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Hypoglycemia

My husband, who has diabetes, had a seizure at work, and when he got to the hospital his blood sugar was 82 mg/dl [4.6 mmol/L] I thought this was a good number and that it the blood sugar had to be a lot lower or a lot higher to cause seizure. Am I wrong?

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Last week my wife, had a seizure because her sugars dropped. A week later, she had two more seizures on back to back days approximately six hours after her insulin dose, and we can’t seem to figure out why.

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My last A1c was 5.7% (normal for my lab is 6.5%), and a friend told me that her endocrinologist said that it was okay to have one to two hypoglycemic episodes per week, but I have two to three per week which I always recognize, and now I am feeling that I am not in good control because of the lows. Can you please tell me how many hypoglycemic episodes are acceptable?

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I have had diabetes for almost 12 years now and started having seizures almost five years ago which I thought were due to low blood sugar reactions, but then I realized that they were not. I have seen a neurologist and have been put on Dilantin along with other treatment which did not work seeing as how I had another episode while on these drugs. I do not know where else to turn and hope this will sound familiar and you might have heard of similar situations.

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I suffer from a somewhat unusual and almost completely misunderstood malady called “night sweats”. I’m anxious to find more information on this topic.

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My daughter, now 8 with type 1 diabetes since 13 months, has had recent series of lows in the morning at school. We have recently begun to give her omega 3 fatty acids supplements. Is there any potential correlation between low blood sugar and omega 3 fatty acids?

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I have been tested for hypoglycemia. They said that they couldn’t find anything, but I had all the symptoms. What happens if someone with hypoglycemia has too much sugar?

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My 12 year old son has been experiencing mild “episodes” where he seems to maintain gross motor skills, but fine motor skills go away. We have taken him off of refined sugar, and have less “episodes”. How do we go about testing him? We have tested his blood sugar and it generally reads “low”.

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My six month old son was just diagnosed with “low blood sugar”. I am stricken with worry that this is diabetes. Will he or can he grow out of this? Is this very serious? Do I have reason to lose sleep over this? Can this get worse?

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My son is four years old. Since he was two months old, he has had “shaking episodes”. I have always discussed this with his doctors, but the tests always ended up okay. The doctor recommended that I check his blood sugar with a meter during these episodes. His numbers are low. Should I notify the doctor as soon as possible?

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