Do you wake up during lows?

[BriOnH]

A long time ago my friends told me that if you tell yourself a bunch of times before you go to sleep "I will wake up a bunch immdidiatly after i have a dream". I didn't believe them so i tried it. To my dismay it actually worked and it was a big PITA! Well this same trick also worked for me with going low. Seems every time I go low while sleeping i will wake up (knock on wood!). It is always at 60! Soon as I hit 60 I wake like clock work.

[2high]

I tend to wake during hypos anyway. I usually dream that I am drowning or swimming or playing under the sprinklers, and that my legs stop working... I wake up, and am usually drenched with sweat (hence the water in the dreams, I guess) and trembling like a leaf in a wind storm...

But cool on the mantras, Brian... I'll have to try that! Maybe I can wake before the confuzzled, "I dont have a darn idea what to do" stage in future...

[JediSkipdogg]

I will wake up for a low and test and treat.

I wish the same could hold true for a high though. I'll be high during the night, wake up, not test, not correct, nothing. Then wake up that morning and be running say 250 and then put 2 and 2 together that my symptons overnight were me being high. Just wish I would have thought of that then because that could save my A1C some.

[gettingby]

I seem to have weird dreams/nightmares when I go low at night. I'll have one of these dreams, wake up, test immediately and lo and behold, low bg. I just thought I was strange.

[lgvincent]

I will sometimes wake up if I have an insulin reaction in my sleep but I often just go lower. I get sleepy when my blood sugar is low and will fall asleep if awake. Brandy and Sidney were great helps with both problems because they would try and wake me but now that both are gone, I'm kind of stuck on my on.

[mageerobin]

A low will wake me up and I usually roll over and try to go back to sleep. Then I feel the shakes coming and I get up--Like the past two nights. I have been adjusting my lantus.

Only once have I awaken when I was so low that my whole body was cramping. I was in the fetal position and I could not straighten up to walk. I was in such pain that I thought I was going to throw up. So I crawled to the bathroom thinking this was a stomach virus. With me the moment before I :puke: fells just like going hypo. I sent my wife after some juice and by the time she comes back I tell her "I am about to pass out, if I do call 911, but don't call them before just let the juice work. In 15 minuets I felt better. I did not test so I do not know how low I was. I would guess 20 or below. I do not know why my internal alarm system did not wake me sooner that night, and I pray that it never happens again.

[Funnygrl]

I can only remember one time I ever woke up during a low, and I am sure I have gone low at night more than once.

[w5wjp]

That is what scares the **** out of me about hypo's....not waking during a hypo. Nothing short of an atomic bomb will wake me up. Luckily, I have only had hypo's during the day, usually in the afternoon.

[spring]

I usually wake up like a shot if I'm low. I won't necessarily be dreaming or anything of the sort so if my eyes fly open in the middle of the night for apparently no reason, then I know it's because I'm low. Usually when I test it's not too bad and I'll just suck down a juice box from my bedside table and go back to sleep. I've had a few times where I begin to think "why on earth am I awake a three in the... oh duh why else" :tongue:

Sometimes I even sit straight up upon waking. :p I'm the most awake and alert if I'm low. It's the handiest way to ensure I won't be late for anything if I'm up first thing in the morning to a low. No sleepily resetting my alarm.

That said I've also -not- woken up a few times and when I do get up with my alarm, my liver's kicked in and my brain doesn't work and I end up nauseous all morning while I wait for the return of my ability to think.

[Dewey]

Usually, I do wake up. Sometimes I'll have nightmares when low, which wakes me. If I'm "too far gone" (which hasn't happened in a loooong time), hubby will wake me & help me eat a bowl of oatmeal. He's the best! :love:

Otherwise, it's like Spring said....Up like a shot!

[kgm0612]

When I'm having a low during the middle of the night, I usually wake up because I am sweating or have a bad headache. I keep a spare meter in my nightstand, along with candy of some kind.

Karen

[grace girl]

I wake up, but I'm not always aware that I'm low. I usually can't get back to sleep and will eventually decide to get up and check, and the symptoms hit after I'm walking. Then there was the nightmare I had last week, waking up drenched in sweat with my heart pounding...I'm pretty sure I was low, but like a fool I didn't even think to check.

[tori~]

Most of the time I wake up when it’s low but there have been a few times in the past 43 years I dropped out of sight… with out waking… but when I do wake, I know I’m low because it seems what ever I’ve been pondering about wakes me with a crystal clear solution. . I’ve fried a lot of gray cells but I’ve solved a lot of problems …lol

tori~

[notme]

I wake up during a low and usually just can't go back to sleep. I try to ignore my symptoms and roll over and try to sleep, but my body won't let me. When I get out of bed, I usually will recognize that I am low. I hate to eat when I am low so I will try to either drink milk (always makes me go up quickly) or grab a cookie. I am VERY bad about lows at night. I will do anything rather than get up. You think after twenty years of this I would figure out the lows and just get up.

