I woke up shaking like a leaf and sweating like mad I couldn't test. But the am one I did finger prick.
I use insulin pen novorapid. I thought I put it in mu profile will fix that.
Yep, that's sounding pretty much like a hypo. When you start dropping, your adrenal glands squirt out some adrenalin to tell the liver to release stored glucose to raise levels. The shaking and sweating is a side effect of the adrenalin rather than the low glucose. It's why people are often jittery after a big fright/car accident. The sweat tends to be cold. If it wasn't cold, it might be something else.
The important thing is to figure out what the best treatment for it is. Many of us eat way too much in the panic of it and end up way too high. It can take a bit of discipline to overcome the panic of a bad hypo, and a lot of it depends on how much active insulin you still have on board, so there are no hard and fast rules for every situation.
For a modest hypo with little or no active insulin, 10 to 15 grams of fast sugar like glucotabs will tend to raise about 2 to 3 on the meter, but it takes a while to get into the bloodstream and have an effect, so wait about 10 mins before testing, and rinse and repeat if it doesn't seem to have had an effect.
You might still feel jittery for a while, but that's because the adrenalin takes a while to wear off.
If there's still insulin on board, a bit more sugar followed up with longer acting carbs like a couple of oatcakes can be a good idea.
Sometimes the liver will try to restock its glucose stores after a hypo, so watch for a drop later in the day.
Remember that novorapid lasts for about 3 to 5 hrs depending on the person and dose size, so when taking a shot near bedtime, it's worth thinking about the next few hours too.
If you're on novorapid, I assume you're also using a basal insulin too. If the dose size is too large, that can also lower you, at a slower rate, but still enough over night to get you into hypo territory, so maybe discusd that with yr docs. Dose size with basal depends a lot on your weught, so if you've lost weight recently, might be worth considering a reduction.
That's all from a T1 point of view. There might be different T2 approaches to hypo treatment, many say just a cracker or two ot a slice of apple is enough, it's something people have to find their own answers for as it varies so much.
