• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

Blood Sugar and sleep

S

ShyGirl

Well-Known Member
Messages
467
I felt ill last night and thought I was having one of my "attacks" (been having them for 18 months but had to cancel H pylori test ) but decided to a reading even though i'd eaten foods I avoid- cake , chips , box of chocolates- and was probably high.

I managed to climb into bed with some help (I felt drunk and like I was about to vomit) and take a reading which was 3.5 .

I don't know if this is considered too low to sleep on but I couldn't manage a drink or even a sweet and even though i'd last taken meds an hour and a half before and wondered if i'd go any lower.
I woke up at 8.1 for some reason , went back to sleep a couple of hours later and woke up at 6.6. Was I right not to have eaten anything? Any ideas as to why I dropped so low ?
 
Has you Dr ever considered the possibilty of 'Re-active Hypoglycaemia ?'

If you don’t eat enough calories for our bodies’ needs, then our blood-glucose levels drop too low. This can happen if we skip meals, fast, diet, or exercise on insufficient food.

Eating a high-sugar meal can cause ‘reactive hypoglycaemia’, because the sudden rise in blood-glucose from the sugary food triggers an over-production of insulin, which in turn makes the blood-glucose levels fall too low.
Click to expand...

Just a thought ........ :|

3.5 mmol/l would be too low to sleep on so a carby snack was in order after boosting the level with 2 or 3 Glucotabs. As a type 2 you would normally 'liver dump' during the night which would push your levels back up for a while.

There have been rare cases where a Type 2 has had to have medical intervention, but it is not normally considered dangerous. However, any Type 1 could find themselves in serious trouble though.

You would be feeling bad because it was so low.....hypo symptoms.
 
Even if you don't feel like drinking or eating anything, you have to make yourself the next time you feel like you did and your reading is that low! It is the low sugar that makes you feel ill and going to sleep on a hypo is dangerous.
 
RH is usually found in non-Diabetic's but we did have a member here a while ago who was found to be suffering from this because he was actually getting Bg levels that were almost non-Diabetic levels. He was a Type 2. I am sorry but I can't remember who it was. It was caused by some underlying medical condition is all I recall. I have no idea if this is what is happening to you. It is a remote possibility which may be worthy of a mention to the Doc. :?
 
Back
Top