Night time hypos

[Northerner]

Just interested to hear how people know if they've had a night time hypo. My blood sugar has always been fine in the morning, apart from one or two low readings, but sometimes I will be feeling very 'under the weather' throughout the day. I feel headachy and often a little nauseous and lethargic. I've never taken readings during the night, but did notice soon after diagnosis that if my BS was below 10 on going to bed, that would mean I felt poorly the following day, possibly meaning that I had dropped low during the night and then 'recovered'.

Is this just me? Do others actually know that they are having a hypo in the night? During the day it's obvious to me, because I get all the symptoms, but during the night if I wake up I just feel tired.

 

[Alistair]

I'm not sure either, I go to be at around 5.6 and wake up about the same, but feeling aches and pains most days which I put down to the statins

 

[allisonb]

Hi there. I can usually tell when I've had a hypo during the night and have recovered. I wake up with a stinking headache which doesn't usually shift all day and feel generally rubbish. It's quite scary thinking something like that can happen during the night and you don't wake up isn't it? I had a serious night time hypo when I was four months pregnant last year, fortunately my husband woke up and noticed that I was unconcious and called an ambulance, I woke following a glucagon injection, feeling absolutely rubbish and with two strangers in the bed room!

 

[Lizzie]

Night hypos usually wake me up. It is hard to describe a hypo anyway. Night hypos are terrible, I feel so woozy and confused and usually eat too much or the wrong thing. My sugars have been higher in the mornings recently, I think maybe I am having night hypos and not waking up at the time so my reserves of sugar in my liver are kicking in and sending my sugar up in the morning. I just hate having to set an alarm to wake me in the night to find out though.

 

[xbethanyx]

night hypos are the worst!! i always have dreams that i'm eating... lol. i usually always manage to wake up and go munch, but sometimes my body just wont wake up even though my minds awake... weird!!

 

[aymes]

I'm quite lucky in that I always seem to wake up with night time hypos, it does take me ages to work out what is happening though and then I always over-treat it and wake up high. I always feel very tired and have a terrible headache after hypos, it's quite recognizable so if I have slept through something I can usually tell.

 

[sofaraway]

another indication of a night hypo is waking up high.

Do you get up at all during the night? if so then you could test your blood sugar and see whats happening. Or set an alarm for different times during the night for a week to check you aren't having hypo's.

Around a month ago the DSN I saw thought I was having night hypo's, so i had a 3 day CGMS to see, and it's turned out I wasn't, I just stay very steady overnight

 

[aymes]

it's almost as if I talked that one up, I haven't had a night hypo for months and had a horrible one last night! I woke up but think I lay there for a good twenty minutes before I registered what was going on, by that time I was pretty low and out of it! I think I then started talking to myself as I went downstairs to get juice, telling myself what I was going to do " right Amy you're going to go and get some juice, then drink it, then have some toast" and so on!
Woke up this morning with an awful headache and aching muscles and a bg of 9.2 which wasn't too bad as I usually really over treat night hypos.