Welcome Decmusic! Don't scare us like that....we just met! I am glad that your blood sugar has come up. I am T2 on insulin and I can only remember once when my blood sugar was stubborn in coming back up. I went through several glucose tabs and maybe a small increase but not where I needed to be, so I got out the old reliable can of regular cola and that brought it up like a charm. I hope you don't get a terrible high with all of the carbs you ate, but it was better than going any lower. Join us later and let us know how you are doing.
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It sounds like hypo unawareness. This does happen and I have it to a point. My blood glucose needs to drop below 40 or 2.2 before I start feeling shaky or light headed and those are the only symptoms that I get. You are dropping down to a dangerous level and you need to be prepared to call for help when you get that low.I initially thought about posting in the welcome bit, but it being 4am I kinda had to get to the point!
Thankyou all for your support. I was a little freaked out - I'd never had anything like that happen before. As it turned out it stayed quite low, so I didn't get to sleep, but hey, nothing I can do now! I'm going to keep a close eye on it today.
On a slightly different note, one thing I briefly touched on was my immunity to low blood-sugar symptoms. It appeared about a year ago, and until I worked out what it was I would frequently not wake up in the morning until someone shook me, or wake up and find myself playing the piano or in the shower with no idea how I got there. I managed to sleep through 6 hours of an alarm going off in one ear and almost constant phonecalls in the other. The docs i went to were nowhere with it, they sent me to sleep specialists before I worked out what it was (I tested the moment I realised it had happened and discovered I was at 1.8).
Now I know what it is, the only thing I've found that works is to aim my BS level for 9 every night. Above 10 and I frequently get insomnia, below 8 and I wont wake up properly. It's a glorified balancing act. The medical diognosis was that because I don't feel the symptoms I don't wake up to deal with it, thereby allowing my BS to drop dangerously low.
So my question is - do any of you have something similar, or know of someone, and how are you/they dealing with it? There's a medical name for it, which none of the doctors I went to knew.
I hope that makes sense! If you think I should make a new topic for this please say
dan
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