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This is why the NHS should provide Type 2's

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... with meters and strips!

In my old job I used to get be angry, agitated and just savage in the afternoon which I naturally blamed on a stressful day.

Since being diagnosed with Type 2 I looked back and thought these 'mental moments' were due to low BS. However, today I got the same feeling .... It was the same late PM, a few hours after lunch and I was finding it hard to concentrate and getting real agitated, angry, short and snappy (I wanted to kill everyone in Morrisons)!!!

I was just about to eat something with a load of carbs but I thought this would be an ideal time to use my new privately purchased monitor and check my BS. To my absolute surprise it was high (for me) at 9.8! I was absolutely convinced my 'mood' would have been due to low BS!!!!

I was just about to stuff my face with of dried fruit which would have sent my BS through the roof if it hadn't had been for a monitor I bought myself. Eating a load of sugar at this time would have been fine with the NHS becasuse it was healthy fruit! Absolute madness!!

Anyone else have poor concentration and high temper with high BS?

It also makes me wonder how long I have had diabetes? Been this way in the afternoons for ages!
 
Yes.

Like you since getting my BG's down I am far more laid back (yes really I am honest). I now make an effort not to get in stressful situations and my wife says I've stopped raging at inanimate objects. The first time my BG's fell into the 4's was an eye opener as I woke up and became completely alert, just like a sunrise in my head. I can now sense if my sugars are high. I get a tense feeling mostly in my legs and feel for want of a better word blobby and generally mentally and emotionally low.
 
I've been convinced for a while that there's a connection with mood. For me it can mean I'm high or low however - herself says I've been better since I got my numbers under better control.
 
I know that even low-level stress seems to put my levels up.
 
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