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Message: <blockquote data-quote="taurus" data-source="post: 179164" data-attributes="member: 32439">Hi SazI have just found your post and I have registered in order to reply.I am trawling the web trying to find info about aggression and violence with low blood sugar and honestly there doesn't seem to be much aboutSorry to hear about your situation, which I can fully empathise with.Having a partner who is also big/strong and type 1 (and can be quite aggressive under normal circumstances),he wasn't diagnosed until he was 39 yrsI am really quite shocked ...  to find that I have even more to worry about than I thoughtI am fully aware and experienced with the situation where high BS can cause aggression/violence, but I didn't know that lows could cause aggression/violence; over which the person has no control and can't even remember what they've done when their levels return to normal!I have a good knowledge of diabetes as my youngest son is also type1 but this info has really scared me!Last night things were perfectly OK one minute, we were having a meal and watching a film and then my OH just  became enraged for no reason, started throwing things around, banging his fists into the wall, doors etc.At first I thought something had happened that I was unaware of and it was just him having his 'normal' outburst; but then he started rambling random incomprehensible comments about numbers and  things, bringing me items from around the house including a bowl of dog food ..... and I couldn't communicate with him.My son came down from his bedroom to see what was happening and neither of us could understand what was happening to him or get him to sit down or communicate properly.He was staggering about and when he went into the kitchen, took a carving knife out of the drawer and started stabbing at the work top, we phoned for the ambulance and the emergency 999 service also sent 4 police officers because of what my son was describing to them on the phone ...........What a nightmare!Anyway, the police got here fairly quickly, but because it was 'Saturday night' the ambulance took 1/2 an hour!During this time he calmed down and was basically just sitting on the sofa in a sort of daze and wasn't aware on any level of what was happening or wondering why there were 4 police officers in the lounge!My daughter and partner also arrived as I'd phoned them to say that there was something seriously wrong with him, we couldn't control him and we'd phoned the ambulance etc and he was totally detached from everything that was happeningWe honestly thought he was having some sort of breakdown / psychotic episode.Anyway ...... blood test done BS raised .... him totally disconnected ...What then followed was what I have come to accept as 'normal' re the health service, as in the ambulance just 'dropped him off' at A&E, where when he,when asked the reason for him being there .... said that he didn't know/couldn't understand why he was there as he had simply 'had a low BS'Bottom line they said 'it would be at least 6 hours before he could see a doctor!'We went to get him ..... all he could remember was that he'd had a low BS !I just wanted you to know about this, because I know it doesn't physically help, but at least you know that it is happening to other people and perhaps others might post on here with other info/advise?Like yourself, I am certainly concerned about this now and there just doesn't seem to be any real advise / help about this anywhereI hope things get sorted out for you .... like yourself ... I am used to the moods ... not speaking/discussing ... the word sorry never being heard etc, but as have said, I am truly shocked by what has happened and he meanwhile, has just gone into work as though everything was normal!</blockquote>

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