hypo episodes in someone not diagnosed?

You wouldn't normally expect to suffer from hypos unless you were taking diabetic medications that lower blood sugar.

From your description, it sounds a lot more like a panic attack.

Welcome!

I'm 47
I've had hypos all my life (well since my mother first noticed I went white and listless if I didn't get fed regularly, aged 3)
I've been identified as pre- diabetic for about 15 years, but the truth is that should be 20+ years.
But it is only now that I am nearing a diabetic diagnosis.

Of course, I don't know whether you are hypoglycaemic, pre or diabetic, type 1 or 2, - or if there is something else going on. I would definitely advise you to see a doctor.

But in the meantime, you need to start thinking about what you are eating, especially before bed, and in the middle of the night.

Are you eating sugar/fruit juice and sweets to try and keep your sugars up? This could easily be part of the problem.

Glucose is great for countering hypos in Type 1 diabetics (they can inject insulin to compensate, if necessary). It's not so good for hypoglycaemics and prediabetics (a simple explanation is that the quicker sugar enters the bloodstream, the more insulin is produced, often in excess, that can lead to a sharp drop, a hypo.) It is like a seesaw. Too much sugar leads to too much insulin, leads to low blood sugar, leads to a hypo, leads to eating carbs, leads to too much blood sugar... and the cycle begins again, often escalating with time.

There is a condition called reactive hypoglycaemia where exactly this happens.

So until you get doctors advice I would suggest you have a non-sugary snack before bed. Ham, cheese, celery with cream cheese, pate, nuts, sunflower seeds. Nothing sweet. No cereals. No bread, cake or biscuits. You can eat just as many calories, and get just as much energy, but the difference will be that it will release slowly over several hours. So it won't dump you, white and shaking, craving sugar in the middle of the night.

Likewise, when you wake up , it would be better to have fruit juice on hand for an emergency, but you could also try cheese or any of the snacks you ate at bedtime - because they are slow release (I like baby bel, because they can live on the dressing table for a couple of days, nice and hygienic in their little red waxy wrappers).

But I repeat, see a doctor.
And you could always get yourself a blood glucose monitor. At least that way you would know what the numbers are, and tell the doctor. Evidence is always good.

My other halfs lowest was 2.8 and he was half collapsed in Sainsburys shoved in a couple of glucose tablets. The drs refused to believe any readings we took in.