In a message dated 10/22/2002 2:02:07 AM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Normally you will not go into a diabetic coma until you reach the > high 100's like 400 - 500 an up. Our hospital's policy is to call any blood glucose level of either 425 or 450 and up (I can't remember which figure iat was) as a critically high number that requires alerting the patient's nurse and doctor immediately so that corrective measures can be taken. Robin, your grandma was in a real "catch-22" situation! That 300 reading may have been what she was accustomed to, and she might have become symptomatic if it dropped significantly lower than that; but you can bet your britches that the high level was causing sugar deposits to build up in her retinas, her kidneys and her blood vessels. It might have been that the doctor was trying to get it down too fast. With the number of Type II diabetics in this country increasing exponentially, the docs have plenty of material to work with; and they've found out that even maintenance levels of 150 are high enough to cause damage. Dave, your new figures are right on, and so is all the rest of the material you've put in. Great teaching -- we should have you at our hospital! :-} Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr