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Hi everyone,
When I was first Dx'd and took a diabetes education course.
The educators in that course lead me to believe that if a diabetic had a hypo while they were sleeping; they would die and never wake up.
A few months after taking that course. A friend said his diabetic wife was loosing sleep because she was having hypos in the middle of the night. And these hypos were waking her up.
Every once in a while; maybe once a month. In the middle of the night I will experience an extremely vivid dream and wake up in the middle of it. I'll lay in bed wide awake for maybe 20 to 40 minutes before falling back to sleep. But I don't realize this has happened until I wake back up in the morning. Hence I've never been able to measure my BG while this occurs.
I asked my doctor if this means I'm experiencing a hypo during the night. But she refuses to give me a satisfactory answer.
So what happens when a T2 diabetic experiences a hypo while sleeping ?
--ET
When I was first Dx'd and took a diabetes education course.
The educators in that course lead me to believe that if a diabetic had a hypo while they were sleeping; they would die and never wake up.
A few months after taking that course. A friend said his diabetic wife was loosing sleep because she was having hypos in the middle of the night. And these hypos were waking her up.
Every once in a while; maybe once a month. In the middle of the night I will experience an extremely vivid dream and wake up in the middle of it. I'll lay in bed wide awake for maybe 20 to 40 minutes before falling back to sleep. But I don't realize this has happened until I wake back up in the morning. Hence I've never been able to measure my BG while this occurs.
I asked my doctor if this means I'm experiencing a hypo during the night. But she refuses to give me a satisfactory answer.
So what happens when a T2 diabetic experiences a hypo while sleeping ?
--ET