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Originally Posted by Angeldove 
Another fear that I've had about insulin is that I'm afraid that it might bring my sugar down too low during sleep. This happened to my 91 year old grandmother many years ago and I know that's in the back of my mind too. I don't know why, but I think I rationalized that as long as it was oral medication that I could more "know" if that might happen, but over the past few months with my oral medications dropping my sugar too low in the middle of the night, I have come to the conclusion that my thinking is wrong and that the oral medication does not keep me any safer from this happening.
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That happens... night lows are fairly common. If it happens, just means you need to readjust your dose of meds or eat something before bed.
If it drops in your sleep, you'll wake up, know something's kinda off, and take a pee, eat something, go back to bed.
It's nothing crazy :P