I am one of the weird people that HATE food when I am low. Everything sounds disguisting and I can't make a decision of what to eat. I will test, say "wow, I am low" and then walk out of the kitchen. :shot:

[JJeenn]

I used to wake up for some lows but don't seem to anymore. When I was younger I'd wake up, but then I'd also have mornings where I'd be so low I wouldn't wake up and my parents had to help me (scary).

Over the past few years I've stopped waking up altogether, although I sense lows fine during the day. I think in the past two years I've woken up maybe twice for lows. I know I have lows sometimes because I'll set my alarm for 3 am and sometimes test at like 2.9 and know I wouldn't have woken up if it weren't for the alarm. I also tend to turn the alarm off and then not remember doing so in the morning and/or sleep through it, which makes me wonder if I was just tired or was low.

[Cyborg]

I voted yes, but then again, what happens before you wake up??? Sometimes I wake up in a sweat. Does that mean I went low and my liver kicked in before I woke up? :hmmmm:

[Emm]

I used to wake up to them, but just lately I'm pretty sure I've had a few and slept through :(

One day last week I sorta woke up, knew I was really hot and felt odd. Reached out to turn the electric blanket off (it would have been off already!) but reached out to the LAMP not the blanket! I fell asleep again before anything else happened, so I never tested. I hate not knowing...

I have had a few times like that in the last month or so. Hopefully now that I've started on Lantus things will be a lot more even!

[Miss Jade]

I find that if I wake up from a nightmare that I am usually low. I basically test anytime I wake up from a deep sleep, as something must have triggered it.

[Georgia]

I tend to wake up during the night when I am having a hypo - sometimes I am drenched in sweat :( The hypos are more frequent due to the pregnancy.

[jen_slc]

I do wake up these days. Just last night I hit 43 and I woke up in a pool of sweat... my scalp was sweating! I do remember it took my brain a few times to come to - I usually wake up initially, think huh, I don't feel right, then roll over and go back to sleep... maybe for a few minutes until I wake up again and take some action. I'm usually very confused with nighttime hypos and crash into the walls but I made it to the kitchen bruise-free last night!

About a year ago, I had been sleeping through my nighttime hypos and waking up low in the mornings. I was on twice the Lantus dose that I needed (but didn't know it b/c that's what my old doc told me I should be on), and this lasted for ~2-3 years. I think what happened was, the nighttime drops were happening so frequently that my body adapted to them and I didn't get the signals that used to wake me up.... sort of an unconscious nighttime hypo unawareness. As soon as I found a new doc and got my Lantus sorted out, I stopped dropping through the night and now when I do experience the odd nighttime hypo, it wakes me up. Thank goodness for that!

[gobbly2100]

If I have a low in the night I tend to wake up and just lay there for a second wondering why I woke up and then I usualy think "Strange . . Oh well, Back to sleep" but then something tells me there is more than just waking up and I put my arms in the air to find they weigh like 20 stone and then I have to fight the urge of falling back asleep with the motavation to sort my blood out.

[BriOnH]

I have 1 bottle of grape juice, 1 of gatarode and 2 big bottles of glucose in my headboard that has a bookshelf. I'll usually wake up in a snap too. I don't bother testing most of the time. I'll just take what i believe is appropiate. Shake a little under the covers, and if the sugar fully kicks in it will put me right back to sleep.

[desert_reefer]

I normally don't wake up. My wife is normally ready to kill me because my alarm is going off at 2:30am and I'm not getting up. One time my sugar was so low and she was fighting me to get me to get up and eat, she actually got on top of me with a medicine dropper of orange juice trying to get something in me and I grabbed her wrists and threw her into a book shelf about 5 feet away. She was so pissed she went to grab the phone to call 911 and out of anger said "fine you'll go to the hospital and be late for work". Next thing she knows I'm jumping out of bed and into the shower. Needless to say she was furious that I was more worried about being late for work than I was throwing her across the room. When I came to in the shower I was really disoriented and came out and said man my sugar must be low. I thought I was going to die from the look she shot me after a comment like that. I didn't remember a thing other than what she told me.

[sofaraway]

i would vote yes, i have only expereinced this once, and it was after drinking alcohol. I'm not sure if i ever get lows and don't wake up. i think not as there is no sign in the morning of that having happened.

[blue_eyed_devil]

I wake up when i go low... i get a strange sensation, i also can't get to sleep if my bgs are dropping... I agree with jedi too, i wish i could wake up if i was high cause i miss them and feel like c**** when i wake up.

Interestingly my mum used to wake up too when i was low, it was strange, i don't live at home anymore, but she sometimes still knows, go figure!

[Tattoo azz]

:cheers: I do wake up but can't remember why.If i'm high i get heavy arms,legs,pains in muscles etc.I no longer drink,when i did and got drunk i usually woke up in E R with doctors and friends asking **** fool questions

[EdgyAuthor]

I always wake up when my blood sugar goes low. Also, if my blood sugar drops sometime after I check it for bedtime and before I actually go to bed without me realizing it, I won't be able to fall asleep. Good to see that my body is protecting me.

