scary experience

My afternoons have been going a bit strange for a while now, and I was wondering whether anyone else had experienced anything like this. Am not sure if it's diabetes related or not....

I've been getting really spaced out and vacant in the afternoon for quite a while. I'd previously put it down to too many carbs at lunch, but I doubt that's the case now as I've cut right back on carbs. I decided on Thur when this happened to test to see if it was high bg, got my kit out, then zoned out completely. The fog lifted after I don't know how long, and I found I was sitting there repeatedly trying to shove a testing strip into the end of the finger progger and wondering why it wouldnt work! :shock:

BG was 5.3, and this was around 3hrs after eating, then tested again every half hour for a bit as I was quite scared to he honest, and it went down to 4.9 after half an hour, then back up to 5.4 half an hour after that.

Similar happened the following day, only instead of not being able to work a testing kit, I found I didn't know how to cut and paste (which I had been doing repeatedly for about the previous half hour on autopilot) and was repeatedly flicking between spreadsheets in a confused manner.

Please don't suggest alzheimers, I'm only 34 :shock: I have to go to the GP next week, but in the meantime was wondering if anyone else had experienced this?

BTW I am type 2, on Metaformin (2x 500mg with breakfast and same with evening meal, and also 4mg glimepiride before breakfast)

Vicky

Thank you for your responses.

In reply:

I can't remember whether it was the leaflet in the pack or the diabetic consultant who told me to take the Glimepiride before the first meal of the day. I've lost the leaflet in the current pack, so when I get a prescription refill I will check. I was started on a low dose, then they gradually increased it over time till my numbers started to get to a more acceptable level. The timing seems to work for me, and am not 'floating about the ceiling' :lol: but it sounds like fun!

I'd never though about blood pressure. Mine normally reads borderline high, usually put down to 'white coat syndrome'. I've ordered a monitoring thingy online, so will look into it.

And to reassure you, I am not driving at the moment. Had to stop in 2010 when my foot problems started. It was because of that that I discovered the diabetes, even though that only turned out to be part of the problem. I'm still trying to get to the bottom what's causing the rest of the pain in my feet, and trying to find out how to fix it, meanwhile I can't hold the pedals down as it hurts so am not driving.

Thank you for your responses.

I went for an HBA1c on Thurday at the GP surgery, and asked them to book an appointment for me to speak to the doc, as the nurse was busy doing flu jabs. Unfortunatley they have one of those stupid 'book on the day' systems which is useless if, like me, you work full time on weekdays and need to book in advance to arrange cover. They have a limited number of book in advance appointments, but the earliest one I could get was 5/11, when I'm away for a few days, so am booked in for the next available which was 13 Nov!!! I think I'll give them a ring on Monday and try to hassle for an earlier one as I could barely concentrate at all this afternoon. Was doing a job involving a lot of scrolling up and down long reports on the computer screen, and I seemed to space out more doing that than when doing my normal job of writing the reports.

I been using the blood pressure monitor, and my BP is largely normal.

I've read the bit on petit mal, and it does sound worryingly similar.......

Just a quick update for those people who were kind enough to reply to me and who were concerned. I went to the GP surgery last Thursday, and saw a new doc who I think was covering for holidays. Anyway, she referred me straight to the emergency assessment unit at the hospital, who did all sorts of blood tests and basic neurological tests, and decided there was probably nothing nasty wrong, but they wanted a brain scan just to be on the safe side. I had the scan today, and it was normal. The consultant has put the 'funny spells' down to something called 'transient global amnesia', which is unlikely to reoccur, but they will do a brain wave activity test in a couple of weeks just to be sure. All of the blood work was normal, so that leaves me relieved, but back to square one with regard to the tiredness. Back to the GP on 13/11/12.