My husband discovered the honey trick many years ago. He uses honey rather than syrup because it is easier to control and doesn't end up all over the sheets like syrup does.
When I was on the older insulins I used to get bad night time hypos just like the ones you describe: I didn't wake up and my husband had to rescue me many times. Since I have changed to Lantus and Humalog, those severe hypos have stopped. My blood sugar sometimes goes as low as it used to, but it doesn't have that nightmare effect on the body and brain. I wake up and can deal with it myself - I keep orange juice cartons everywhere, including by the bed so I can just reach out and grab one in the dark.
I'd be inclined to try and get your husband to read this thread so he sees how you feel and the responses to it. He's got two choices though: he either has to eat a snack at night, or he has to cut down his insulin, and on days when he has exercised a lot, maybe both.
Don't these hypos leave him exhausted and with a crashing headache, and wouldn't he like to not feel that way? Hypo hangover, I call it.
The best thing I ever did was to go on a DAFNE course. I learnt more in that five days than I had managed to learn in over thirty years of experimenting by myself with no advice from the medics, and now I don't live in fear of hypos all the time, because I have learnt how to balance insulin and carbs. Mostly it works. Is there any chance your hubby might agree to give one of those a try?
When I was on the older insulins I used to get bad night time hypos just like the ones you describe: I didn't wake up and my husband had to rescue me many times. Since I have changed to Lantus and Humalog, those severe hypos have stopped. My blood sugar sometimes goes as low as it used to, but it doesn't have that nightmare effect on the body and brain. I wake up and can deal with it myself - I keep orange juice cartons everywhere, including by the bed so I can just reach out and grab one in the dark.
I'd be inclined to try and get your husband to read this thread so he sees how you feel and the responses to it. He's got two choices though: he either has to eat a snack at night, or he has to cut down his insulin, and on days when he has exercised a lot, maybe both.
Don't these hypos leave him exhausted and with a crashing headache, and wouldn't he like to not feel that way? Hypo hangover, I call it.
The best thing I ever did was to go on a DAFNE course. I learnt more in that five days than I had managed to learn in over thirty years of experimenting by myself with no advice from the medics, and now I don't live in fear of hypos all the time, because I have learnt how to balance insulin and carbs. Mostly it works. Is there any chance your hubby might agree to give one of those a try?