long time. Honestly we just learn from going through things but it’s always good to feel like we really not alone.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I am a medical student and I learned so much from this video.
Thank you for sharing your story. It is important for people to share their stories so that others can learn and pay attention to their own symptoms! DKA Awareness is crucial.
Group Medical Supply, LLC yes you’re so right! I really never knew a lot about it until it happened to me and how badly it really affects your body. So scary.
So glad you were able to get this taken care of. The severe dehydration is what is so dangerous with DKA.
I had a similar situation. I had started on a new type of pump. I won't give the brand name, but it was a tubeless system. I noticed my sugar rising and it was not corrected with bolus. I changed the infusion set. I bolused again and waited. BS continued to rise. I got to the point where I was above 500. I then injected myself to get it back down. I was experiencing many of the same symptoms that you described. When I took the new set off and found there was an insertion issue. This pump system had an unusual insertion method.
Once I got my bs going in the right direction, I called the tech support. I had 2 infusion sets fail. There solution was to mail me 2 new sets. After several more calls to the company the next day, and receiving lousy customer service. I boxed everything thing up and shipped their system back to them.
Ugh I’m so glad you’re doing okay too. Our pumps are so important and when those items malfunction it’s dangerous and a nightmare for us. Were you able to get on a different pump?
I’m sorry you had a bad experience with them too you definitely did the right thing. Something like an insulin pump is too important for us to feel like we are not treated right by the company.
Wishing you the best! ⭐️
@@KarolinaSays this was probably about 12 years ago. The company is still around, so hopefully they have gotten their issues worked out. I still had my old pump at that time, so was able to use that. I had quite a time getting a refund sent to the insurance company. Initially they denied the refund. After giving some very negative feedback about this company, on a diabetes blog, the nurse practitioner who ran the blog contacted someone high up in the company. The next day I received a phone call that I was being refunded.
I ended up getting a new pump from the company I had originally been with.
I ended up in the ER with chest pain and that’s when I was diagnosed LADA. My A1c was 14 and sugar over 600. I had been crazy exhausted and had awful leg cramps. Glad you’re feeling better!
wow, that is so scary. how is your health now? i hope you are doing well xo
Karolina Pawelek much better, thanks!! I’m on Lantus and Novalog. I’m still working on getting my numbers consistent. I’ve had a few lows the past few days. I see a Diabetic Educator every 2 weeks and my doctor monthly. I work at an animal shelter and don’t think a pump and CGM are a good choice for me due to dogs jumping up on me. I’d love to see more of your meal planning tips and ideas!
So Glad You are taking better care of yourself.
C. Robbins R.N.
Happened to me...I want from normal to comma in 3 hours, felt like a sickness bug, I was diagnosed as type 2 but I was Lada type 1, I was not on insulin, I lost 5 stone in weight over months until I eventually my body gave up and a went dka and comma, I was in hospital for 5 days and a insulin drip and other stuff, couldn't eat for two days, very lucky I lived, doctors said 20 more minutes without ambulance I'd have died. I had no idea it was dka just thought I had a bug, I couldn't stand, I drank littres and puked litres with brown bile in it .... nothing quenched my thirst, once in a coma I puked all over myself and the bed and was talking nonsense, my wife at this point called an ambulance, I have no recollection of anyone coming or and ambulance I woke up next day in hospital with 6 doctors around me saying they got me back, I suffered heart enlargement and was sent for a stent for possible heart attack, I also had kidney problems, I'm now on insulin tresiba and novo rapid and doing ok, hope this helps anyone in some way love from the uk. NHS saved my life.
Was scrolling & ran across your page. I'm a type 1 diabetic also. Even with the insulin, My sugar still runs Crazy high. Usually to High to read on my meter. But, Girl. You are Drop dead Gorgeous I Am in LOVVVVVE!!!!!!
Great information and i am still struggling to keep my Blood Sugar down but working at it. Your a great inspiration that diabetes and kidney disease can be controlled.
Daniel J. Andrade I appreciate you saying they so much though I definitely feel like my blood sugar can be WAY more controlled. But I guess things can always be better
@@KarolinaSays Yes some days better than others but its a work in progress.
I have have been type one for 50 years now. I spent 10 days in intensive care for this. I now have /on the Dexcom 6 GBM system that has saved my diabetic life. Glucose Blood Monitoring system when used correctly will keep us from this terrible condition. It’s easy and you will always know what your blood sugars are at from one minute to the next 24/7.
Great video. Hope you're doing well. From one diabetic to another.
