I have been a type 1 for 32 years, so pretty much used for my symptoms of a hypo, sweating, blurred vision, pins and needles in my tongue, all pretty normal. but occasionally, I get none of those. But I can be doing whatever and my mind will go very very muddled. For example last night. I was working on the computer, putting infomation in specific columns, when all of a sudden I couldnt do it. i was looking at the info, thinking thats got to go in that column, but then just looking at the screen and not being able to work out what I needed to do. Its like my mind goes extemely scrambled, I cant make sense of what people are saying to me, i can hear them, but just cant link up to what they are saying. It is the most scariest symptom, and its beginning to frighten me. Does anyone else get these sort of symptoms?
Dear Dianehogben, It is important to stop this happening. Although frightening - i was so fearful when these type started that wrote a poem about how i felt - how i slipped into strange and sometimes exciting dream worlds that i could not get out of, and other stuff, to try to help me understand. It was way back nearly 30 years ago - these are common symptoms, the reason for them, as far as i understand, is that the effects of insulin lowering the glucose in your brain are kicking in before your usual warning symptoms can get going and protect your brain by raising your blood glucose. The brain starts to get muddled, and, eventually, things can get to seem very strange indeed before getting very dangerous.
It will have happened because you may be running a bit lower than usual, and/or may have had a few more of your normal type symptoms. Maybe also these normal type symptoms are a bit more subtle now, as the years go on....
It is interesting that you are only only just be getting these symptoms - mine started within a short while from diagnosis, and within 4 years had got a lot worse, over 30 years ago. At the time I told my medical professional i was desperate, I was told me this was unfortunate, but was par for the course, as i was so well controlled. I had no idea what to do, even when things got far worse, and it took ages to learn how to deal with hypos. It has never been easy, and there is always a background fear. i met up, way back then, with a group of Type ones, and found that these type of effects, and far worse, and even more dramatic, were always a main talking point, it was good to share and compare.
So much more is known now, and so much more blood testing can be done, and there is so much more advice as to not to tolerate this at all, and to act to stop hypos now. If this has only just started for you it may be reversed a bit easier, with a lot of hard work. You would need to talk to your medical team and check out how to safely run glucose levels a bit higher so you never have a hypo for a while. If this has only just happened, i imagine you may have more level insulin use than many Type ones, so doing this may hopefully not be too difficult. Best Wishes