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When you’re experiencing high blood glucose, what symptoms do you typically experience? Select all that apply!
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Unlike the unmitigated hell of low BG, I feel nothing with highs 400, 500, 600. Meh?
Looking at my CGM I see that my high for the day was 94. I seldom get above 125. This is low carb eating and MDI.
My BG is often above 200 or 250, but this does not last for extended periods of time, just for short bouts after eating.
The only time I have felt the one symptom of increased urination was when I was first diagnosed and also during DKA after a surgery. I assume hyperglycemia needs to last a certain length of time or be above a level for me to experience symptoms.
At 140-150 I get horrid heartburn – my own personal CGM alert system I ‘spose. I learned early on that that was a great alert system, long before we had CGM’s. I appreciate it.
I was coming to say much the same! And at the same threshold, which is really interesting — it’s not what people would think of as particularly high, but I absolutely feel it at that point.
I chose malaise but the truth of the matter is, I can’t really describe what I feel when my blood sugar skyrockets and it happens much less often now that I have Tandem CQI. Ironically, a friend was just asking me what high blood sugar feels like to which I responded “I can’t really tell you”. But I sure can tell anyone what low blood sugar feels like!
Have to be very high for symptoms to occur
Feeling extremely tired is the only symptom I can remember because thanks to Dexcom I no longer hit 300-400.
I have neuropathy in my feet and when my sugar is high, my feet feel really uncomfortable.
Makes me feel drunk. I get real flipping funny!😂
It’s been years since I’ve had any lengthy high glucose values, thus I rarely have any notable symptoms. This initially was the result of moving from MDI to a pump (and a CGM).
Oddly I just feel off. I feel it in my blood. This awareness has been increased ever since the miraculous BG improvements via the Minimed 780G whereby I’m usually flatlined through the day in range >90% most days. With a BG >200, I instantly feel it and need to correct manually which the pump then readjusts me down.
I don’t feel anything different until my bg is over 400. When my meter test tells me that I’ve reached the Extreme High level (600+) my skin becomes very itchy ad I’m hot. Fortunately that has only happened a few times that I’m aware of. Since starting to use a CGM in 2017 I’m well aware, long before I get to the 400+ level, and can take a correction bolus or, more likely, injection.
Additional Other:
Tightness in chest
Not sure what this question considers high blood glucose. I usually don’t feel anything unless my bg’s are over 300 (which is very rare) and then it’s usually thirst.
As most of you have already commented, I don’t get long lasting highs very often. Steroids can put me into that condition. Most commonly, it happens when I forget to take my insulin before a meal. I checked “irritable.” I get irritable and grrrrrumpy!
This is hard for me to answer. I takes medications for allergies and depression/anxiety. All of those cause dry mouth and the dry mouth causes excessive thirst. So I can’t tell what’s causing those symptoms. 😬🙄😳
The foremost feeling for me is that I feel tired and not willing to do anything, lethargic. For me, I start to get this when bg is getting close to 10 (180).
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Thank you.
I checked “None.” Have to get up in the range of 250+ to feel anything at all really, and I almost never let that happen since the bad old days, what with tools like CGM and faster insulin. If there’d been a box for “Annoyed at myself for screwing up,” I’d have checked it, but that’s not really a symptom is it.
The typical low glucose symptoms.
High energy,
Symptoms are not significant for me until I reach close to 300. 250-300 I will be thirsty and have a dry mouth. Again, it depends how fast the BG rises as to how severe the symptoms are.