Loss of Brain Function with Hypoglycemia

Since November, my hypoglycemic symptoms have continued to worsen. The hypoglycemia is now causing me more acute problems than the Lyme disease causes. During the course of an average day for me, I experience nausea, shakiness, sweating, hunger, and the inability to think clearly every two hours and sometimes even more frequently. The symptom that has become the most prominent is my rapid loss of cognitive function when my blood sugar drops. One minute I will start to feel slightly shaky and hungry and five minutes later, I cannot comprehend what is on a menu. My husband has had to read a menu and decide what to order for me. As my blood glucose levels drops, my brain doesn't have enough glucose to function properly. It is a terrible and bizarre feeling. When I start to feel like I need to eat, I only have five minutes or less before my brain stops functioning. I have to concentrate extremely hard just to make a sandwich. I realize that this symptom is more unusual than the sweating and the shakiness that most of my friends experience when they have hypoglycemia. On Thanksgiving Day, I did not eat enough protein with my lunch and my blood sugar plummeted. While we were sitting at the table for our holiday meal, I could not think straight. My husband says that I said some strange things during the meal. I remember feeling weak, spacey, and faint (and this was after snacks and glucose tablets). I just wanted to lie down but I had to keep eating because I knew that only food would make me feel better. I don't remember what we talked about during Thanksgiving dinner. I know that I sat at the table and I ate two plates of food but that is all that I remember. After the food was digested and it had raised my blood sugar level, my brain function returned to normal. Not only is my cognitive function getting worse with the hypoglycemia, but also I have to consume more quantities of food before the symptoms disappear. Why did I have to eat multiple snacks and two plates of Thanksgiving food for my symptoms to abate? A recent example of this brain function issue is when my Mom started asking me some basic questions while I was hypoglycemic and I could not answer her and I could not process her talking to me. It was too much for my brain. I felt terrible at the time and I just wanted her to stop talking. Ten minutes and one sandwich later, I had recovered. I keep telling my endocrinologists (yes, I have more than one) about these symptoms but they tell me that they do not know how to help me. I am the rare patient that they do not know what to do for. I am sick and tired of being the rare and “special” patient. I just want to find a cure for one of my problems. If my hypoglycemia could get better or resolve, then I could concentrate on treating more of my Lyme symptoms.