JuSTiCE thank you so much! Same to you ❤️
Hi hun! So recently in the past couple of months I occasionally get dizzy including the following- hot flashes, stomachache (sometimes), and then I have had a time when I have tried to talk but just could not get the words out of my mouth or I mess up on what I’m saying on accident, I have had times where my vision goes black and even times when things look 3D almost like being drunk but I’m not. Do you think these could be possible be symptoms of diabetes? A lot of family on my mothers dad side are diabetic. Plus extreme fatigue when waking up in the morning, and very bad headaches first thing after I wake up. Sorry for the long comment, and thank you so much for your video!
Loved your video and your story
Great video
Lady Likeables thank you so much 💕
Thank you this helps!
My mom went into Dka she was throwing up at first she had already went to the doctor but said it was the stomach versus she came home throwing up all night she got in the shower and after she got on the couch and she started saying she could not breath that’s when we rushed her to the hospital she is finally in icu and getting much better it took a lot of prayers 😇but I’m so thankful for her and I do not know what I would do without her I just couldn’t make it but anyways not everyone can efford insulin it’s hard I just pray that everyone does not have to go through what I went through with my mom and I don’t want to have to go through it again with my mom 😢🙏🏽
Thank You so much for Sharing your story With Us #T1D ❤ 😊😊
Abdikani Daib of course!! It definitely needs to be talked about ❤️
My mom passed away from keto acidosis thanks for the video
I had this i felt good still my sugar was 1300 my vision was blurred a little but i felt good ended up in the er 18 days almost died great story
Woah, 1300?! Omg you're a miracle to be alive! I'm here type 2 complaining of high 300's for am fastings with positive ketones. I'm probably whining.
Take care :)
Please do more meal preps with carb count!!!!!!! Pleaseeee
Hey Karolina, you look great by the way. Been wondering where have you been in the last few weeks but nice to see you back. You need to call your boyfriend or your parents/family when things like that happen, sleeping in the car or driving home in this condition??? If you have people around you, you should lean on them to help you in these situations.
What is your plan for the summer? Any trips?
You’re absolutely right and I definitely have a hard time asking for help and tend to feel like a burden. (No one has ever made me feel this way, it’s definitely all in my head.)
We just got back from a trip to lake Havasu in Phoenix. Nothing major planned, just enjoying the heat ☀️ how about you?
Your gorgeous you look so beautiful with curly hair
When I ended up in Intensive Care I went because I passed out from not breathin. I walked into the emergency waiting room and as soon as I spoke to a nurse I was immediately taken for xrays. They said I was green and the guy said definitely DKA. After trying to sit up for x Ray's I was throwing up everywhere, couldn't see, everything was flashing through time I couldnt make sense of a lot of things. Next thing you know I'm being told I might need to be put into medical induced coma, I just nodded hoping that I wouldn't have to feel that pain anymore. Last thing I remember was being played back and had a mask put over my face that knocked me out the minute it touched my face. My breathing was way to rapid none of the oxygen was getting into my lungs because they where 50% full on the bottom left lung and top right was filled with the pneumonia bacteria. After that I was a week of a breathing tube feeding tube and constant checks on my fever that reached 105°f. I had a few instances of waking up after the tube was removed for whatever it was they kept sticking down my throat to make me throw up. Horrible stuff.... I'm scared of ever going back to that. I dont remember 95% of it but the parts i did really freaked me out. It's hard to think about it.... I get scared everytime I think about ever going into that place.
You definitely want to limit the amount you drink when you’re feeling like you don’t have enough. May be a leader or so at a time. Because if you drink too much it could affect other things. But good story, I’ve had that happen to me on occasion with my blood sugar being in the 700s, and then dropping low because of insulin. Although I never know what my sugar is until I test it because I don’t seem to be sensitive to wet my sugar levels are. I know it’s weird but I can’t feel highs or lows.
You got good advice here. The severity of DKA is often still underestimated.
Gotta correct you on ketosis vs. ketoacidosis though. They are actually closely related. Ketosis is a controlled (!) burning of fat for purposes of fueling the cells. Well, not fat directly. The liver converts fatty acids to ketone bodies first, since fatty acids can't pass cell membranes freely, while ketone bodies can. Most cells can use ketone bodies as fuel (not all - red blood cells can't, some areas in the brain can't, and a few others). What little glucose is still needed is provided both by the few carbs you still eat in keto and by gluconeogenesis (metabolism of fat, and to some degree, protein, to glucose).
The rate of ketosis and gluconeogenesis is driven by the insulin level in your blood. During ketosis, you still have some insulin, so the ketogenesis and gluconeogenesis are in check, and everything is okay. During keto_acidosis_, there's no insulin, so these two processes are completely uncontrolled and go into overdrive. Uncontrolled ketogenesis produces tons of ketone bodies (which acidifies the blood, hence the "acidosis" in DKA), uncontrolled gluconeogenesis raises the blood sugar levels, and of course any carbs you eat will not make it into cells due to lack of insulin, so your blood sugar increases even more. Also, both processes catabolize fat and protein rapidly since they are totally unconstrained due to absence of insulin, which is why you lose weight quickly during DKA (and why you lose both fat and muscle). It can also lead to protein in the urine due to the large degree of protein catabolization going on. Fortunately, this type of proteinuria usually goes away quickly after treating DKA, so it is no sign of kidney damage.
