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Does your husband recognize that he is short-tempered? Does he calm down and apologize? Would he cooperate with getting a check up?
How well managed is your husband's diabetes? Is it time to have that checked? When was his latest A1C? I'm not aware that blood sugars in a well-managed range cause mood swings, but highs and lows can change how one feels (at least for me) and that in turn can make one "crabby."
Depression also causes mood swings. Fortunately, depression is treatable if it is diagnosed.
Lots of different things could be going on here. A thorough medical exam would be a good starting point for figuring it out.
ive heard crazier things but i haveta say , not much crazier .
Here is the best way I can think to explain it. Sugar is a crystal (think of how it looks close up, angular, with sharp edges, squareish). When in your blood, especially when the sugar level is too high, that sugar is like having tiny razor blades flowing throughout your body. The sugar cuts into the arteries and veins it flows through, slashes the tissues in organs (particularly the kidneys) causing scarring and hardening of the arteries (Atherosclerosis). Over time, the damage the interior of the body grows and grows, inflammation and scarring overtakes, which eventually resulting in the part of the body becoming irreparably damaged (such as when renal failure occurs, or when a heart attack happens from the hardening of the arteries of the heart). The brain is not immune to this. Just as with the rest of the body, when the blood flows through the brain with too much sugar (too many razor blades) the capillaries and arteries of the brain being to harden, can break down, clot, and cause strokes. The reduced capacity and the reduced ability for the brain to receive oxygen causes vascular dementia.
Because of this link, it can be said that mood swings due to vascular dementia can be connected to diabetes. There have been medical studies that have proven a correlation (though not yet causation) of diabetes and dementia.
Angel
How old is your husband?
For example, we were going to a nice restaurant and I said, honey, I believe this people need to be more dressed up than casual. He went off the deep end, said I was trying to tell him how to dress and he started cussing. I was dumbfounded and we didn't go to the restaurant. This is just one incident. He then pouts and doesn't speak to me. He is a wonderful person but I never know what is going to trigger the angry mood swing. He can be happy one minute and angry the next. Any suggestions?