Missed night time hypo

I know exactly what you are talking about. In my experience, the longer your blood sugar level has been down, the worse you feel. Take it easy if you can. It may be some hours before you lose the headache and start to feel normal. With me, apart from the headache, I just ache all over in these circumstances.
Try not to react by over-doing the carbohydrate. I find it a real temptation when I'm feeling rough.

isjoberg said:

I know it was due to a overcorrection Bolus dose, but have never felt like this after a hypo.

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How close to bed did you take a correction bolus and was that with or without food? As in, was your bolus dose for a snack and to correct a high BG - or just to correct high BG and no food?

I try (where I can) to not eat close to bed time. The reason being that I should then be heading to bed with no active bolus insulin in my system. If I do need a correction bolus before bed though, I normally do this without any food as I know my correction factor is fairly constant at around 2.3mmol/l per unit. I find it easier to correct without food, as it rules out any errors I might make when carb counting.

It may be worth your while finding out exactly what your correction factor is? A lot of people tend to assume that they're somewhere between 2-3mmol/l, but in many cases this isn't accurate enough - especially when correcting fairly high BG's.

Ah yes, the infamous "Hypo Hangover". I think many of us have experienced it, but until recently, most of us thought it was only just before waking rather than all night. Part of what you are feeling is the effect of your body chucking a ton of glucose out of your liver to get you out of it. If you ever experience a severe hypo, the effects of a glucagon injection are very similar and a good reason to avoid them.

What I'd suggest is that you are careful during the next 24 hours. Your body will try and recover glucose from the blood for the glycogen it used in reacting to the hypo, so you are more susceptible to another one and potentially will be more insulin sensitive. Make sure you test regularly throughout the day, and perhaps go to bed a little higher than normal.