Is it painful to die from high blood sugar if you have type 2 diabetes?

Question

How does high blood sugar actually kill you?

Answer 1

As I remember, eye sight goes, than your appendages begin dieing (starting furthest from the heart, fingers, toes, feet hands) eventually your kidneys, & liver will begin to malfunction s******g your blood all up, things like ability to hold and transport oxygen and nutrients, causeing a good number of other conditions... basically your body just goes on a self destructive rampage, untill on day after much pain for you and those around you, you wake up dead. (might be a bit off but I know untreated Diabetes was the begining of all the trouble)

Answer 2

Hyperglycemia most of the time does not directly kill you entirely on its own, but hyperglycemia will eventually put you into a coma, and you'll likely die after that.

How diabetics wind up dying from poor control is that a constant level of high blood sugar is damaging to internal organs. So you might not die from hypergycemia but itself, but a complication of it. Maybe a heart attack, or renal failure, or cancer. Your mileage may vary on how much that would hurt.

Answer 3

High blood sugar doesn't really kill you per se but the complications resulting from uncontrolled high sugar levels may. Diabetics with uncontrolled sugar levels will suffer heart, kidney, sight failures, to name a few. Do not take diabetes lightly. Exercise will help & eat less carborhydrates. Eat more vegetables. Monitor your blood sugar, get a monitoring set if you can. Get regular HbA1c test done, 3 months once & eye check up every year. This average blood sugar reading will help you control your sugar levels. You can read up more through internet sites on diabetes. Take care.

Answer 4

Hyperglycemia will only be the direct cause of death if it climbs so high that you fall into a coma and continue to not get treatment.  Hyperglycemia does kill over time however, by narrowing and destroying your cardiovascular system and causing heart attacks, strokes, amputation, and kidney failure.  So those are usually the actual causes of death, even though hyperglycemia caused them to happen.

Answer 5

The headache that some diabetics get with high blood sugar can be VERY painful.  Not that it will kill you.  Neuropathy (a secondary condition to long standing high blood sugar) can be extremely painful.  Like the others said, high blood sugar won't kill you directly, but life is gonna ge unpleasant if you have untreated diabetes!

Answer 6

Depends what the side effects of high blood sugar are, I should imagine a stroke is no fun nor is having parts of your body amputated.  

Answer 7

!!YES!!

Continual high blood sugar will cause Diabetic Ketoacidosis.  This happens a LOT in Type 1 diabetics, and is in fact one of the top 2 or 3  reasons why children are diagnosed as diabetic.

It is more rare in Type 2 Diabetics, but I managed to get it anyway, about 4 years ago.  I would have felt better if I had been hit by a train!

Blood Sugar (glucose) is the main fuel that the body needs to run.  Insulin helps the body move sugar from the blood into the cells.

if you have NO insulin, the sugar cannot move out of the blood, so it builds up in the blood -- High Blood Sugar --> Diabetes.

But more importantly, if the cells get no suagr thay think they are starving, so the start to "eat" themselves!  This is why the severely diabetic often loses weight -- the body is "eating itself".

This is not supposed to happen!  When it does, a lot of poisons build up in the blood.  These poisons consist of acids and ketones -- Thus the term Diabetic KetoAcidosis (DKA), which means "the blood is acidic and has lots of ketones, caused by diabetes" [There is another disease called rhabdomyolosis, that does the same thing]  A good doctor can actually SMELL ketoacidosis -- the ketones make your breath smell really sweet (and your urine).

But with all these poisons and toxins in your system, you feel like h**l! Everything hurts, you can't think straight, it's even difficult to walk.

Then, the poisons start to act on your other organs -- kidneys and liver, especially.  Pretty soon, they start to shut down, and that has it's own special pains.

If ketoacidosis is not treated on an emergency basis, it is fatal.  The doctor told me I was within 24 hours of being dead.

As it is, I have permanent kiidney damage, and am getting ready to have the surgery necessary to install the fictures for dialysis.

So don't let anybody tell you high blood suagr isn't dangerous, or it doesn't hurt.  Cause I KNOW different.

Cheers!