[ThuntDon]

At night I don't wake up. My wife has had to give me gulcogon more times than she or I can remember. Since being on the pump, no lows that required any help. I now have a CGMS, and it has done it's job & alerted me to a low BG. Don

[Starlight]

Im so lucky that my body wakes me up when going low..I'll wake up, feel a little weird and disorrientated, try to go back to sleep but just cant. Its not until I push those covers off me that I feel the severity of the low. Also, I sometimes cant fall alseep for what seems to be no apparent reason.. So I'll go check my bgl's and of course, they're creeping up to a low, so thankfully my body keeps me awake. For once, My body is doing something right! :tongue:

[lilituc]

I'm not sure. I've only woken up with lows twice, and both were around 56. I was horribly ill, too. Could barely keep anything down. I know I've been low all night before (higher than 56, though) and I didn't wake up. So I don't think I have enough data.

[Del]

I have really bad dreams, I wake up and generally have problems seeing- sort of a black patch in my field of vision in the light, in the dark the same patch shimmers gold or silver. Luckily this doesn't happen too often. The nightmares are horrible.

[buzzborne]

Yeh I tend to - though sometimes I haven't but have woken will **** of a headache the next morning which is difficult to shift.

[KCP]

I tend not to wake up! Luckily my DH is a really light sleeper and often feels me kicking hi (fitting). He knows what to do now, which is great. When the night hypos started he had no idea and just left for work. I woke up three hours later with a mega headache andi explained to him what had happened and he understands NOW...

[Linn]

I know this thread is a little old, but I just had to respond to it. About a week ago, I woke up and felt groggy, I should have gotten up then and tested but went back to sleep :( When I got up an hour of two later, my bs was 30!!! I downed the glucose and was fine but that is so far the lowest low I've ever had while sleeping.

[christie]

i usually never wake up,my son hears me or realizes and them he helps me.

[Simon]

As far as I know I don't have night time hypos. That could mean I just sleep through them but how would I know?

[orange7]

I usually shake so hard it wakes me up, drenched with sweat. Cant recall any strange dreams tho..

[am1977]

Sometimes...

[SuzannaOR]

Fortunately I still wake up for lows, but it is a big worry, because I don't feel a low until I am in the 50's whether awake or asleep. I generally wake up 2 or 3 times during the night and will check my blood sugars then. I have a tendency to go high around 3:00 AM and have to take insulin to correct. But I have checked at midnight and been surprised to be at 45 or so and feel fine.

Suzanna/OR

[blue eyes]

I do – at least I found out recently I wake up while low. Woke up during the night with my first low (1.3mmol/l - 23.4) – it was being soaked in sweat that woke me up… http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/Blue_Eyes1/Misc/uhoh3.gif
Think if I wasn’t so sweaty I probably wouldn’t have woken up though.

[theblondebee]

I seem to have weird dreams/nightmares when I go low at night. I'll have one of these dreams, wake up, test immediately and lo and behold, low bg. I just thought I was strange.

That is so wierd.. I will have a dream and in th dream I will tell myself your sugar is low you need to eat something.. I wake up and my sugar is low.. I thought I was strange to. whew I feel better.

[type1tenorlady]

I usually wake up (or can't fall asleep and after twiddling my thumbs for a while I figure out why), except one time when I was in college. I was on Lantus at the time and took it all at night (very very bad for me) and I was dreaming, realized that I was still asleep, tried to wake several times but couldn't. Just so happens that year I had a single so I didn't end up waking until about 3 in the afternoon with my BG at 40 (that usually wakes me up like a shot so I'm guess I had to be in the 20s).

I'm just the opposite with highs. If I over eat or under bolus (usually on holidays or something) I will drift off almost immediately and be asleep for a good 2 or 3 hours before I wake up really thirsty and having to pee.

[Bsbllmom]

I know this is an old thread but this is all new to my. My son is 11 and he has been running low for the last 3 days. I didn't realize that he would be running so low at night while he was sleeping. What should I look for and what should I tell him. UUGGHH I can't believe that I didn't think about that.

[rocky]

I tend to have most of my lows during the night, and I THOUGHT I would always wake up, but after reading through this forum here, I am sure there are times when I wake up with unexplanable highs that I had run low in the night, and got a liver dump without any notice.

[ClaireZk]

Almost ALL my lows are at night and have been since diagnosis. I've always had the nightmares and woken up drenched in sweat. But right now I am on a crazy schedule and not getting enough sleep. I caught myself twice just in the last week waking up and saying "Yeah... I should really go test..." and then rolling over and going back to sleep. Then I either wake up even lower OR I wake up at 200+. In 16 years I never had this problem before...

I've never had a really bad hypo. I've been so low before that the meter just read "LOW." Another time it was 18. But I've never fainted, had a seizure or needed assistance. I've always been able to stumble down to the kitchen and make a bowl of cereal. But this really scares me...