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Night hypo

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Northerner

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Woke up last night about 2 hours after going to bed, didn't feel particularly low but thought I'd test anyway as I usually do - living alone means there's only me to make sure I'm safe 🙂 To my great surprise I was 2.3 😱 I don't really think it was the fact that I was low that I woke up, as I didn't have any symptoms - of course they began as soon as I saw how low i was! Sat up for half an hour to make sure I had risen OK and woke to 5.7 this morning.

Time to reduce the lantus I think! It can only be due to that - I woke to a 3.9 a couple of nights ago. Flippin' diabetes!
 
Northerner said:
Woke up last night about 2 hours after going to bed, didn't feel particularly low but thought I'd test anyway as I usually do - living alone means there's only me to make sure I'm safe 🙂 To my great surprise I was 2.3 😱 I don't really think it was the fact that I was low that I woke up, as I didn't have any symptoms - of course they began as soon as I saw how low i was! Sat up for half an hour to make sure I had risen OK and woke to 5.7 this morning.

Time to reduce the lantus I think! It can only be due to that - I woke to a 3.9 a couple of nights ago. Flippin' diabetes!
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It could well have been the hypo waking you, even though you didn't have any symptoms. This has happend to Carol too. She woke up wondering why, as she didn't need a wee. After a few minutes of laying there it occurred to her that she might be hypo. And YES, she was.
 
Monica said:
It could well have been the hypo waking you, even though you didn't have any symptoms. This has happend to Carol too. She woke up wondering why, as she didn't need a wee. After a few minutes of laying there it occurred to her that she might be hypo. And YES, she was.
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Yes, I don't get a lot of hypos at night (thank goodness!) and sometimes I have symptoms, sometimes not, but I always test to make sure as it's quite scary to think that there is no-one who would notice if I wasn't quite with it! One of the worst things fr me is trying to get back to sleep again because you tend to confuse the 'falling asleep' feeling with another hypo coming on! Roll on the day when they invent a reliable night hypo alarm! I've seen those wrist monitor things but they don't get very good reviews for reliability.
 
That must be a horrible feeling!
Yes, I heard the same about those wrist things. They work on the principle of you're sweaty when hypo, so it alarms. Of cours if you're sweaty because you're hot, it alarms too....😱
 
Sorry Northener that you had a bad night and it must be scary when you're on your own. In the nicest possible way I'm not convinced that my OH would notice if I had a really low BG unless I was unconscious for several hours!!!! I slept in this morning (I'm on holiday) got up said to OH "I'm really sleepy" so he told me to go back to bed as he was walking Susie.........fortunately I tested first and it was 3.0 - I felt completely normal until I tested and then I got shaky!!
 
Amanda, I think even if there was someone around I wouldn't rely on them in any way as however much I loved them I wouldn't be able to trust them 100% as I've always been very self-reliant! I usually wake up before I get so low - usually upper 3s - but last night's was the lowest I can remember, might even be my lowest. But I've had a lot of lows over the past few days so maybe my sensitivity to them is decreased a little.

Hope you don't get a hypo hangover - I seem to have escaped it, although I did sleep later than usual and felt like staying in bed this morning! 🙂
 
Hi Alan

I know that you don't like to but you will probably need to keep your BGs a little higher for a few days to increase your hypo awareness. Mine was a rebound from correcting a BG of 20 (too much pizza - but very yummy) BG was 12 at bed but went up late in the night because of the gastroparesis and for the same reasonsometimes my corrections aren't enough or, like with the one today, they are more than effective - which is fun!!! But I'm not complaining because the gastroparesis has been relatively good the last 48 hours so I'm making the most of it and really enjoying eating yummy food!! No hypo hangover thank goodness.........in fact no hangover from anything:D which means that I'm trying to be a good girl and do my studying 🙄
 
It was probably my own fault. I was 5.3 before bed so had a chocolate biscuit - I'd probably have been better off having a slice of toast and peanut butter which is what I usually do but I was tired and couldn't be bothered to make it 🙄 I suspect that the rise from the biscuit had gone by the time the slight peak I get from the lantus kicked in - with the PB my levels would have stayed higher for longer. You live and learn! 🙂
 
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