Diabetic Short Temper
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One possible cause to consider was in a paper my doctor gave me yesterday on the hazards of aspartame/Nutrasweet.
Your doctor has bought into some unfounded mythology and doesn’t know his biochemistry very well. Quoting from this paper: Diabetic patients using aspartame had memory loss, confusion and severe vision loss. Seizures were noted and it said the phenylalanine in aspartame breaks down the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin
Yah.. phenylalanine.. nasty stuff.. oughtta be banned. The stuff I read on aspartame in this paper convinced me to throw away anything I have in the house containing Nutrasweet/aspartame, and I will specifically shop for product in the future that don’t contain it.
Thereby satisfying every yokel who has bought into this hooey. Diet soft drinks containing aspartame start to break down at 86 degrees F and the methanol in aspartame starts converting to formaldehyde (like they embalm people with when they die) and formic acid (which is what the toxin is in the sting of a fire ant.
Oh yes, methanol and formaldehyde are nasty stuff too. Don’t you agree that apples should be removed from grocery stores? Scary stuff!
So are ghost stories, and they aren’t true either. -MT
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MJM Did I leave something out so as to come across as ambiguous? I do apologize for restraining myself unnecessarily. shheeeeessshhhhhh just try and get me to rant and rave again Doug – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – scary stuff my ass it’s all bullshit I have never met anyone who had an adverse reaction to aspartame beyond "it gives me a headache" I am sick and tired of hearing how bad this food is for all of us if it was half as bad as they say we would all be dead period no options just fucking dead now shut the fuck up and go away aspartame haters – find someone who cares I like it in my ice cream in my whipped cream in my jello in my sweet & sour sauce in my cinnamon rolls etc. etc. etc. this is stuff I really wouldn’t be able to enjoy w/o aspartame so if I eat too much and it kills me I DIE HAPPY – FUCK YOU that’s all I’m gonna say about that Doug Ah come on now Doug, don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel <g Marilyn
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -scary stuff my ass it’s all bullshit I have never met anyone who had an adverse reaction to aspartame beyond "it gives me a headache" I am sick and tired of hearing how bad this food is for all of us if it was half as bad as they say we would all be dead period no options just fucking dead now shut the fuck up and go away aspartame haters – find someone who cares I like it in my ice cream in my whipped cream in my jello in my sweet & sour sauce in my cinnamon rolls etc. etc. etc. this is stuff I really wouldn’t be able to enjoy w/o aspartame so if I eat too much and it kills me I DIE HAPPY – FUCK YOU that’s all I’m gonna say about that Doug
Ah come on now Doug, don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel <g Marilyn
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Scary stuff indeed!!! But what of us that don’t use the cursed stuff or use so little for it not to amount to much??? Grrrrr
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Thank you Doug for saving me the breath. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – scary stuff my ass it’s all bullshit I have never met anyone who had an adverse reaction to aspartame beyond "it gives me a headache" I am sick and tired of hearing how bad this food is for all of us if it was half as bad as they say we would all be dead period no options just fucking dead now shut the fuck up and go away aspartame haters – find someone who cares I like it in my ice cream in my whipped cream in my jello in my sweet & sour sauce in my cinnamon rolls etc. etc. etc. this is stuff I really wouldn’t be able to enjoy w/o aspartame so if I eat too much and it kills me I DIE HAPPY – FUCK YOU that’s all I’m gonna say about that Doug Ah come on now Doug, don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel <g Marilyn
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SHORT TEMPER!!!! WHADDYA MEAN SHORT TEMPER!!!! YOU TALKING ABOUT ME??? I’LL SHOW YOU! Ray
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One possible cause to consider was in a paper my doctor gave me yesterday on the hazards of aspartame/Nutrasweet. Quoting from this paper: Diabetic patients using aspartame had memory loss, confusion and severe vision loss. Seizures were noted and it said the phenylalanine in aspartame breaks down the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin, which causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage and violence.
