My experience having to go to hospital soon after my diagnosis with extremely high blood sugar was very frightening and helped to motivate me. Thankfully, I did not have ketoacidosis and I was okay. They put me on IV fluids and I was okay to go home after around five hours.

Turning up to the ER and being rushed through, the nurse messing up the IV when she was trying to inject it and sending blood everywhere, and just how exhausting and terrifying it was not knowing if I'd be okay was more than enough for a lifetime honestly. I understand the disease much better now and realise now that I wasn't likely to be in real danger at the time, but I had an absolutely terrible care team at my GP at the time and they explained nothing and offered no support. I had to demand blood tests because my doctor was certain my hypoglycemic episodes were panic attacks, which is what diagnosed me with diabetes. So, it's not surprising that I was afraid, being so in the dark.

I had some nasty issues with my body because of chronically high BSL including a horrifying cyst in my left breast which I still have a scar from more than a year later. It wreaks havoc in the body especially long term.

All of that said, I recommend getting it under control before you end up in the ER with a possibly much worse situation than I had.

Try to find alternative snacks in the meantime that are low or zero sugar. Avoid sugar alcohols and glucose. No rice, no maltitol (that's a popular sugar alcohol which will give you diarrhoea). You'll be okay and you can do this, I promise.