[Diabetes-talk] High sugars in the wake of skipping a snack?

[Blindhands at aol.com]

I will add my 2 cents in here.  In the wee hours of the morning   my blood 
sugars have dropped very low.  Low enough to have had  seizures.  Low enough 
to find myself on the floor without any memory of  it.  My husband worked 
the mid night shift so I was home alone.  Now  why I am saying this is 
because I have been a diabetic for 52 years as of this  week.  When I was 7 years 
old I spent Thanksgiving in the hospital newly  diagnosed with diabetes.  
Back to the reactions.  I have as I said had  terrible reactions, but lucky 
enough addrenilin has kicked in enough to raise my  blood sugar sso I can 
move, fall out of bed, drag myself to get a piece of  chocolate, or something in 
the dresser next to the bed.  I have done all of  that as I just said being 
so disorientated.  
 
I have sat at my computer and gone into an insulin reaction sitting there  
for a couple of hours.  All I remember is hitting a computer key over and  
over again.  Then getting up not knowing where I am and going into the  
kitchen.  I am thinking I have to get some juice or something to eat, but I  
can't find out or should I say I am in such a nowhere land that I may be  
standing in front of my refrigerator and don't know how to open the door.   I feel 
the door, but the mind is just not working.  I have sat on the floor  and 
rubbed my hands and I believe it is again the adrenilin kicking in to clear  
the fog until I can open that door and get juice.  I will say that my  
husband has found me in these various stages and I can be yelling or take a  
swing at him while he is trying to take my blood test.  I will say that I  can 
not talk or I talk with slurred speech until I get the juice inme.   When I 
have the juice and it is before I am normal I am exhausted and want to  
sleep.  My husband has usually let me go to sleep and come back in 30  minutes 
after a couple of boxes of juicy juice or large glass of O J and   then wake 
me up or talk with me to besure I have returned back to earth.
 
My point here is that you could be having an reaction at that low time in  
the middle of the night and your adrenilin is working to bring your blood 
sugar  up so you end up higher then you would think you should be in the 
morning.
 
Joyce  Kane
www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com