Hard way to lose 12 pounds FAST
Saturday morning, I was a little dehydrated. It happens sometimes, nothing to worry about. Took my normal morning insulin shot, went and did tai chi for 90 minutes, and headed down to the chinese seafood buffet we had recently discovered. I didn't go quite as hog wild this week as last week. (That's "Crazy Buffet", on El Camino, in Sunnyvale....)
At 7pm, my blood sugar was about 150. That's high for normal folks, but not bad for me. It had come down 50 points in the previous 3 hours, which was good.
At 8:30pm, I started feeling bloated and unfocussed abdominal pain, and my blood sugar was 97. That's excellent -- but I don't generally drop that fast. Time to eat something!
Half a cracker and a glass of milk, and the vomitting started, soon followed by diarrhea. Sucked on a hard candy to stabilize sugar -- it took five(!) finger-sticks to get enough blood for a reading (103).
My partner took me over to Kaiser Santa Clara ER. Did EKG and electrolytes to make sure there was no cardiac involvement (whew!). BP 96/45 -- I'm on meds for high BP, but hadn't taken them that day, and looks like a lucky thing. They ran in two liters of fluid, with a bit of anti-vomit something and a smidge of morphine, and sent me home after some hours with a diagnosis of gastroenteritis and dehydration.
So I'm sleeping a lot, sipping rehydration formula, and gradually reintroducing solid food. And that's why I haven't gotten online *at all* in a couple of days.
At 7pm, my blood sugar was about 150. That's high for normal folks, but not bad for me. It had come down 50 points in the previous 3 hours, which was good.
At 8:30pm, I started feeling bloated and unfocussed abdominal pain, and my blood sugar was 97. That's excellent -- but I don't generally drop that fast. Time to eat something!
Half a cracker and a glass of milk, and the vomitting started, soon followed by diarrhea. Sucked on a hard candy to stabilize sugar -- it took five(!) finger-sticks to get enough blood for a reading (103).
My partner took me over to Kaiser Santa Clara ER. Did EKG and electrolytes to make sure there was no cardiac involvement (whew!). BP 96/45 -- I'm on meds for high BP, but hadn't taken them that day, and looks like a lucky thing. They ran in two liters of fluid, with a bit of anti-vomit something and a smidge of morphine, and sent me home after some hours with a diagnosis of gastroenteritis and dehydration.
So I'm sleeping a lot, sipping rehydration formula, and gradually reintroducing solid food. And that's why I haven't gotten online *at all* in a couple of days.