Today I wake up with a BG of 44 mg/dl, I didn’t feel hungry or the eager to eat!
Not much of low symptoms either, felt little dizziness, no sweating!
I wonder why? Is it because I had type 1 diabetes for 28 years? Is it because diabetes damaged my nerves!
I often wake up a little low but don’t really feel any symptoms of a low - I find if I just eat my breakfast as usual it regulates pretty quickly.
Alternatively, half a cup of fruit juice always regulates a low, and you don’t have to be hungry to drink it!
Good luck…
True, however after drinking a cup of juice it came up to 60…you don’t feel any symptoms as well! how low were you?
Thanks for contributing
Hypo symptoms are different for different people, and different over time depending on hypoglycemic unawareness.
I myself never really had the “hungry when hypo” symptom.
Some will jump in and start shouting “nerve damage” but really hypoglycemic unawareness is much more complicated than that. Google it. It’s possible to get hypoglycemic awareness back but it takes some work, carefully avoiding all hypos for a stretch.
For me, what really trashes my hypo awareness, is having a string of consecutive hypos on consecutive days. But if I avoid hypos for a few days it comes back.
I’m rarely hungry if my bg is low. Sounds like your basal was too high for your previous evenings meal/activity if this morning low is unusual…and yes, my sensitivity to low bg is not what it was years ago.
We must be diabetes twins, Ahmad! I woke up this morning and I was 43! Very unusual for me. My basal has been going up and down lately and I had two lows during the day yesterday so I think I’ll take it down another unit. I had no symptoms that I recognized, but then I am fairly out of it when I first wake up anyway…lol. I just took two glucose tabs and got up to 67, so I’m drinking my cappuchino and then am going to bolus and then eat without waiting. I never have the symptom of being super hungry from lows (for which I’m glad!)
My low yesterday was interesting. I had taken my blood sugar two hours after breakfast and was 80. Then I set out pulling my cart with my laundry. The laundromat is only 8 blocks away but when I got their I was totally wiped out. I mean even putting the laundry into the machines seemed a major chore. I sat down for a minute and thought about it and then went duh…I must have gone low. I didn’t have my meter but I do always carry glucose so I took 2 tabs and a little while later felt fine. I spend a lot of time just kicking it at home where I am usually pretty sensitive to low symptoms, but the symptoms when active seem different…more extreme fatigue. Maybe I didn’t feel the low this morning because it was the third one since yesterday. Always an adventure!
Hello my twin! :o)
My 60 was 65, we are really close my friend. I do experience the laundromat thing, it will happen with me in a busy day at work and some times after shopping and buying groceries, which is perfect, open all the bags and start eating! hehehehehe
When I am low I eat because I want to live. I don’t want to leave my wife without someone to take care of. After 44 years of marage we are attached at the hip.
Agree with what you said s6954118, am not discussing this matter. Am wondering why I didn’t feel it and what cause it to be like this!
Thank you
I think it often has something to do with whether it was a crash or a slow decline in your blood sugar. Do you feel other hypos during the day?
By the time I finished my cappuchino and tested again I was a nice 92, so I bolused, waited 15 minutes before breakfast and then ate.
To respond to your original question, Ahmad, now that I’m thinking better…lol. I think an occasional low is just part of the Type 1 repetoire, but if it is fairly often then it means one of our doses needs changing. I also have heard that frequent lows can cause hypo unawareness that quickly corrects when there are less lows. So I wouldn’t worry about it being nerve damage, but just work on decreasing lows.
The symptoms only indicate the rate of increase or decrease of BS. So if you are gradually sliding into a low then most likely you won’t feel.
It further depends on a lot of other things like your body weight, the recent history (like the patterns of BS in the last year or so) of BS
Further 28 years is a long period and it i snot uncommon to not notice lows. Our body tries to adapt itself. if you have had a lot of lows in the recent past then the body automatically adjusts to low BS by not triggering the symptoms.
e.g for people who maintain a bad control of their BS (like A1C > 9.0 for considerable time) they get low sugar symptoms even their sugars dip below 180.
I will say most of them!
I agree with what you said, I been one of those people with bad control, used to have the symptoms below 200. Having the pump fix that for me! 
Thank You Emily (The pump)