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Hypo 5am and hard on myself

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Laura davies

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Hi as most of you know i am recovering from major spine surgery. Have been feeling low which my family have said its normal. I am wearing a back brace when i am mobile and sleeping is difficult as its hard to turn over and i cant lay flat on my back without a pillow under my knees as my back wont let me so i have disturbed sleep. I've been given amytriptiline and diazapam. I woke feeling sweaty at 5am and i knew i was hypo but i couldn't rationalise getting out of bed, its typical next to my bed i always have a bottle of lucozade but i slept in my sons single bed as Richards snores kept me awake so no lucozade. I lay there a further 30 minutes thinking won't my liver kick in and give me glucose but of course one shouldn't rely on that. I managed to get up put brace on and slowly come downstairs and test 2.1 hair and body soaked in sweat! I ate 2 cadburys chocolate pots and a scotch pancake i knw not ideal but i was starving. Crawled back to bed and shivered for an hour and fell asleep. All day it's affected me and i realised I was hungry going to bed so ate 2 scotch pancakes and took 2.5 units for them but that was too much as low in carbs but i assumed. Naughty bad mistake.
 
Aw, Laura, sorry to hear you're having a tough time of it. Why not put hypo treatments all over the house for the time being, so you don't have to make a big effort and suffer unnecessarily? I hope your recovery is over soon.😱🙂
 
Oh no. That's really Horrid. :(
 
Do hope you had a much better night Laura and are feeling much better this morning.

jusme
 
Hope your feeling better Laura and that you have a better weekend. xx


John.
 
Hope your day improves, Laura.

And please remember to position some Lucozade or something sugary within reach of the bed you sleep in tonight.
 
Thank you all, i have put lucozade all over the house last night and although i had a very restless night no hypo thank goodness. I wish you all a good weekend x
 
hope you have a better night tonight
 
When I read on here about the difficulties you Type 1's have I thank God I am type 2. Laura I hope you feel better soon. God Bless.
 
Please try to stop being so hard on yourself Laura, you've had a very difficult time over the last few years and just had a major operation. We all miscalculate bolus doses sometimes (I did a cracker a few weeks ago), especially if tired and distracted. Night time hypos are the worst because often you're only semi conscious and vaguely aware. So repeat after me, "I must not give myself such a hard time", these things happen and you've got your fizzy sugar in place now so should it happen again you're all set (finger crossed it won't). I hope you start to feel better soon and can get some sleep, because everything feels better when you've had a good nights sleep 🙂.
 
Here here Kooky, hope you are having a better day ( and night) Laura 🙂
 
Hi Laura. I hope you are having a better day today. We were told in church this morning to pray for someone going through a difficult time and to make sure we then told them. I prayed for you today. I hope you are not offended by that. Xxx.
 
Dear kooky you have given me a big smile when i read your post it was as if you were in the room telling me. Thank you. You are so right and it was heartfelt your words. Slept so much better last night which definitely helps the mind and body the following day today i feel more like my old self. Im glad its not just me who has over bolus! Night time hypos are the worst. X
 
Its typical in that situation (normally got lucazade nxt to you) that would wind me up to. Hope things are getting better 🙂
 
Sorry you are having a grim time Laura, hope it gets better soon. I admire your courage so much. Take care and hope things just get better each day for you. Sending you a hug {}. Hope you sleep well and uneventfully tonight. 🙂
 
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