Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night, listening to strange noises in my house. It was very windy, and our house is almost 90 years old, but these didn’t sound like the normal creeks and grunts of an old house. My imagination flew straight to the assumption that a prowler was trying to get in . . . . or already had. I stared into the black night, wide awake, scrutinizing every sound. (In my defense, my house was robbed about seven years ago, so when I hear a strange noise in the night my mind goes right there first.) After a little while, K.C. jumped down from her favorite sleeping place (aka: on me) and ambled downstairs. Once I heard the crunch-crunch of her midnight snacking, I knew all was well with our house. If a crook had gotten in, my little fraidy cat would be cowering under our bed!
Since I was now wide awake, and since I haven’t done a middle-of-the-night finger-stick in a while, I decided to get up and test my blood.
Which made me wonder - how much of my late night paranoia is caused by diabetes throwing me a low, and how much is just me being a fraidy cat?
I used to wake up in the middle of the night with lows like that. I'd just wake straight up and be wide awake and not know why. If I didn't now why I was awake, I'd always check my blood sugar cause it was usually low. Strange, but true.
ReplyDeleteMiddle-of-the-night lows are always so much weirder than regular lows.
ReplyDeleteMaybe there was a diabetes fairy bouncing around your house, trying to get you to wake up and check!
So true.. the late night lows are always stranger than others. The D-Dreams and weirdness are abound. I'm convinced they go hand in hand.... Blame the zombies.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is like Cara. She says if she wakes up and she doesn't have to use the toilet, then she knows she is low and will test.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think you can give the zombies a pass on this one! ;)
Lows? Zombies? The only certainty is that your pajamas are awesome. :)
ReplyDeleteYou're not the only one and apparently neither am I! I have just trained myself to test anytime I wake up in the middle of the night because more often than not my symptoms show up after I test.
ReplyDeleteI am the same way too, if I wake up for no reason or have a weird dream, I always test and it is usually low. I like the idea of the "diabetes fairy" bouncing around to get you to wake up...less scary than zombies!
ReplyDeleteHave been having sleepless nights lately since i gor robbed last week but i have never thought to test late night maybe i will one of these nights just to see. N no you R not paranoid, being robbed will do that to you
ReplyDeleteLast night I woke up to a strange sound out side of my house. It sounded like a car horn going off over and over again as it passed our house. I could not go back to sleep. I tossed and turned thinking that the sound could be my subconscious waking me up to check Cara's (my T1 daughter's) blood sugar. I could not go back to sleep until I check...she was fine but you never know with T1 and I could not take the chance:)
ReplyDeletei've never thought to check my blood for a low when i wake with the paranoids in the night so i don't know if they are just paranoids/nightmares leftovers or lows...something to think about....
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some times I wake up for no reason and feel fine. I always check my blood sugars too and yes....it is low ! I think maybe we all have an angel looking over us, huh ?
ReplyDeleteLate night lows are the worst for me in terms of not over treating. It's like I'm low, panicked, and tired. Or maybe my brain just stays asleep and my body/mouth is on auto-pilot? :-)
ReplyDeletei have felt this way before to, i'll get paranoid about weird stuff and get upset really easily, my two chihuahuas (NOT low/high sugar sniffing dogs) just look at me and jump on my head
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