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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The friend" data-source="post: 600869" data-attributes="member: 120668">Hi everyone,I'm new to this condition so please excuse my ignorance, recently my friend moved in with me and she has diabetes (Type 1 I understand as she has to inject herself with insulin before meals). She has been injecting herself for around three years as she suffers from high blood sugar levels, recently she has been suffering from morning fits where she wakes up screaming in pain and can't move her body. The only thing I can do is calm her down with breathing techniques so she is in control of the pain and ask her what her body needs as surprisingly in most cases it's not insulin that helps her, it's sugar. We recently went to the hospital that normally treats her in Malaysia (this is where we live) as they checked everything and they said she is fine and everything is normal, but I know in my heart it is not and of course by the time we get her to hospital her bloods are balanced because we need to take immediate action to get her out of what I call the "danger zone" when it happens. Thing is this is happening every other day and she unusually sleeps a lot, has anyone had any experience with this before? Also is it possible for someone to go from high blood sugar diabetes to low blood sugar diabetes and if so what normally causes this and how do you treat it? I'm no doctor, in fact I have little experience prior to this with diabetes at all so I'm afraid I'm doing everything wrong and that I'm potentially creating more problems, but what I do know is that she is not fine as the doctor is suggesting. Anyone out there gone through this before?</blockquote>

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