Improving diet and lifestyle and reducing hypos and hypers

Fairygodmother said:

Are you doing all this with the help of the DSN @ConcernedRelative?
It seems that you’re undertaking a crash course in Type One management and it would be good to have your father’s medical team on board to answer queries and give advice.
For instance, does your father wait until his readings are at a certain level before he eats carbs? (For me, if I’m above 8 when eating carbs I’ve injected for will usually make my readings rise much higher, but we’re all different.)
I can also empathise with your father’s apparent anger about the demands of Type One. Type One is a 24/7 lifelong sentence. There’s no escape.
And yes, low blood sugars do cause confusion: the brain, like the rest of the body, needs glucose plus oxygen to provide the energy required to function. Without enough glucose executive functions decline. Too much glucose clogs up veins, capillaries and arteries.
Blood sugars that are too high or too low can also affect emotions and behaviour.

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CheeseSeaker said:

Made me smile - I remember those days too - gawd I must have been a b*gger to live with (apparently thats true whenever I riminess with the wife on improvements).

Irrational - hell yes, refusing to get a hypo treatment as "I'm ok...OK" and on very extreme lows - no idea where to get food (thankfully now years in the past)

Biggest help for me was BG on my watch (always on face) so my wife could tell me I was dropping - and alarms set high enough to do something about it when I was still 'human'.

I can still experience lows - but nothing like the past - roll on better tech and better control systems

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