scary stuff my ass it’s all bullshit I have never met anyone who had an adverse reaction to aspartame beyond "it gives me a headache" I am sick and tired of hearing how bad this food is for all of us if it was half as bad as they say we would all be dead period no options just fucking dead now shut the fuck up and go away aspartame haters – find someone who cares I like it in my ice cream in my whipped cream in my jello in my sweet & sour sauce in my cinnamon rolls etc. etc. etc. this is stuff I really wouldn’t be able to enjoy w/o aspartame so if I eat too much and it kills me I DIE HAPPY – FUCK YOU that’s all I’m gonna say about that Doug I feel better now
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Being diabetic causing short tempers due to high and low blood sugars??? I am experiencing alot of this and would like to hear from others who experience same. Thanks
One possible cause to consider was in a paper my doctor gave me yesterday on the hazards of aspartame/Nutrasweet. Quoting from this paper: Diabetic patients using aspartame had memory loss, confusion and severe vision loss. Seizures were noted and it said the phenylalanine in aspartame breaks down the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin, which causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage and violence. The stuff I read on aspartame in this paper convinced me to throw away anything I have in the house containing Nutrasweet/aspartame, and I will specifically shop for product in the future that don’t contain it. Diet soft drinks containing aspartame start to break down at 86 degrees F and the methanol in aspartame starts converting to formaldehyde (like they embalm people with when they die) and formic acid (which is what the toxin is in the sting of a fire ant. Scary stuff!
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One possible cause to consider was in a paper my doctor gave me yesterday on the hazards of aspartame/Nutrasweet. Quoting from this paper: snippity snip snip, snip snip.
Well, since you’ve got the paper in your hand, I’m sure you won’t mind posting the cite — the refereed medical journal from whence it came, page and date, etc. Because I for one am DYING to see a research paper that completely contradicts every reputable report on the subject that I’VE ever read. I’ll leave the scatological responses to the others. Hit it, boys!…. Wendy
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Unfortunately I have the same problem. It seems to occur more with the highs than the lows.
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I would like to hear from anyone in this newsgroup on the following: Being diabetic causing short tempers due to high and low blood sugars??? I am experiencing alot of this and would like to hear from others who experience same.
I don’t know about anyone else, but prior to dx when my sugars were over 1000 my temper wasn’t on a short fuse. It didn’t have a fuse at all! One minute everything in the garden rosy, then WHAM I went off like a nuclear explosion. I didn’t even KNOW this was happening, but apparently everyone who knew me did:-) Keeping my sugars below 150 keeps my temper well under control (I believe) Low sugars give me one of those WONDERFUL "something to write home about" headaches, so I try not to go low too. Beav
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Yes, I am type 1 on insulin and orals and I get really cranky just before a hypo. I don’t actually realise why at the time but I will snap at someone then a few minutes later start to get the other hypo indicators. My husband often tells me to go and test after I’ve bitten his head off. Vanessa.
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I would like to hear from anyone in this newsgroup on the following: Being diabetic causing short tempers due to high and low blood sugars??? I am experiencing alot of this and would like to hear from others who experience same. Thanks I’m not grouchy because I’m a diabetic, it’s because I’m an asshole.
Hey.. that doesn’t make you a bad person. At least you admit it.. look at all the other ones that don’t! — Dave — May 22, 1999 t2 08/98 Glucophage & Aspartame Davor’s daily aphorism: To live well, know the difference between good and evil. http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World!
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TEMPER, WHAT TEMPER, ARE YOU ACCUSING ME OF HAVING A SHORT TEMPER <grin – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Actually when I am going low slowly a get irritable and may even let out string of turret’s syndrome expletives before I realize what’s happening most of the time people around me ask if I need sugar or prozac when my irritability starts great excuse for getting to eat huh? Doug I would like to hear from anyone in this newsgroup on the following: Being diabetic causing short tempers due to high and low blood sugars??? I am experiencing alot of this and would like to hear from others who experience same. Thanks
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Low Bg confuses me, and I often forget things quickly…I do get short with people. Fortunately I usually recognize the symptoms and get some calories quickly. When I have high BG I become a raving bitch, and it’s not always easy to determine (till I check) what the problem is. It’s a learning process, and eventually you learn what the particular symptoms of each are and counterract them before it gets too bad. DEbbie
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I would like to hear from anyone in this newsgroup on the following: Being diabetic causing short tempers due to high and low blood sugars??? I am experiencing alot of this and would like to hear from others who experience same. Thanks I’m not grouchy because I’m a diabetic, it’s because I’m an asshole.
