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Mood swing and extreme emotions

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Frenchy7181

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Hi
Have anyone else experienced extreme emotions?
Over the past few weeks, pre treatment and early on I have felt extremely agitated, focused obsessively on unimportant things. Unable to control myself almost turning it into a rage?
It only on reflection that I can look back at it shamefully but I guess due to blood glucose spikes.
 
Hi Frenchy, I think you have hit the nail on the head. High or fluctuating blood glucose levels can affect moods, often quite significantly :( Hopefully, as things settle down you will start to feel much better. I've been reading about the improvements you have already been making and I'm sure you will start feeling much happier and healthier soon 🙂
 
Thanks @Northerner this got me in trouble at work. Was totally unaware that sugar spikes would lead to this. Thankfully it all makes sense now hope HR will see it that way too. I have started meditation and apnea (underwater swimming controlling your breathing) hopefully this will have positive result. Finger test has not gone to 11mmol once in the past 10 days which is good but mostly 7.8/8.5.
 
If you need any assistance how best to approach HR to get them on your side - Diabetes UK have a very useful Helpline - https://www.diabetes.org.uk/

Such a lot of people - and especially employers!!! - are blissfully unaware of what high or low BG does to our brains. (Lucky sods)

Make the most of this (less than ideal) opportunity to educate em!
 
Thank you @trophywench. I was actually surprised that this topic was not highlighted on the forum page. I have found some good info within several diabetes organisations. I was totally unaware that BG had those effects. Looking back it all makes perfect sense I hope HR will see it in the same way.
 
Well TBH Frenchy - we don't have THAT many people who actually say they have the same problem. I mean OK before I was diagnosed I had very high BG but because it's T1 that was just making me be ragingly thirsty constantly if I wasn't nauseous and desperately wanting to fall asleep. Or all three. Plus I'd just turned 22 and though I was fairly confident at work virtually everyone older than me and/or more senior were still referred to formally and absolutely NOT by their Christian names by such underlings as myself. FAR less like hard work all in all, rarely had a day when we hadn't got time to sit around and chat with colleagues and happy to go and take a bit of paper for a walk!

Stress was utterly unknown and there were no problems - only EVER, opportunities!

When I was in my late 50s - it all caught up with me - and my then employers made my life HELL when everything else in my life was also conspiring against me and I fell apart mentally. I parted company from them - and they were still messing with my head the day we did - told my departmental boss to not tell me until close of play that day. She then lumbered my section head with that burden. But the latter was lovely, waited till 'madam' had gone to lunch and the two of us were on our own and asked me to go 'right now before she comes back' - explaining exactly why. (Oh to have been a fly on the office wall when she did!)

Hence why I want you to take advice before talking to HR - mine were completely two faced rats.
 
@trophywench too late for that I m afraid I m awaiting result from enquiry. It s only on reflection and reading on the website that I recognise the symptoms and why I was so emotionally up and down.
 
Err, what have they enquired, of whom?
 
I has an outburst all got on top of me. being done for bullying and threatening behaviour over a telephone conversation that happenned 2 days prior, then I m told we are overstaffed and called in for disciplinary and suspended. Grr
 
Well as long as they ask someone who is an expert in the possible effects of too high BG AND of being diagnosed with ANY chronic condition, you'll be OK. Presumably you and they also have evidence of 'previous good behaviour' and you have evidence your BG is now under better control.

These things have to be in a staged format anyway, first a warning that you need to improve and in what way, Then a review before it goes any further. At some stages of the process you are entitled to a companion of your choosing to help you - I'm not sure at exactly what stages it happens which is why I want you to ask the Helpline abut what happens next and where you are with the process.
 
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