Seeing someone inject

[drunkenmaster]

too high blood sugar from lack of insulin can cause

"Patients (usually with type 1 diabetes) may also present with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), an extreme state of metabolic dysregulation eventually characterized by the smell of acetone on the patient's breath, Kussmaul breathing (a rapid, deep breathing), polyuria, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain, and any of many altered states of consciousness or arousal (e.g., hostility and mania or, equally, confusion and lethargy). In severe DKA, coma (unconsciousness) may follow, progressing to death.. In any form, DKA is a medical emergency and requires expert attention.

A rarer, but equally severe, possibility is hyperosmolar nonketotic state, which is more common in type 2 diabetes, and is mainly the result of dehydration due to loss of body water. Often, the patient has been drinking extreme amounts of sugar-containing drinks, leading to a vicious circle in regard to the water loss."

which can obviously be very bad, in short, can cause very bad metabolic issues which can lead to losing conciousness amongst other things and eventually coma, or can lead to very severe and quick onset dehydration which can also cause loss of conciousness. if you don't take insulin don't eat till you have done(if you have very severe diabetes), tis simple, but obviously anyone can forget anything. with any severe condition that can cause rapid onset of anything bad you should ideally keep a spare supply of whatever drug you need and let co-workers, friends, partner, family aware of what to do if something goes wrong.

 

[Minstadave]

Incorrect, not all of them need to. There are many different methods to deal with the injections.

Its by far the most common way (for type I diabetics) and most of the people you will see injecting in public will be using this method.

 

[Macca]

If your blood sugar is low enough, you'll collapse soon enough!

My dad has been diabetic for around 25 years and does it day in day out using a novopen, but when I was younger I remember the old orange capped hyperdermics being used before the pen was around.

The way I see it, its no difference to an asthma inhaler or pills in public. I think its bloody cheeky for people with needle phobias to say its 'offensive.'

I know, i'm type 1 diabetic . I was stating not taking insulin will not result in collapsing as it does the opposite, insulin lowers sugar, so not taking will mean your blood sugar levels is high.

too high blood sugar from lack of insulin can cause

"Patients (usually with type 1 diabetes) may also present with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), an extreme state of metabolic dysregulation eventually characterized by the smell of acetone on the patient's breath, Kussmaul breathing (a rapid, deep breathing), polyuria, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain, and any of many altered states of consciousness or arousal (e.g., hostility and mania or, equally, confusion and lethargy). In severe DKA, coma (unconsciousness) may follow, progressing to death.. In any form, DKA is a medical emergency and requires expert attention.

A rarer, but equally severe, possibility is hyperosmolar nonketotic state, which is more common in type 2 diabetes, and is mainly the result of dehydration due to loss of body water. Often, the patient has been drinking extreme amounts of sugar-containing drinks, leading to a vicious circle in regard to the water loss."

which can obviously be very bad, in short, can cause very bad metabolic issues which can lead to losing conciousness amongst other things and eventually coma, or can lead to very severe and quick onset dehydration which can also cause loss of conciousness. if you don't take insulin don't eat till you have done(if you have very severe diabetes), tis simple, but obviously anyone can forget anything. with any severe condition that can cause rapid onset of anything bad you should ideally keep a spare supply of whatever drug you need and let co-workers, friends, partner, family aware of what to do if something goes wrong.

True this can happen, but this takes months to get to the stage of losing conciusness and coma's. When i was first diagnosed i had high sugar for months and had a lot of these symptoms, it wasn't nice . Much longer and i could have been in a coma, for months i didn't suspect it to be diabetes, but it was in my family so i asked doctor to test for it as my family were worried about me.

 

[Macca]

Its by far the most common way (for type I diabetics) and most of the people you will see injecting in public will be using this method.

Yeah it is definately the most common way to do things. But it really depends on the insulin your taking. My old stuff i would take 2xtimes a day so didn't require at all my meals. But my new method which gives me more freedom and flexability requires it before or after meals.

Ways of injecting nowadays have improved they had to use this years ago, i used to see my uncle use it a lot, hoping i'd never have to...But unfortunately i did, but they moved onto pens.

Sorry if this offend any needle phobics .

 

[platypus]

I don't like drug taking, I'd better not see someone take aspirin because it offends me

Of course its ok

 

[meghatronic]

My mate used to do it, but warn us beforehand and turn away from the public. One of our guys used to swear (non offencively) and walk/turn away but that is as he had a massive fear of needles. No agro all round... I wouldn't expect someone to nip to the loo to take a pill... so where's the difference?

 

[MathewS]

Which injection kit, the insulin one? As you can't collapse or anything like that not taking insulin, as it lowers the blood sugar level, and high blood sugar doesn't affect you like that.

But i don't know why i'm even bothering asking as it doesn't matter.

if their blood glucose levels are high enough, they would collapse.

 

[AlexG12]

Wouldn't bother me at all, I would prolly end up staring but thats purely cos I'm intrested and always want to know more about that sorta thing :s

 

[Macca]

if their blood glucose levels are high enough, they would collapse.

As far as i'm aware you can't, unless they were high for a very long time, which caused Ketoacidosis. Mines was high for months going as high as 30mmol/l which is VERY high, but i've never heard you can collapse with high sugar, unless as i said it's for very long periods of time, like weeks/month or possibly less depending how fast you develop Ketoacidosis.

Although, i could be wrong, please show me something which shows this. I've also never been told in my life by doctors or my diabetic nurse i can collapse or anything by having high sugar.

 

[zain]

I have never seen it done in public as such though my mate did it at school. I just got disturbed about the hygiene and disease issues of it all, because he needed to get a drop of blood to test his blood pressure.

That being said, no way would I go over and give abuse or stop the person doing it.

 

[Wallace]

To all the diabetics, what blood glucose monitor do you use?

 

[Macca]

Ascensia contour, i have another one which is better an Accu-check Aviva, but to cause less hassle getting strips i stuck with the Ascensia which is also smaller.

 

[Fireskull]

When im out with my bro and he does his injection some people look, but not a bad look more of an inquisitive look, and most of the time i do it for him lolz

 

[StuntMonkeh]

My sister is a Type 1 diabetic. She usually just injects it in her stomach when she is out and about, its a bit more subtle than those tiny needles shown on the other page, she has always had the pen type ones with cartridges. Like you said going 'high' is not as bad as going 'low'. She is pretty sharp on keeping a check of her blood sugars especially when driving...