Can someone with hypoglycemia not recognize someone they have known for more than 10 years?
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The primary fuel for the brain is glucose. When the blood glucose level is low, the brain energy supply is diminished and things don't exactly work out right. Various things can happen but disorientation and not recognizing familiar people around you is certainly one of them.
Yes, some pain medications can affect the person's state of alertness as they are sedating especially the more powerful ones.
The safe thing would be to go over all the current symptoms and medications with your doctor or diabetes carer to ensure that conditions for optimum control of the diabetes are in place.
All the best
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I have been a nurse for only 6 years in the ICU, I have seen hypoglycemia patients, sometimes they are very forgetful of time, place and people, ususally their on their way into a coma. If their hypoglycemia is boderline for them at that time that just have the "shakes" or nausea, vomiting but do know their surroundings. Pain meds can have an effect because the patient may become to sedeated to remember to eat and enhance the side effects of hypoglycemia. If the patient has true diabetes (uncontrolled) some pain meds should not be given due to poss renal (kidney) damage, which wwill keep pain meds in your body a lot longer than the average person
oh, yeah! hypog can cause a lot of weird stuff. the brain is not getting sufficient nourishment. Pain meds can add to the wierdness.
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