has this happened to anyone
At first when I suspected that my constant tiredness had to do with
my sugar, I erased that thought from my mind. I thought I was too
young. Another person at school was also a diabetic, but his case
much worse than mine. Anyhow he told me that it could be my sugar.
I laughed at him, boy did I feel horrible afterward.
One day I lay down to take a nap, (one of many) and I didn’t
wake up until a week later. What do you think happened? When I
woke up I felt alot better, but it was scary to think that I could
sleep that long. The next time I felt like that I checked my sugar
with my friends machine. It was over 600. I would not go to the
hostpital, because I have this fear. I drank over a gallon of water
and walked for what seems like miles fighting the sleep that was
overtaking me. I don’t remember alot of it, but my friends said I
was kind of out of it. Finally my numbers started to go down. It
was very scary. Has this ever happened to anyone? Now I have went
to the Dr., and they are working out my medicines. But the thought
of that happening again is still very frightening.
June 27th, 2003 at 1:18 pm
Hey! This is actually how my son’s dibetes started. He just started
drinking and urinating all the time and sleeping in between.
Seriously, the only thing he woke up for was to go to the bathroom
(and sometimes even that did not wake him up). He had asthma, and
whenever he would start to get sick from that he would sleep all the
time, so we assumed that was what it was. Well, after a couple of
days of this, I finally took him into the doc, and his blood sugar
was over 800. He was as close as you can get to being in a coma
without actually doing it. It was terrifying, and he doesn’t remember
one bit of it. Now when he is high, he doesn’t even notice anymore.
Basically, all you can do to try and prevent it is to control your
sugars. Good luck!
Melissa