I have been prescribed Insulin for my Celulitis. Could I go into a coma when asleep?
Last night I woke up at 3 a.m., was feeling faintish. When I checked my blood for sugar, the reading was 60. Is it possible to get a coma while asleep.
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The first thing that makes absolutely no sense: Why were you prescribed insulin for cellulitis? Insulin is a treatment for diabetes. Cellulitis is treated with antibiotics. Are you sure the cellulitis wasn't a symptom of untreated/undiagnosed diabetes?
Secondly, if you take insulin, low blood sugar is a risk any time. This is especially scary if you are sleeping. Test your blood sugar before going to sleep. I generally like to be about 120 before I go to sleep, but you need to take into account any insulin that is still working when you go to sleep. Keep glucose tabs or other fast acting sugar by your bed so if you wake up with low blood sugar you won't have to think too much.
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yes its really possible to go into a coma while asleep but i don't know if ur diabetic but i am and i find that my body wakes me when my sugar levels are down. i dont know why it does it but i will wake up after being in the deepest of sleeps. make sure u keep a bag of candy beside ur bed and have a good snack before going to bed aswell. if you keep waking throughout the night with low bsl maybe u should go to the doc and have it checked outwhat do you think about bariatric surgery?
I agree with Dreeamer86.Its a strange one but I also find that I wake up if my sugars are low.Like some sort of early warning system.Drink a small glass of sugary soft drink and stay out of bed and awake until you feel ok.Maybe a light snack to if you can manage it.
Yes, I have already gone into a coma. What my doctor told me to do is have a 9:30pm snack or a bedtime snack (I usually have a bowl of cereal and milk) and to check my sugar in the middle of night around 3:00am. If i'm low, I drink a juice box (6oz) Capri Sun. It usually raises my sugar 100 points in 15 min.
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Infections are treated, as another answere has noted, with antibiotics, not insulin. Since insulin is dangerous, perhaps even fatal, for non-diabetics, this is very hard to make sense of. There is a possiblity your clinician may be making a mistake, and a dangerous one. I would seriously suggest getting a second opinion.But I can think of one possible reason for doing so. infections characteristically cause a rise in blood glucose, and it's just possible (though very unlikely) that your doctor noticed such a thing and decided it was dangerous and needed to be treated. You haven't said whether you've been given some insuin and some needles or whether the insulin isused only at the doctor's office or in some other situation with medical help immediately available.
For someone new to it, insulin can be quite a problem. And if that's what's happened here, it's still more confusing.
Yes you can. I can't believe a doctor prescribed insulin for cellulitis. I had it and they gave me some really strong antibotics and it cleared it up in 3 days. If your not diabetic you should not take insulin. My mom is diabetic and she has cellulitis on both legs from her toes to her rear and she takes insulin every day and it has never cleared hers up. They finally put her on an antibotic this week and she has has the cellulitis for 3 years.
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