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04-09-2008, 12:23 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cape Coral, Florida
Posts: 71
| | | What is the highest BG reading you've ever gotten?
My highest was a little over a year ago. I tested before bed and it was 495. Tested a few minutes later and got 480. I went to the hospital where they did nothing for me but sat me in a room for 4 hours. Only tested me ONCE! I guess I won't bother going if it happens again.
So what's your highest reading?
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04-09-2008, 12:25 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 5,920
| | | Hgb A1C of 9.6 at diagnosis so who knows how high it was. Since diagnosis, i've had a 230 after being given "real" Mtn Dew at a restaurant.
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Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  |
04-09-2008, 12:37 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cape Coral, Florida
Posts: 71
| | | Oops just found a similar thread.... I'm such a darn nooooob!
sorry!
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04-09-2008, 12:51 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,231
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Originally Posted by Tashia  Oops just found a similar thread.... I'm such a darn nooooob!
sorry! | There are 179 noobie guest currently lurking. Things get repeated all the time, some like high morning BGs practically weekly. Don't worry about it.
My highest was 450/25 on diagnosis. I've hit 24.x a few times over the years. I don't ever recall any higher. 
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04-09-2008, 12:55 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 6,006
| | I have been in the thousand range (when diagnosed), but my meter reads HI after 450 so who knows how I have been when it gets there. Luckily, in the past few years my meter has rarely given me that greeting. 
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04-09-2008, 01:02 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cape Coral, Florida
Posts: 71
| | | Wow, in the 1000's I couldn't even imagine. When I was DX with gestational I was near 400 and was feeling all the symptoms of Ketoacidosis... it was very painful. Though when it was higher after been dx'ed with type 2 I never felt anything. I didn't urinate frequently or have dry mouth or the sharp stomach pains. Odd.
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04-09-2008, 01:16 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 5
| | | When I was first diagnosed, I was above 450. I was diagnosed after going in for a life insurance exam and had been losing weight. For a week or so, I still had reading in the 300s. Now, 11 years after diagnosis, a reading of over 200 shocks me. |
04-09-2008, 02:36 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: N. Vancouver
Posts: 24
| | | I have no idea what those figures mean. In "Canadian" terms, I've been between 19.5 and 30. |
04-09-2008, 04:12 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Royal Oak, Michigan
Posts: 844
| | | I've had my fair share of numbers above 400 and 500s. Almost always because I forgot to bolus for a meal. Never DKA though. I think because my highs are typically food related...they go up and then when I check it right back down.
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04-09-2008, 05:53 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Massachusetts, US
Posts: 375
| | | My Highest that I know of was 340 when I was diagnosed.
It hasn't been that high for at least 3 years now. |
04-09-2008, 05:58 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
Posts: 1,476
| | | I had a 512 once...really, really, REALLY bad carb mis-calculation!
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04-09-2008, 06:16 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: RURAL NSW AUSTRALIA
Posts: 204
| |  Hi
I had a Hb1c of 11.5  a couple of years back and the highest bgl I had (when I tested was 21mmols) I wasn't very compliant at that stage!!
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Humalog 3 x day
Lantus daily
Metformin 1gm 3x a day
Aticand 32mg daily
Propranalol 40 mgs 2 x a day
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04-09-2008, 06:24 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: St. Joseph, MO
Posts: 307
| | | WOW.... After a VERY heavy night of having a very good time I was 173....
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04-09-2008, 06:29 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Livonia, MI
Posts: 518
| | | An older meter read "HIGH", which I think was over 500 on that meter. That was a while ago.
I remember having a few 400s in the past few years. Always food and/or dark beer related. Grazing and drinking don't do well, carbs add up QUICKLY.
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04-09-2008, 09:06 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Mt. Dandenong, Victoria, Australia
Posts: 488
| | At diagnosis last July i was at 400 (22.1 mmol/l).
a week later at my first CDE appointment i weighed in at 308 (17.1 mmol/l).
It took me 10 days to get ANY reading below 162 (9.0 mmol/l).
i got the Bernstein book 3 weeks after i saw my CDE for the first time and within 3 days i started getting consistent fasting readings between 72 and 90 (4.0 - 5.0 mmol/l).
nowadays i get annoyed with a fasting reading over 108 (6.0 mmol/l) and a post prandial over 140 (7.8 mmol/l).
The highest reading i have had in the last six months was a few 185s (10.3 mmol/l) when i had the flu in the beginning of March.
-- Joel.
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Diagnosed: July, 2007
HbA1c's
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early July 2007: 16.2%
early Sept 2007: 8.0%
early Dec 2007: 5.9%
early Jun 2008: 6.4% (after my pancreatitis!)
triglycerides: 71 (0.8)
HDL chol: 50 (1.2)
LDL chol: 15 (0.4)
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