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Post by devon46 on Jun 21, 2009 20:40:18 GMT -5
I have been having dizzy spells lately, and i fell the other night hitting my forhead on a piece of cement, and was unconscious.
Anyway, the ambulance ended up coming, and they poked my finger and they said my blood sugar was 6.5
Does anyone know what the normal is for that because i tried asking the paramedic, but kept blacking out, and i forgot to ask the nurse or the doctor.
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Post by Dabbit on Jun 22, 2009 1:12:42 GMT -5
Hi Devon46! Do you live in the UK? If so 6.5 is a perfect blood sugar and would indicate that you do not have diabetes. However, it is possible that if you have very high blood sugars and then they drop to 6.5 you may experience some 'hypo' signs. the only true way to find out whether you have diabetes is a blood test from your doctor.
Do you have any other symptoms besides the dizziness? Have they checked your blood pressure? Low blood pressure can make you light headed and dizzy, as too can infections and I'm sure other things besides.
In the US though they measure their blood sugars in a different way and I'm afraid I know nothing about them. Though I suspect you are in the UK as I'm pretty sure the USA readings are in their hundreds...
Please do let me know how you get on
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Post by pearlsmom on Jun 22, 2009 3:15:08 GMT -5
I sure hope you are in the UK, cause if you had a blood sugar of 6.5 in USA you would be dead!  |
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Post by bornfree on Jun 23, 2009 15:45:19 GMT -5
I live in Canada; a friend of mine is Diabetic and her numbers jump up to 8/12, she copes every day and can even miss meals; they are working on trying to get her numbers to be lower and more consistent. I think it can be different for everybody, another friend of mine who is also a diabetic if he misses a meal he becomes very dizzy and unwell.
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Post by Dabbit on Jun 25, 2009 0:17:21 GMT -5
I had an issue with a friend recently and in fact we rarely talk now over it, just Christmas and birthday etc. She never took her diabetes seriously and continued eating sweets, drinking glucose drinks, eating biscuits and cakes etc. I suggested she stopped eating such things to help herself but she ignored me and carried on. She no has to rely on a carer to do the daily things for her, and doesn't 'communicate' any longer.
It is not important but vital to take care of your diet when you are diagnosed, yes it is difficult and at an already low time it can prove very difficult. But it has to be done regardless of the difficulty.
I am not 'the perfect' diabetic by far, by I know what I can and can't eat. If I fancy a cake or chocolate bar I will test my blood sugars and if they are lowish I will have it otherwise I decline my urges.
I'm told that if your hb1ac remains too high for a lengthy period of time then it can take as little as ten years for damage to occur.
Of course you can be very well controlled and still get complications!
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