Hi
@rebecca owen,
I have T2 not T1 but I recently had a period of high and swinging BGs, which affected my moods big time. Once my BGs stabilised at a lower level I felt better. I think we are all different in how sensitive we are to BG changes. I learned that I am very sensitive and have noticed that others are not so sensitive, ie they can tolerate swings and high BGs without it affecting their moods as much.
To give you an example, I found that anything over 9 coincided with irritability/short fuse and anything over 12 meant I was quite irritable and upset a lot of the time. While I had a UTI recently, I would go from 7-12 in a few hours and that coincided with a flare up of my mood symptoms. Some days I was anywhere between 5.5 and 13. Other days as high as 15.
Then after a few days of my newly started insulin therapy working, I had a day where I started on 7.7 and never went higher than that or below 6.1 that day. I know that sort of control is hard for most people to achieve and it's the exception more than the rule for me, but it did show me that if I could get a day like that, my moods and irritability were no problem to me that day, and I felt quite energized and optimistic, even.
The last few weeks have been rough, but they have taught me that keeping my BGs from swinging across a wide range of numbers is linked to feeling better physically and mentally.
Fine tuning the management of T1 is something the T1s on the forum can talk about with you. 6 months is not long in terms of adapting to a life-affecting diagnosis like T1.
Stress and grief are normal reactions to an abnormal situation. It's not pleasant at all, but it usually gets better over time. I speak from experience, having been diagnosed with several life-affecting conditions.
With mood issues, my approach is always to rule out or treat any medical causes (diabetic and non-diabetic), then work on processing the feelings and moving forward.
I hope that helps a little.