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Old 06-29-2009, 05:59 PM
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I had temporal lobe epilepsy for many years before I was diagnosed T1, but the grand mal seizures had become infrequent (about one a year). After I became T1, I started having a lot more seizures, and they were usually triggered by low blood sugar. But with me, BG had to drop below 2.0 mmol/l before this happened.

You could have a predisposition to epileptic seizures, and lowish blood glucose is the trigger. Anti-convulsant medication may help. But you need to focus your energy on avoiding low BG. In particular, be very careful with alcohol, as it causes you to go low during the night.

Discuss it with your endo, and he might refer you to a neurologist. Just make sure that the two of them talk each other, because they will be treating different elements of the same problem.
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