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Originally Posted by Stuboy  im 23 and i dont wake up with an alarm to test during the night... i've tried.... it just doesn't happen lol. |
When my BG is good, I'm a very heavy sleeper. When it's low I am wide awake in about 2 minutes and it takes another 15-20 before my adrenaline stops pumping enough for me to get back to sleep. It's been this way since I was diagnosed at 11 (I'm 24 now) and didn't change during puberty, not even a little.
I first got my pump a few months ago and was worried I wouldn't wake up for night testing so I didn't sleep very well and I had no problem getting up, but as soon as I became comfortable with it any and all alarms just got turned off and I would go back to sleep.
I've been the only one in charge of my care since coming out of the hospital; my mother loves me but could never bring herself to prick my finger or give me a shot unless it were a dire emergency. That doesn't mean to say I was responsible all the time, but fortunately I am usually quite lucid when I go low, even when it's very low (I hit 29 at school once), and I always had glucose tabs or a good substitute within reach. You're right about how much the disease varies (my brother is type 1 also, doesn't test, has excellent A1C numbers and gets completely incoherent and giggles like a schoolgirl if he goes low) but if your son has a lot of trips and camp stays in his future I'd say this is a good time to have him take some more control and start to try to recognize any patterns, eg whether a certain activity makes him go low more often than another, so that he can learn to deal with them on his own.
