Lows at night

Low blood sugar, or insulin reactions as I call them at night, for me are horrible.  I have never, I repeat, I have never since I was diagnosed on September 17, 1965 been able to wake up when I was extremely low.

I understand that there are a lot of juvenile onset diabetics who are very lucky in that when they are low, they can somehow wake up when they are low.  I don't know how they do it.  But I am not always able to do this.  There are times when I am sleeping and I do not wake up because of my low blood sugar.  The worst part of this is I can be 35mg/dl or lower and wake up and take care of myself one time, or my husband will wake me up and we get things taken care of.  

Then there will like what happened last night.  I can be 35mg/dl and lower and basically  unconscious and have to have an injection of glucagon.  When I have an injection of glucagon, I am sick for the rest of the day, my stomach has been so nauseous since I had the injection of glucagon.  It will be this way for several more hours.  I hate when my husband has to give me the injection.  Add to that, my blood sugar will be high, for my fasting blood sugar.

What really upsets me is there are juvenile onset diabetics out there who have this deluded idea that every juvenile diabetic in the world must be able to tell when they are low when they are awake or sleeping, if they cannot they have some sort of problem.  That is simply not true.  When you drop very rapidly when you're sleeping, I cannot see how anyone can tell that they are low, I just cannot.  Some people say they dream about being hungry or eating.  That's really nice.  That doesn't work for me.

Juvenile onset diabetics, just like the medical professionals who care for us, have to realize that all of us are not the same.  We all are different.  There are some similarities, but nobody is the same.  I'd love it if I could wake up every time I'm low when I'm sleeping, it has never happened and I don't think it's going to begin now.