High Blood Sugar Strinks the Brain
By NailTech
@NailTech (6874)
United States
September 22, 2012 1:10pm CST
This is something I heard the other day, I don't have the link though and didn't read the whole article. My parents both have diabetes and sometimes it goes high. I find them saying or doing alot of the most wrong things and choices, & blaming me for things I don't do, etc. Do you think this has anything to do with their illness? I'm at my wit's end sometimes. Just the other day it was supposedly my fault for making the doorknob fall off again due to the way I open the door. When it is not properly installed in the door in the first place and there is a rug there that makes it difficult to open. I argued my case and then I was still "yelled" at cause of something to do with it like if the door wasn't closed that tightly the car would get in to the basement. Duh. I wasn't even in the blame game in the first place I just want the thing fixed. Dad finally fixed it with the new doorknobs he got.
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@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
22 Sep 12
Well i can understand your parent's situation and i hope everything would be fine and well in your family very soon.
let me tell u something that when u have diabetes, then most internal parts of your body starts to function slowly and in the process they harm your general body process and the brain is no exception. Diabetes also affects the nervous system and it is very much dangerous if its effects start acting on the body. Hence i would like to suggest u to take care of your parents and consult a good doctor regarding diabetes and always keep them spirited and cheered in life.
What say?
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@NailTech (6874)
• United States
23 Sep 12
I know there have been incidents where I have seen on TV someone acting totally odd, there was a show for example where I saw a lady crawling on the ground and the police officer thought she was drunk. In turn they found out that she was having some kind of diabetic reaction. I know sometimes the body reacts strange to blood sugar either high or low. I wish I would have saved that article as I can't find it now. They both go to a doctor, and I have yet to tell the doctors they go to about their behaviours as far as the crazy moods and blaming stuff. One reason is that the one doctor acts like he doesn't trust me cause of what my mother tells him, which is normally not the full story of things that go on. He tends to beleive her anyways cause she is the mother, but that isn't always the right thing to do in my case. I need a secret web cam on 24/7 to prove to people what goes on in this house, rather than everyone taking my mother's word for various things beleive me. I just don't have that kind of set up though. My brother doesn't want to know anything about her health as far as that either and her having the possibility of Alzheimers. He wants to just stay 'a kid' and not have any worries about his parents, it seems.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Sep 12
hi nailtech I am a diabetic and 85 and type two diabetic. I seldom get really high but the few times you do not think correctly,and you are hot all over and very dry wanting a gallon of water. Staying too high a lot could make a person have trouble thinking clearly as there is too much sugar in the cells.so yes if your parents are acting oddly have them check their blood sugars and if high work to get them down.either too low or two high does affect your mind at that time and you may not make much sense.I get angry when very low
and act like I am drunk but I am not.hope this helps some.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
23 Sep 12
Hi Hatley. God Bless you, being 85 with diabetes I'm sure there are times when your health does get out of whack and just doesn't seem right. I have taken care of my grandmother with it as well, plus dementia and have gone through so much with her as well. It really makes you doubt yourself as a person after going through all of this with so many different relatives that are supposed to be there for you and support you, etc. and then almost have yourself brain washed that you're not as good as these "relatives" think you are. I have done nothing but help my grandmother and the way she treated me was horendous at times. I'm beginning to really dislike diabetics for this reason, I'm trying not to group them all together in the way they act, though. It's not saying all of them will react this way to me. I just wonder why it's just me all the time and not anyone else that seems to be in the wrong so much. Just today I was reprimanded cause I was supposed to read y mom's mind to feed the cat when she got the food out for her and thought she was gonna go through with feeding her herself, but said in a rude way once again, her favorite way of talking to me or my dad, that aren't you gonna feed her? I said well I thought you were and then she said she couldn't she was still going back into the other room to finish eating, etc. I mean it's crazy with my relatives. They make me feel like I'm 3 inches tall half the time. I could write a 300 page book on many ways they have treated me badly. For non deserving things that is. I'm not even wanting pity for it, I just want to be told why I have this problem with my relatives and why they always choose me to act so strange toward.
