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Bad reaction following administration of Glucagon

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lizzieanne

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My son, who is 27, has had type 1 diabetes since he was 5 years old. There have been occasions in the past when he has had a hypo that has needed to be treated with glucagon. Once he has had the glucagon he has been calm and sleeps the hypo off. Twice in the past 6 months he has had a hypo that has resulted in him having a seizure and subsequently glucagon, the difference these times has been that although his glucose levels have risen, he has not recovered. He has no understanding of what is going on, where he is or who people are, in fact he is fighting to get away. It is as if his brain has been starved of oxygen.
I would be interested to know if anyone else has experienced this and why it should have started now.
His local hospital and diabetes team have not, up until now, been very helpful with this.
 
what he is experiencing is the "post ictal" period after a seizure. It's very very common after any seizure and can take some time to recover from but he will get over it. How long it lasts depends on the person. They can be combative, argumentative, disorientated and confused and not be able to answer the simplest of questions. It will not be anything to do with the glucagon (or at least very unlikely to be!)
 
My son is only 16 nad has a couple of instances like this. The first was about 6 months ago, and woke up with a complete short term memory loss. When he has had deep hypos he also has a seizure. The latest was last weekend when he accidentally injected 3 times his required dose, I woke up to find him still asleep but twitching. My other son had to restrain him as I had to administer glucose gel to his gums but he was trying to fight us off. He came to after a couple of minutes, and thankfully hadn't lost his memory. I can sympathise with you, it's traumatic for any parent to deal with.
 
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