So, having ketoacidosis feels like having your blood turn to acid. Death from ketoacidosis is an excruciating death. Fermenting from the inside out as your heart pumps your increasingly acidic blood through your entire body. You're technically starving, so you're hungry, but at the same time your body is trying to expel glucose at all costs, so everything you look at makes you sick.

Extended periods of high blood glucose and lack of insulin especially is up there as one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever experienced personally. Just unimaginable cruelty.

That could go very wrongly if they're already at the end of the safety period when they're grabbed by the cops.

But before long there will be diabetics that never really learned to do that because they never had to. Even people that have done that for decades still mess up dosing sometimes.

How likely is it that someone might die? I don’t know. But saying they will be fine might not be fair.

I can fast for days, my blood sugar does not go down.

On my last 4 day fast, my blood sugar stayed within about 20Mg/Dl.

And no, I cannot manage without my medical devices. Or are you telling me that I should fast for the entirety of police custody?

This is similar to saying "X person can survive without y medicine which has only been around for 10 years". Or "people survived fine without seatbelts for so many years".

That's a classic survivorship bias, because a ton of diabetics didn't survive, who'd possibly have a much higher chance of surviving today with current tech. Heck, I personally know the brother of a late diabetic who would've been alive today if he had a phone connected to a CGM because of it's low glucose alarm function.

I understand HN is a place for discussion, but in potentially deadly situations like this, it's worth avoiding to make statements against medical care.