So, essentially, ketoacidosis is out-of-control ketosis.
Also important to note is that high blood sugars are a byproduct of DKA, they are not the cause. There's even euglycemic DKA (DKA with normal blood sugar levels), which can happen for example in people who take SGLT-2 inhibitors.
yes but acidosis does almost never happen in healthy people, literally almost impossible to pump up the ketones to such a level. now diabetics especially type 1 have an issue with insulin so its possible
@@DarkoFitCoach Yep. The important bit is the total absence of insulin, which very rarely happens otherwise. In non-diabetics, it most likely happens due to intense alcoholism, though alcoholic ketoacidosis has different symptoms.
@@dvdv7777 ya for sure. so 1 of the scare tactics against keto is KAD but its never an issue unless kidneys and pancreas are sick and people abuse substances etc. keto is amazing diet and combined with IF its a breakthrough
@@DarkoFitCoach Yes, that's because "ketosis" sounds so similar to "ketoacidosis", and because people immediately get scared when they hear about ketone bodies. In reality, everybody has some degree of ketone bodies in their blood, even outside of ketosis (the level is then very low though).
@@DarkoFitCoach , Yes, true, usually in Type 1 but not in Type 2. I do feel sorry for people with Type 1 Diabetes due to more complications compared to Type 2. Type 1 can never be without a pump or to inject Insulin and Type 2 can get off all medications & Insulin Injections by using the Keto Diet.
My brother didn't know he was diabetic. He died from DKA last month Sept 9th. He had symptoms and was worried. He made a doctor appointment but was never able to see the doctor because he passed away before he could go 😞. Everyone get regular check ups.
I'm so sorry! My brother passed Sept 24th at age 46. He had type 2 at age 23 diagnosed, but managed it, great weight, ate good. He was diagnosed with congenital heart disease 5 yrs ago. High blood pressure. Then his kidneys were being affected and diagnosed with stage 5 kidney failure 2 yrs ago. Took really good care of him self. Last yr he had to have 2 stints in his heart. Then unexpectedly, he passed away. He wasn't being well a couple of days b4, we thought he had a cold... damn, it wasn't that... its completely heart breaking that he's gone.
I'm praying for you! I believe in God and that our brothers are with our Lord and they're healed! God bless...❤
I was watching this because I'm type 2 and my sugars are kind of high, upper 300's am fastings. I just bought keto sticks, they are pink. I'm not sure what to do. Take care everyone! God bless
@@BPb123 wow I am sorry for your loss as well. We both lost our beloved brothers. God will continue to strengthen us. Stay strong.
@@traceyturner9428 Thank you💖
We’re you in pain when you went into dka? I was recently in the hospital for dka and was in such intense pain I couldn’t function, I was not coherent or anything. I’m just curious if other diabetics experience that
Whilst reading this t.co/gMtH8bDwLF , my blood sugar level is 300 and my A1c was 11.5%. That is what I have come across two months ago. I exactingly adopted it . And it worked for me personally. I could not contain my joy as I discovered that my average PP sugar level was lowered to One hundred forty.
Felt Like a bad sickness bug the worst ever for me
Thanks for sharing your story. Hope your feet are doing better. :)
French River Springs doing much better! Thank you so much 😊
I was wondering do you ever experience muscle cramping? Thanks for sharing your stories.
i don't really get muscle cramping BUT i get VERY restless at night. sometimes if i try to sit through a movie i have to keep moving my legs and arms because they hurt so much. (not sure if its the same as actual cramping) i read up on this being a symptom of diabetes and I researched that stress and caffeine can bring on these muscle cramps/paints.
@@KarolinaSays low magnesium can cause this, there are 8 types of magnesium for muscles- magnesium glycinate. talk to dr. for amount to try
make sure to keep an eye on ur insulin val. being outside the fridge for months, they can loose power. i worked for animas n medtronic pump
This has absolutely happened to me many times. I use the omnipod, & I've had close to Dka .
I never think to change mine either, but now I do.
the KANDEEGURL I’ve been interested in the Omnipod but lately I’ve been hearing people have had issues with their infusion sites with it. I hope they’re able to fix it!
I know it’s crazy in the moment it’s like you just can’t think straight. 😞
Please be careful. I just lost my baby brother to diabetic Ketoacidosis.
We're you not in dka at diagnosis
facebook com/groups/naturalkidneyjourney lease check this group out. Who knows it might help you.
Poor Mila Kunis