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Actually when I am going low slowly a get irritable and may even let out string of turret’s syndrome expletives before I realize what’s happening most of the time people around me ask if I need sugar or prozac when my irritability starts great excuse for getting to eat huh? Doug – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I would like to hear from anyone in this newsgroup on the following: Being diabetic causing short tempers due to high and low blood sugars??? I am experiencing alot of this and would like to hear from others who experience same. Thanks
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That happens to me too and the only way that I was able to deal with it was to remain focused on my temperament. If I noticed that I was becoming short tempered, I would psychologically keep it in check. It took a long time to achieve this. I also got help from my friends and spouse and they would sometimes let me know before I realized it myself. Prior to becoming completely short tempered my movements become jerky almost angry. It was a subtle thing but my observant spouse managed to point it out to me. Oddly enough it’s when my sugars run just slightly higher then the normal range that I get like this. The fact that you have recognized that you become short tempered when your sugars reach a certain level indicates that you could begin to psychologically overcome it too. It’s tough, it took me maybe 5 years.
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I also have a short temper when high or low. It is an irritant to the body and the body reacts in strange ways. belligerency is a symptom of a low and I know other t-1’s that have put there fists through walls during lows. How I found out I was a t-1, besides the weight loss and peeing all the time was I exploded at a truck driver that wanted to unload in my receiving bay and was suspended from work, This was not the first time for explosions but it was the last one the management was going to put up with. I was dx’s with a bg of 29 mmol/l three days later and started on injections
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I’m not grouchy because I’m a diabetic, it’s because I’m an asshole.
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Bad temper & irritability from both high and low sugars are common in children w type I. The most memorable example of that occured one year at camp. Most of us were sitting around the fire circle at about noon waiting for one tent group to finish cooking the hot dogs for everyone’s lunch. They were late and the kids were hungry. Right next to me on the log I watched one 10 year old boy pick a fight with another one. As I started to separate them it occurred to me that it was unusual for them to do that right in front of me –only my own boys would do that 
I started to ask the one who started it if he was low and by the time I walked with him about 20 feet to the tent to test, he was incoherent and combative. Within 15 minutes after glucagon he was awake, perfectly cooperative (though not interested in lunch) and had no idea what had happened. Examples of combativeness when extremely high are not unusual. A couple of our "frequent flyer" teenage girls would regularly assault our residents as they tried to get them squared away in the ICU, even though they were perfectly reasonable kids on most occasions. By the way, if any of you scouting types live in Pa. and would ever be interested in helping with diabetes camp or teen weekends, email me for more info. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I would like to hear from anyone in this newsgroup on the following: Being diabetic causing short tempers due to high and low blood sugars??? I am experiencing alot of this and would like to hear from others who experience same. Thanks Oh just shut up! 
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MOST DEFINATELY! I never realize that I am being nasty, but when it is pointed out to me, if I feel normal, and check I am either high or low. My other half always thought I was just using the diabetes as an excuse to be rude but now that we finally get together and test, and the results are on the meter, I am forgiven. David (who LOVES his MiniMed 507c Insulin Pump!) Assimilated into the Borg Collective on May 3, 1999, at 1200 hours
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Oh just shut up! — PRoToCoL <—
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Being diabetic causing short tempers due to high and low blood sugars???
After 32 years of havihg to deal with me, my mother can always tell when my bgs are high as it seems to affect my temperment. This will happen even if we are talking on the phone. I don’t understand this as I am always my sweet lovable self from this side. <g Guess it doesn’t look that way from other’s perspective. Marilyn
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My wife swears that she can tell when my BGs are high. I get agitated and angry easily. I hate it when she can read me so well. — Doug B. Type II, Insulin www.diabeticnet.com
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