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Message: <blockquote data-quote="janabelle" data-source="post: 112511" data-attributes="member: 7788">Hi,I've been type-1 since '89, and experienced lot of hypos and 1 coma. I, like previous poster, have only heard of brain damage being caused by very severe hypos. I've always been lead to believe that if a type-1 is inconscious for over 1 hour, then brain damage is highly likely. Doctors can make diagnoses without much evidence, as happened to me recently. I was told I had neuropathy in my feet earlier this year; turned out I was experiencing a side-effect of the contrecptive pill. My sister had same prob with her feet when she went on the same pill, and she's not diabetic.  The problem resolved when I discontinued the pill.I was also mis-diagnosed with Fibromyalgia 3 years ago, which has similar symptoms to ME; including memory problems, cognitive dysfunction, exhaustion, pain, sleep problems,etc.I discovered the problems I was having were again due to a drug side-effect, this time it was my insulin. I was taking Lantus, and the problems had developed since taking it, including erratic BG control, resulting in many hypos and severe illness.  Again , the problems were resolved by changing insulin; I changed to animal insulin.I just wondered, as you are so young, whether it is worth consideration that you may be experiencing a problem with whatever insulin or  medication you are on. I don't know what insulin you are on, but many patients report very serious problems and reactions to synthetic insulins, and the new analogue long-acting ones.This link may interest you. <a href="http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Your-stories/Diabetes-stories/My-struggle-with-insulin/" target="_blank">http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-dia ... h-insulin/</a>Best of luckJus</blockquote>

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