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

[Michael Park]

Hi there.

I must say that mercifully, I have not yet had a hypo at night. Even 
though I am on tablets only, I have had lots of hypos, but God willing, 
I hope not to have anymore hypos with my medication change, although I 
have been warned by my counsellor that I might still have the odd one 
from time to time and that when I go out, I should always carry glucose 
on me. I must admit I have been rather careless about the matter, and I 
guess that when I least expect it, I am going to encounter a hypo.

Only yesterday morning, I had a fasting sugar of 85, which served as a 
rather poigniant reminder that I could still get hypos.

I make a point of keeping glucose next to my bed at night for just in 
case I do go hypo. If I ever think that there is a problem with my 
sugar, the procedure is that I wake my wife who has got the glucometer 
handy on her side of the bed so that a test can be done immediately and 
glucose administered if I do turn out to be hypo.

I have found that a lot of people think that diabetics only have 
problems with high sugars and when I have talked to people about hypos 
and what one should do about them, they look at me as if I come from 
another planet.

Michael Park
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On 2010/11/21 21:06, Blindhands at aol.com wrote:
> 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
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