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frequentmouse
2007-02-18 11:08 pm UTC (link)

Sitting on my hands re: diabetic control being simply a matter of following the rules perfectly (HA! I wish!) and also ERs in general, due to some Very Bad Experiences about post traumatic pain complaints being ascribed to drug seeking when in fact one was a broken pelvis (the ER doc made my friend stand up, without taking Xrays, which broke his pelvis more thoroughly, demanding surgery and put him in Harborview for three weeks at taxpayer expense) and multiple vertebral fractures (my dear Uncle went to the ER because his regular doc was spending Christmas in Hawaii; they gave him 800mg Ibuprophen and treatment was delayed for a week).

I rather think anyone over the age of twenty has comparable "The ER decided someone was faking and they ended up worse" but, yeah, spooge, whatever.

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	dragonfangirl 2007-02-18 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	Unfortunately, it's kind of a part of the "If you can _______________, you aren't really sick" thing. You know, just because they can do it doesn't mean there's nothing wrong. They might can do it only at the expense of exacerbating it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	abbymouse 2007-02-19 01:09 am UTC (link)
	diabetic control being simply a matter of following the rules perfectly OH BITCH PLEASE. (Disclaimer: post and icon not aimed at you.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2007-02-19 01:13 am UTC (link)
	No offense taken. Dad went into the ER with his BG at 35; the second time they took it, it was at 600. Fun for the whole family! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	abbymouse 2007-02-19 01:17 am UTC (link)
	Now, admittedly I don't know American measurements as well as I know Australian ones, but that sounds nasty! I know the pain of "why the hell are my blood sugars doing this?!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2007-02-19 01:39 am UTC (link)
	Those are mg/dl. The first is "get the hell to the hospital" low, the second well into coma range. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	abbymouse 2007-02-19 01:46 am UTC (link)
	Ick. We measure in ml/l, IIRC, so it sounds like that'd be the equivalent of going in with a bgl of 1.1 or lower, and having it be in the thirties or forties afterwards. o.O (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2007-02-19 05:49 pm UTC (link)

I rather think anyone over the age of twenty has comparable "The ER decided someone was faking and they ended up worse" but, yeah, spooge, whatever.

The 'it doesn't matter that you just took a nebuliser twenty minutes ago and are losing consciousness from lack of oxygen, we'll just give you another and send you home' attitude of the doctors in my hospital eventually resulted in me spending weeks comatose in an oxygen tent and the lovely news my parents received explaining 'she'll most likely be a vegetable if she ever wakes up' (and actually using the tactful word 'vegetable' in reference to a two year old child).

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