Hello
This is my first post and I am the husband of a type1 diabetic, the reason for my post is to ask this community their opinions and hopefully gain some insight.
My wife is 35 and was diagnosed with Type1 diabetes during the pregnancy of our first child, around four years ago. She had not suffered any diabetic-like issues in the past and neither I or my wife have any close relatives who are diabetic so it came as a bit of a shock to say the least, she has never been overweight and regularly ran in long distance competitions before our first child (and diabetes) came along.
We also have a baby boy 10 months old and I am bessed to say they are both healthy and happy.
The purpose of my post is to ask for opinions on my wife's behaviour during hypos, I have searched this forum an the Internet at large without finding any meaningful answers to my questions.
My wife rarely has hypos during the day, in which she is an account manager for a university which requires her to drive to and from her clients place of work. Ms of her hypos happen a night and are are infrequent, I would say hypos occur once every couple of months or so.
I recognise my wife is having a hypo when she becomes restless in bed and sweaty, this is where the problems start for me. I usually give her a little nudge and turn the bedside light on, explaining I think she is having a hypo to which she always says "I'm fine" and refuses to take a sugar reading. I then get a glucose tablet from a box I keep in the bedroom and offer it to her, to which she then pushes my hand away saying she is fine.
She says stuff then doesn't make sense and five or ten minutes go by with her refusing to accept she is having a hypo, all the time becoming more sweaty and incoherent. This is extremely distressing for me as I cannot understand why she refuses to have a drink or take the glucose tablet.
This happened again around 5am this morning and the kids were wanting to come into the bedroom and cuddle with us like we do each morning but I didn't want to let them see their mum in a hypo so I took them downstairs. My wife continued to refuse any form of sugar and I had to call her mum to come over and look after the kids whilst I tried to coax my wife into taking a drink or a tablet, it was all very upsetting indeed.
Does anyone else have any examples or advise what I should do, or why she refuses to believe she is having a hypo, I wod really appreciate any comments at all and thank you to all in advance, the bravery of diabetics truly humbles me as the effects of this terrible disease are often overlooked by society.
This is my first post and I am the husband of a type1 diabetic, the reason for my post is to ask this community their opinions and hopefully gain some insight.
My wife is 35 and was diagnosed with Type1 diabetes during the pregnancy of our first child, around four years ago. She had not suffered any diabetic-like issues in the past and neither I or my wife have any close relatives who are diabetic so it came as a bit of a shock to say the least, she has never been overweight and regularly ran in long distance competitions before our first child (and diabetes) came along.
We also have a baby boy 10 months old and I am bessed to say they are both healthy and happy.
The purpose of my post is to ask for opinions on my wife's behaviour during hypos, I have searched this forum an the Internet at large without finding any meaningful answers to my questions.
My wife rarely has hypos during the day, in which she is an account manager for a university which requires her to drive to and from her clients place of work. Ms of her hypos happen a night and are are infrequent, I would say hypos occur once every couple of months or so.
I recognise my wife is having a hypo when she becomes restless in bed and sweaty, this is where the problems start for me. I usually give her a little nudge and turn the bedside light on, explaining I think she is having a hypo to which she always says "I'm fine" and refuses to take a sugar reading. I then get a glucose tablet from a box I keep in the bedroom and offer it to her, to which she then pushes my hand away saying she is fine.
She says stuff then doesn't make sense and five or ten minutes go by with her refusing to accept she is having a hypo, all the time becoming more sweaty and incoherent. This is extremely distressing for me as I cannot understand why she refuses to have a drink or take the glucose tablet.
This happened again around 5am this morning and the kids were wanting to come into the bedroom and cuddle with us like we do each morning but I didn't want to let them see their mum in a hypo so I took them downstairs. My wife continued to refuse any form of sugar and I had to call her mum to come over and look after the kids whilst I tried to coax my wife into taking a drink or a tablet, it was all very upsetting indeed.
Does anyone else have any examples or advise what I should do, or why she refuses to believe she is having a hypo, I wod really appreciate any comments at all and thank you to all in advance, the bravery of diabetics truly humbles me as the effects of this terrible disease are often overlooked by society.
