Completely Blind
I’m lying there in bed, wide awake, I had been tossing and turning for sometime and finally just resolved myself to getting out of bed because there was going to be no further sleeping. I look at my pump, it’s 3:33. I had only gotten 5 and a half hours of sleep. Not quite enough for me to make it through the day and yet I had no clue why I was so wide awake.
I got out of bed, went to the computer surfed around, checked email, and was quickly boreded by the monotonousness of doing such a thing at not quite 4 AM in the morning.
I wondered out to the kitchen, grabbed a diet 7up and decided that I needed to go back to bed, I needed to sleep at least 3 more hours.
It just wasn’t happening…it was 4:15 when I decided that perhaps, just perhaps, I should check my blood, maybe something was wrong. Doing so revealed that I was low. 57 to be exact. I wondered back out to the kitchen for a juice box before I drank it and went back to bed.
I was completely blind to the symptoms of that middle of the night low. Me waking up and being WIDE AWAKE at 3 am didn’t seem like a symptom to me, it didn’t even register on my mind to stop and think about checking my blood. My brain was alert instead of the usual sluggishness that it gets when I wake up low in the middle of the night.
This is a new symptom for me for middle of the night lows. I’m grateful that I woke up because that means I didn’t have a seizure. In the future I just have to remember that if I wake up and I’m wide awake in the middle of the night for a seemingly no good reason, I just need to check my blood.
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March 31st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I have the same symptom–usually I notice it when I’m trying to fall asleep earlier in the evening, though. Good thing you caught it!
March 31st, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Yes, I have had similar experiences. And, since I also have “regular” insomnia it’s hard to tell the difference. And, as you said, there is a certain clarity about the state of awakeness from a nighttime hypo - isn’t that just the weirdest - when your usual symptoms are fuzzy thinking………………. argh.