[JediSurfer]

This has happed to me a few times. I feel really very tired and want to go to bed. On several occassions I have done just that and paid the price for not testing. Nearly happend tonight. After fighting the sleepyness and testing the reading was 2.0.

Anyone else?

[caswellhb]

Are you ok?

Heather

[JediSkipdogg]

That's a classic symptom of running low. On the opposite end for running high is not wanting to sleep but also not get out of bed. It's happened to me a few times, but I'll wake up an hour or two later and then eat everything in site (not literally.)

[shabbie]

that sure was low rich, hope you are okay now?

signs that i am heading low are yawning and feeling sick.

highs just make me feel really drowsy. oh yes and thirsty and pee a lot.....well you all know the drill

[JediSurfer]

I'm fine now. I was fine then. Bloody strange how such low numbers only make me tired. Ten years ago if I hit a very low number it resulted in shaking, sweating and confusion. But that rarely happens these days.

I also dont get thirsty or pee as much as I used to when high. I must have evolved. Maybe its the force keeping me from harm.lol

The only other thing I have noticed over the last few years is a serious affect on my breathing. Highs and lows give me asthma symptoms.

[Jan B]

Sounds very familiar.

One of my newer signs of being low while sleeping is going into "thinking loops", where I cannot get back to sleep. I get up and check BG and it's nearly always 55-60.

Lately, with much better control, I don't even feel bad until I'm about 40. That's not so good really . . .

[Cyborg]

I find myself very sleepy and it makes it hard for me to wake up in the morning when my bg is low. This extreme sleepiness when waking is a clue for me that my bg needs to be checked asap.

[gobbly2100]

Oh I get that, I cannot sleep no matter what if I am low, I just lay there trying to sleep but I just can't sleep and when I test my blood is is usually low if I can't sleep.

[ant hill]

Originally Posted by JediSkipdogg

That's a classic symptom of running low.

After 36 Years I often ask myself this question as I get sleepy for no good reason and now I know DOH!!

Originally Posted by Jan B

Sounds very familiar.

One of my newer signs of being low while sleeping is going into "thinking loops"

Heh, Me too. You go into confusion and even then you don't even think that you're low!! Sad state of affiars.

[cheryl]

Some days low's wear me out, sometimes, they make me extremely hyper, the only time low's still make me shakey is if I was already on my way down, when I bolused and about 45 minutes later after bolus takes or starts it's peak I drop and shake....otherwise, it depends, and lows' now make me irritable...a lot, oyyyy....I can feel a low and wake up in the middle of the night, but if I am low when I am getting out of bed, I get stubborn don't want to wake up when I have to and I know I am low then...

Cheryl

[xMenace]

Originally Posted by JediSurfer

This has happed to me a few times. I feel really very tired and want to go to bed. On several occassions I have done just that and paid the price for not testing. Nearly happend tonight. After fighting the sleepyness and testing the reading was 2.0.

Anyone else?

Absolutely. It is a tell-tale-sign for me, especially in the afternoons.

[BlueSky]

Originally Posted by JediSurfer

.... Bloody strange how such low numbers only make me tired. Ten years ago if I hit a very low number it resulted in shaking, sweating and confusion. But that rarely happens these days.....

That is the type of hypo unawareness that comes with having T1 for a long time. The stress response to low blood glucose fades over time. And I find, after 30 years of being T1, that it has virtually disappeared.

I find that my bladder fills up at lower blood glucose levels than it used to. It used to happen when my blood glucose went over 10. But I now find that I have to get up to go to the loo at night if my BG goes over about 8.5 for any length of time. Apparently it is normal for the renal threshold to come down in long-time diabetics.

[grace girl]

I'm usually not sleepy while low, but very, very tired once I get it corrected. Now if I'm asleep and low I do find it extremely difficult to wake up, and I've learned to recognize that. My first sign when low (before the massive shakes set in) is just the sense that things are odd. It's like my thinking and perception are off kilter. I don't always recognize it right away...it's so subtle at first that it's easy to pass it off as something else...but I'm trying to pay more attention to it.
And my heart pounds...like I just ran up three flights of stairs.....a few weeks ago I had a virus that had my pulses racing...I must have checked the bg 700 times thinking I was low...and usually I was high because I was sick.

[Funnygrl]

I always think of hypo unawareness as no symptoms. Seriously, when I had it badly, I'd test and be like 25 and have no symptoms, just have tested cause it was time anyways. I didn't feel tired, shakey, stressed, sweaty, anything. Just looked at the meter and, "Oh ****." Luckily, between pumping, running higher for awhile, and using a CGMS, those days are gone.

[MinimedPumper07]

Hey i think i just had the same thing happen. I was super tired and i felt super depressed and wanted to sleep, but i tested and i was at 60.... i was sure it felt like depression....