How do you feel if you having really high blood sugar levels?

Unfortunately for me, I feel great when I am having really high blood sugar levels, such as 225, etc. I wish I did feel bad, but I don't. I actually start getting that shaky feeling in my stomach when I start getting a little under 120. And by the time I am at 100, I am shaky. It's crazy....but I guess we are all different.

This is actually pretty typical and one of the things that makes uncontrolled (undiagnosed or just ignored) diabetes so dangerous-- let's face it, if it hurt, we'd work a lot harder at getting things controlled, wouldn't we. But the pysical symptom-changes involved getting up to those 200+ levels are often so gradual, we just get used to the way it feels, and we don't question it. I was diagnosed twice (long story), and the second time, my diagnosis A1c was 14.7, which equates to about a 430 *average* blood sugar... my god! But I was working full time, taking care of a big house and two teenagers and the husband, and I thought I was doing okay. Sure, I was a little dry-mouthed, thirsty and stuff, but... I already knew I had diabetes and that I'd gained a bunch of weight; I figured I was getting less and less controlled, but I was managing, so... when I finally faced the music and got back into treatment (shocked to find just how far out of control I was), it was more out of guilt (I knew better than continue to do that to myself) than because I felt physically bad.

Diabetes is *dangerous*. Type 2 normally comes on gradually, in stages, and it doesn't usually scream for treatment until it's waaaaaay over the top. Meanwhile, we've gotten used to that sleepy, thirsty, duh-brained feeling, the depression and lackluster way of being, and think it's just us being us. Then when we get into treatment, our body goes into a "WTF is this" kind of reaction for a while, responding with shakiness and protesting that "we *liked* being half asleep, why are you waking us up?" So that we're duped into thinking we were better off before, and getting into control feels awful, so why bother. Truth is, the shakiness of better control goes away pretty quickly if we just keep on keeping on, working at normalizing our blood sugar levels. None of us should be accepting 150-200+ daily averages as our "normal"; nothing could be farther from the truth, and this is dangerous.