First of all, I apologize for not introducing myself first, but I just got on this forum for help from others, and I don't know what to do. I'm confused and scared and need any advice I can get.

I was diagnosed with diabetes 2 years ago, and was immediately put on 1000 mg of metformin twice a day. My blood sugars have always been handled with my diet and the metformin until the last year. My blood sugars have crept up over the last year and now are running around 100 in the morning fasting and average 150-180 all the other times. Let me also say that my husband is in the military, and I have had to change from an endocrinologist to a regular doc because of my insurance. The doctor has also put me on actos and glimipuride in addition to the metformin.

About 2 weeks ago my doctor gave me prednisone for severe overall body pain. (I was told that I have fibromyalgia but there is nothing they can do for it). I have been sick all week with headache, frequent urination, horribly thirsty, feeling nauseated and like I had the flu. But, my glucometer had broken and I didn't check my blood sugar for about 3 days. When I finally got my new one, my blood sugar was 348. My husband took me to the ER. I fainted about an hour into waiting in the ER and they finally took me to a room and checked my blood sugar and it was 388. They finally put me in a room, ran an IV bag of saline through me and gave me some zophran. (?sp).
They released me when my blood sugar was 274. The doctor told me to keep taking the prednisone and change nothing.

Today my blood sugar was 402 and I finally called the doctor. He called in a new prescription of Januvia and I just took my first pill about an hour ago. My blood sugar is now down to 389, but I still feel horrible and just don't know what to do.

Obviously, I need to get to a specialist. But, how high should your blood sugar go before you go to the ER? I know low blood sugar is more dangerous than high, but I feel absolutely terrible and even though it's gone down a few points in an hour, it's still higher than it's ever been. Before last week, my blood sugar had never been over 200.

Please offer any advice you can give on what I stated above. I am just helpless right now and feel devastated.