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Originally Posted by chopin  .... One showed levels of 15.0 mmol/l (270mg/dL), the other 25 mmol/l (450mg/dL). Both were done in the morning at 8am. Doc sent me to hospital, I also had ketones of +3 on the urine test and sugar in my urine. My lifestyle for the last 2 years has been below sedate. It has been **** right lazy, with an intake of carbs that is disgracefull. .... |
That sounds like T1 to me too. Very high blood glucose together with ketones doesn't leave much room for doubt.
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Originally Posted by chopin ....
-Am I honeymoooning?
-Am I type 2 and was in a state known as alcoholic ketoacidosis?
-Am I pre-diabetic, which due to alcohol and bad diet went into DKA?
-Am I non-diabetic who was in alcoholic ketoacidosis with high BS [hyperglyceamic] (according to the studies its rare but possible)?
-Is it possible my natrual dawn phenomonon reading is exceptionally high and has possibly caused a false diagnosis?
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You are honeymooning. T2s don't go into ketoacidosis. It only happens when there is inadequate insulin. Ketones are a by-product of using protein and fat for energy. It is very unlikely that what you had was alcoholic ketoacidosis. If this was the case, you wouldn't expect to have had high blood sugar, and triglycerides would have been very high. And, no it is not possible for such high fasting blood glucose to be caused by dawn phenomenon in the absence of diabetes.
A moderate amount of alcohol won't do you any harm as a T1. But you need to get familiar with how it affects blood sugar, especially when you are using insulin. More important, IMO, is to stop smoking. It causes cumulative damage over a long period of time which, as a diabetic, you really want to avoid.
