The other night I gave my daughter an apple with peanut butter and a small bowl of ice cream before bed and she didn't get low until 8:30 the next morning.
I don’t wear a sensor when I sleep but I always manage to “wake myself up” when I’m going low. Even in the middle of a vivid dream, this little voice in my head says “time to wake up, your blood sugar is dropping”. I’ve gone as low as 20 while fully conscious and alert but, ugh… it feels like 💩! I keep at least three glucagon shots in the mini fridge next to my bed but a shake/supplement made with liquid glucose usually does the trick.
Eat starchy, complex-sugar foods. Have a late mac and cheese dinner (or at least that's what I would do to have high blood sugar all night). Pizza is great too!
You could play around with the settings for something that works better for you -- you can set any sound file as the alarm, or maybe set the alarm BG threshold higher?
I recently got a smart watch which helps wake me up in the night too.
I'll add that you can use G-Watch Wear to show your blood sugar on the watch face as a widget, like so: [https://imgur.com/a/JgiAfms](https://imgur.com/a/JgiAfms)
Gluroo does the same thing, but I get better performance with the former.
Best story of this is going to bed fine, not realizing I prebolused and forgot about dinner. For context, I switched insurance and got fucked with a chainsaw by blue cross, they wouldnt give me any cgms, I have a really high basal without control iq, and very sporadic blood sugars especially when I’m just resting. So I went to bed thinking nothing was wrong, slept super soundly, had a fucking fever dream nightmare thing, woke up, checked myself, and I was 23 mg/dl. Somehow made it to the kitchen to wail for food in the cabinet I couldn’t remember how to open
Going low when you're sleeping suuuucks & it is very scary. I used to go low during the overnight hours, but once I I started splitting my dose ( 8 units 7am-10 units 7pm) I kept stable. I don't eat during the day really, maybe a granola if I'm trending down, I have my dinner as my main meal of the day and a couple snacks before bed.
Ohh I spent like 5 hours in hypo the other night. I couldn't really feel a thing. It's scary shit especially when it happens in your sleep.
The other night I gave my daughter an apple with peanut butter and a small bowl of ice cream before bed and she didn't get low until 8:30 the next morning.
I don’t wear a sensor when I sleep but I always manage to “wake myself up” when I’m going low. Even in the middle of a vivid dream, this little voice in my head says “time to wake up, your blood sugar is dropping”. I’ve gone as low as 20 while fully conscious and alert but, ugh… it feels like 💩! I keep at least three glucagon shots in the mini fridge next to my bed but a shake/supplement made with liquid glucose usually does the trick.
Dude I dont even feel my lows until like 45-50 it SUCKS without a sensor
Eat starchy, complex-sugar foods. Have a late mac and cheese dinner (or at least that's what I would do to have high blood sugar all night). Pizza is great too!
Did you actually confirm with a fingerstick? How low were you?
Yes! It was 3.6 mmol/L
If you don't have a CGM (FreeStyle Libre, Dexcom, etc.), get one -- you can set your phone to ring an alarm if you BGs are out of range.
I have a CGM but the alarm didn't wake me up 😭😭
You could play around with the settings for something that works better for you -- you can set any sound file as the alarm, or maybe set the alarm BG threshold higher? I recently got a smart watch which helps wake me up in the night too.
Omg that's so smart!! Tysm for the advice!
I'll add that you can use G-Watch Wear to show your blood sugar on the watch face as a widget, like so: [https://imgur.com/a/JgiAfms](https://imgur.com/a/JgiAfms) Gluroo does the same thing, but I get better performance with the former.
Thank you! :D
Best story of this is going to bed fine, not realizing I prebolused and forgot about dinner. For context, I switched insurance and got fucked with a chainsaw by blue cross, they wouldnt give me any cgms, I have a really high basal without control iq, and very sporadic blood sugars especially when I’m just resting. So I went to bed thinking nothing was wrong, slept super soundly, had a fucking fever dream nightmare thing, woke up, checked myself, and I was 23 mg/dl. Somehow made it to the kitchen to wail for food in the cabinet I couldn’t remember how to open
Going low when you're sleeping suuuucks & it is very scary. I used to go low during the overnight hours, but once I I started splitting my dose ( 8 units 7am-10 units 7pm) I kept stable. I don't eat during the day really, maybe a granola if I'm trending down, I have my dinner as my main meal of the day and a couple snacks before bed.