Introductory Post
Thanks for the welcome! My name is Dave; Type 1 Diabetic since 2001/age 17. Today, 27, I hail out of Regina SK, working as Marketing Analyst for a local major phone company, 5 days a week, living out of a 2 bedroom condo with my first time 8-month pregnant common-law, & our dog.
My illness roots from the genetics of a mother who showed it in her mid 40's/the mid-1990's, and has ever since proven a good informant/guide. I have spent an entire decade facing my own diabetes with the ugly habit of finding high blood sugars an alien & unusual discomfort with each appearance, and personally preferred a control method where I could eat whatever food I wanted regardless of carb content (as long as I countered it with a supposedly appropriate sized insulin shot). Seeing thus no harm in over-shooting high-hitting hypoglycemic numbers, (despite the initial shakiness and lightheadedness they'd draw) I used lows as a familiar medical cushion for years on end. As my brother once mused "I sometimes think you go low on purpose just so you have an excuse to treat them with food"
Though my blood sugar has averaged medically below 8.0 overall, it's also yielded years of alternative resulting neurological consequences. By 2003's end I had developed strange growing blind spots in my peripheral vision, dark against brightness and yielding of flashing reactive waves of light. And ever since about 2005, people have noticed random seizure reactions whilst I am sleeping on occasion, themselves traced to a reaction of hypoglycemia during resting hours. Here's one example, recorded by my gf's cell phone video (sorry for the boxers wardrobe):
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I wouldn't fear a life of diabetes control with lows then if it weren't for fear of eventual partial blindness, and waking up after each night spent seizuring and overdosing facing headaches, memory loss, increasingly lowered intelligence, dental/mouth injuries, momentarily compromised sanity, & thrown blood sugar control the following few days.
I'm drawn to this forum in search of exchanged discussion of these symptoms/experiences, in hope of learning more about both their overcome and about the proper handling of the disease in long term general.