My poem

[Lindipins]

Woken from a deep, troubled sleep
Heart pounding, eyes start to weep
3.2 and dropping so fast
How long will this one last
Stumble out of bed with with dread in my belly
Body is weak, legs feel like jelly
Hunting for sugar, pale and sweating,
Where is my glucose, I’m silently fretting
Shaking and shivering, blood pounding in my ears
It’s 3am I see through my tears
I’m so weary, so tired, I collapse in a heap
But I must hit 5 before I go back to sleep
Finally the magic number appears
My brain fog and shaking eventually clears
My body is exhausted like I’ve been for a run
But my sleep for this night is over, it’s done
Get out of bed, must get the kids to school
For this disease, diabetes does not rule!
Here we go, another long day
But I’m so pleased to say,

….today I’m ok.

 

[Inka]

Welcome @Lindipins 🙂 I can totally relate to that poem. Nighttime hypos are horrible and can be confusing and scary.

 

[SB2015]

Thank you sharing this with us @Libdipins

I look forward to hearing more from you and I am flagging @Northerner whi is another poet on here.

Thank you

 

[rebrascora]

Hi and welcome.

Love your poem but relieved that I don't experience nocturnal hypos like that!

I wake up feeling reasonably normal but wonder why I have woken up, scan (Libre and insulin lives under my pillow at night for ease of use) and see that I am a bit low.... usually high 3s, which is probably low 4s if I could be bothered to finger prick.... which is always in my bag next to the bed. Reach for my pot of jelly babies on the bedside table, eat one or two depending upon the reading and go straight back off to sleep..... and yes I know I should stay awake and finger prick but sleep takes me....if I drop low again, I wake up again and eat another JB or 2 and go back to sleep.... literally within a minute or two I am out like a light. Not needing to put the light on (thanks Libre) and not needing to get out of bed makes all the difference in getting straight back off to sleep for me and I sleep so soundly.
I rarely get the sweating, heart pounding hypos these days, usually just a slight sinking feeling almost like indigestion or occasionally my peripheral vision goes a bit blurry (not apparent at night obviously) or I get the tingly tongue and lips but in the night I just "wake up" most of the time and that is my sign If I am high I will wake up feeling restless and hot but when I am hypo I just seem to wake from a deep sleep and then go straight back to it. Thankfully I have good awareness, usually low 4s-high 3s, but just not the really nasty debilitating hypo reactions unless I am doing exercise and levels are dropping really fast and even then I can usually eat my treatment and continue at a reduced pace.

I remember my first few hypos when I was new to insulin, being as you describe but so pleased I don't react like that now! I wonder why some people have such nasty reactions and some don't and why I don't anymore. I do wonder if it is because I don't fear them anymore so I don't panic. I am aware that not fearing them is possibly a dodgy mentality, but fear can be horribly debilitating in itself. I went through a phase of sleeping badly early on and testing through the night because I was worried about having nocturnal hypos and then I went through a spate of them in a fortnight, realised that I could deal with them fine and I would wake up when I dropped low and since then I don't worry even though I live on my own.

Really sorry that you suffer so badly with them but do make sure to have everything you need within reach of your bed.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Thanks for sharing your poem @Lindipins

Hope you don’t have those overnight lows too often 🙂