I want to go into the medical field when I’m older, and so whenever i hear some medical thing, i want to know what it is. I’ve done a little research on DKA, but i want to know from someone who’s had it, what REALLY happens. not just what it is, but what you feel and that sort of things. What kind of tests do they do and who does them? Also, if any of you know any good medical sites that i could check out, sould youlet me know? Thanks!
Cammie, i know that alot of people do ask questions that people could jut look up, but as i said, i did look it up. I found alot of stuff about it, i just wanted to know from people that have had it what it is really like from their point of view. That’s all.

i was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last year and i went into severe DKA and was in the hospital (icu for two days) for a total of 3 days.
basically DKA happens when your blood sugar is high enough for long enough that your body is way way overcompensating for its lack of insulin (and lack of anyway to convert the sugar into energy) that it starts spitting out acids that eat your fat and your muscle.
for me, it all happened fairly quickly. even though i had had high blood sugar for at least 3 or so months, i didnt start having noticable symptoms until the a month before i was actually diagnosed.

basically it felt like this: i always had to pee and the thirst factor was unbearable. i could drink like a huge thing of water, gatorade, milk, etc and still feel like my mouth was pure cotton. i also had a hard time breathing. it was as if i had just run a marathon if i would just walk somewhere. i was SUPER hungry but hardly ate because my food all tasted somewhat like metal. when i was finally taken to the hospital and diagnosed i had lost around 30 lbs. i am a fairly small framed girl (on average i weigh between 125 and 130 lbs) and at the end i was around 98.

as far as my diagnosis, they did a blood test where they just drew blood (just like a normal blood draw) and sent the blood in to a lab for results. my blood sugar came back at almost 800 and my dehydration was almost life threatening as well as the low amount of potassium in my body. when i went to the hospital they did lots of blood tests, they also gave me potassium pills and had me on an insulin drip overnight while i was in icu just to get my blood sugar down. hope that helps a little. theres tons of sites on this stuff….just google it.

I want to go into the medical field when I’m older, and so whenever i hear some medical thing, i want to know what it is. I’ve done a little research on DKA, but i want to know from someone who’s had it, what REALLY happens. not just what it is, but what you feel and that sort of things. What kind of tests do they do and who does them? Also, if any of you know any good medical sites that i could check out, sould youlet me know? Thanks!
Cammie, i know that alot of people do ask questions that people could jut look up, but as i said, i did look it up. I found alot of stuff about it, i just wanted to know from people that have had it what it is really like from their point of view. That’s all.

i was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last year and i went into severe DKA and was in the hospital (icu for two days) for a total of 3 days.
basically DKA happens when your blood sugar is high enough for long enough that your body is way way overcompensating for its lack of insulin (and lack of anyway to convert the sugar into energy) that it starts spitting out acids that eat your fat and your muscle.
for me, it all happened fairly quickly. even though i had had high blood sugar for at least 3 or so months, i didnt start having noticable symptoms until the a month before i was actually diagnosed.

basically it felt like this: i always had to pee and the thirst factor was unbearable. i could drink like a huge thing of water, gatorade, milk, etc and still feel like my mouth was pure cotton. i also had a hard time breathing. it was as if i had just run a marathon if i would just walk somewhere. i was SUPER hungry but hardly ate because my food all tasted somewhat like metal. when i was finally taken to the hospital and diagnosed i had lost around 30 lbs. i am a fairly small framed girl (on average i weigh between 125 and 130 lbs) and at the end i was around 98.

as far as my diagnosis, they did a blood test where they just drew blood (just like a normal blood draw) and sent the blood in to a lab for results. my blood sugar came back at almost 800 and my dehydration was almost life threatening as well as the low amount of potassium in my body. when i went to the hospital they did lots of blood tests, they also gave me potassium pills and had me on an insulin drip overnight while i was in icu just to get my blood sugar down. hope that helps a little. theres tons of sites on this stuff….just google it.