Worst night of my life!
24M with Type 1 diabetes for the last 9 years, and I genuinely had the worst hypo of my life a few nights ago.
I came back from dinner at my cousin’s place and felt my sugar dropping. Checked it — around 130 but trending down fast. Usually fruit helps me stabilize, so I ate a mango and went to sleep thinking I’d be fine.
I wasn’t.
My sugars apparently stayed below 60 for hours while I was asleep, and my alarms either didn’t go off or didn’t wake me up. I woke up around 5 AM completely disoriented. My whole body was shaking, I could barely breathe properly, my vision was blurry, and I had unknowingly peed the bed. I’ve had hypos before, but nothing even remotely close to this.
I tried to stand up using my bed and nearby furniture for support, but the second I let go, my body just gave out and I collapsed straight onto the floor on my chest/ribs. Even a week later, my ribs still hurt from the fall. Thankfully no fracture.
What scared me the most was how helpless I felt. I couldn’t properly feel my legs, couldn’t think clearly, couldn’t make much sound, and couldn’t even find my phone because my vision was so blurred. I just remember dragging myself across the floor, trying to hold onto furniture because I was terrified of falling again.
Eventually I managed to get to the washroom and then somehow got outside my room and called for my mom. I was bleeding a little too — probably hit something while falling, but honestly I still don’t remember exactly what happened during parts of it.
After having sugar/candy, I slowly started coming out of it.
I don’t know why I’m posting this honestly. Maybe because the whole thing scared the hell out of me. I’ve lived with Type 1 for years and thought I understood hypos, but this felt completely different. It genuinely felt like my body was shutting down.