Diabetes and seizures
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Early this morning my grandson started making a strange whooping sound in his bed. When I went in to see what was wrong his eyes were wide open and dialated, but didn't seem to be blinking or seeing. He was trembling in jerky movements in his torso and legs and he was doing quick intakes of air, like a baby does after he cries himself to sleep. This lasted for less than 4 minutes, then he came back around and started talking to me and acting sleepy again.
I was reading about different comments and questions of diabetes. My diabetes has been in and out of control for the past 3 years. I was diagnosed with being epileptic at the age of 14. I am now 43. I have been seizure free for 3 years. August of 2006 I have had 16 seizures and 12 of the 16 were grand mal seizures. From what I have read from others my out of control blood sugars could be the cause of these seizures.
you mentioned how long.I have had diabetes for 27 years. and this was a first , and hope last time.thank you so much for your feedback. it is scary and you feel out of control or having no control. i saw a doctor but not my regular. she has me taking my insulin so weird that i dont know when to eat or anything ,or what to eat.she is afraid of it being so low that now it is extremely high. thank you for your support. it is nice to know i have someone to reach out too.
My son is 18 years old and was diagnosed with Diabetes Type A 10 years ago.
During the past 10 years we have been through some highs and lows (literally).
Tonight at about 2 a.m. my son experienced a seizure. He was crying out, had muscle convoltions,was foaming at the mouth and totally unresponsive.
As I was about to administer glucogen, he came to, but was vague and had no recollection of the incident.
At that point I helped him check his blood sugar level, and to my surprize it was 4,1.
I have been experiencing frequent sugar lows, resulting in blurred vision and dizzyness. Last week, I awoke in the hospital after having diabetic seizures. I remember feeling weak and taking some glucose tablets. Apparently these weren't enough to ward off the seizure. I am worried about future seizures. Specifically, I am wondering if the seizures might aggravate my heart condition. I have a fully blocked coronary artery. I am also worried about possible brain damage.
I have learned how notice when he is having low blood sugar and usually can notice the signs and help him out before anything major happens. I am very concerned about him though. He is 32 and was diagnosed with diabetes at age 5. I am sure he knows more about this than me, but I still worry. He smokes and drinks alchol weekly with friends.
My concerrn is parkinsons or epilepsy but these seizures have increased over time and when they started they were just shaking hands that when away after eating. He's been tested for diabetes, anxiety, parkinsons etc; and all of them have come up as negative. I'm really concerned about him and if anybody has experienced this and knows what it is or has any information about it please, please let me know.
Stress can be one cause (??) Has he been unduly stressed? Dehydration can be another....kidney failure and Diabetes can all cause seizures. But then again, the bloodwork would have shown if those things were happening to him.
Another cause can be Cushing's Disease. But usually the dog displays other symptoms such as hair loss, great thirst, great hunger, and a pot-belly. Also I am sure the vet would have tested had he suspected Cushing's might be the cause.
Note there is a difference between the cause of a seizure and a trigger. Seizures can be caused by head injury (at any time in your life), diabetes side effects, a high fever as a child or a virus/bacterium like meningitis.
Triggers are things like alcohol drinks, flashing lights (like driving a car through shade/shadow or watching window blinds flickering the light from a breeze, or for some people anything raising the adrenaline level. In women, PMS is usually a trigger.
is fanatical about diet and exercise, yet it gets worse and worse and we are desperately worried. She can no longer drive due to the sporadic nature of the disease. Is there anything that can be done to help regulate this, before she does serious damage to other organs or through falling? Also, we are frightened by the amount of time that lapses before medical help arrives - I'm sure any amount of time with blood levels severely out of whack is not good . . .
I'm a 22 yr. old male. When I was a kid I was diagnosed with siezures {they also said I had a left, frontal, cavernous angioma. I had two doctors. The brain surgeon said that caused the seizures, but the pediatric neurologist said the cavernous angima had nothing to do with the siezures}. I had no convulsions, but my eyes rolled back in my head for a couple seconds. Well, I was put on Zarontin and after a few years they "weened" me off it, and it seems that my seizures were gone.
One week later, he started eating, then just sat there motionless and glassy eyed, I picked him up, he peed and pooped and then started panting and his heart or breathing was very rapid and irregular. Took him to vet, he was totally back to normal in less than 20 minutes. Is he having seizures or heart arrythmia? Is it bad reaction to lantis?
i have been having seizures since 2008 , i was pregnant and began sick with fever and found out i had a spleen tumor which ended in a partial spleenectomy, after that i began having seizures. Every seizure is worst for me itake dilantin for the seizures, I has a seizure about 3months ago and i havent been the same since i have extreme back left shoulder pain tender almost, my left side of my stomach aches a dull pain like when i had the tumor on my spleen.
There is no direct connection between diabetes and a very low blood count unless you have autoimmune diseases that cause both(quite uncommon). People with diabetes can tend to have lower counts than those without, but not terribly lower. Many things can affect how your Mom's body handles her diabetes medication, and possibly many of them are not quite normal right now, including her kidney functions and liver functions, as well as medication interactions.
He sleeps most of the time, has difficulty walking, weakness in his legs, trembling and very hungry and thirsty. He is a very anxious dog normally and scared of many things, especially the vet. He did like to take walks, but was scared when he saw other dogs. He doesn't want to go on walks anymore. We want to do the best thing for him but this does not seem like a good quality of life. I am really stressing over this! Any words of advice?
My son is eleven and was diagnosed at one year of age. SEveral times over the last five years he has experienced 'seizure like' symptoms but different than the ones discribed as a 'being low' seizure. He doesn't have control over his arms and legs and cannot speak and it lasts for about five or so minutes. The doctors just say that they don't know. His A1C is 6.5 and he's on an insulin pump and his health is very good.
It is just a diagnostic aid and is often normal in people having seizures. It can also be abnormal in those not having seizures.
Hypertension, diabetes, strokes or transient ischemic attacks too should be looked into. A CT scan or MRI of the brain should be done to rule this out.
The third possibility is cervical nerve compression very high up. Again an MRI will be diagnostic.It could also be due to hypoglycemia.
It is difficult to comment beyond this at this stage.
A very severe low like the one your son had CAN indeed cause seizures. And those seizures stop as soon as the blood sugar levels are normalized. Usually, some twitching of muscles, sometimes shaking hands, sometimes twitch to face, happens first, so watch for those symptoms. I would suggest that you look very carefully at his diet, avoiding all high-glycemic index foods and caffeine.
ok so my husband became a diabetic at the age of 10 and now he is now 26 and get seizures alot and at first I would rush himto the hospital but he told me to just let him come out of them because it is the same thing everytime we go to the ER they say he is healthy and can't understand why this is happening.
My family history is complicated my brother has neurofromatosis and a shunt in his head and my mother has diabetes, I am healthy as can be.. I know her mother has chromes disease but besides that im not sure about her history much.. She has been to see a few drs but they can't seem to figure out whats wrong with her.
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