Can you have a hypo in a dream?

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Bob ...with thanks for privacy to: - 08 Oct 2003 22:30 GMT

This is a bit strange, I had a dream last night that I was having a hypo
and needed glucose tablets, I remember that I couldn't find any and then
found a couple of almost empty packets and took those.

I'm pretty sure it was a dream, but when I got up and started to work, I
felt like sh.t, exactly as I do if I've really had a hypo and I had to
go back to bed for a while. My bg on waking was normal to high.

Now I don't sleepwalk (as far as I know), but it's just kind of spooky.
Did I have one or not? Did I get up and fix it while still asleep? I
know you can't tell but has anyone ever had a similar experience?

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Al Hardy - 09 Oct 2003 00:01 GMT

> This is a bit strange, I had a dream last night that I was having a hypo
> and needed glucose tablets, I remember that I couldn't find any and then
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> Did I have one or not? Did I get up and fix it while still asleep? I
> know you can't tell but has anyone ever had a similar experience?

Yes, I have, and more than once.

Al.

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Bob ...with thanks for privacy to: - 09 Oct 2003 01:07 GMT

> I had a dream last night that I was having a
> hypo... ...has anyone ever had a similar experience?

> Yes, I have, and more than once.

Do tell what happened Al. Did you actually have one or was it just a
dream? Or don't you know either?

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Flying Rat - 09 Oct 2003 01:13 GMT

Bob ...with thanks for
privacy to: said this...

> > I had a dream last night that I was having a
> > hypo... ...has anyone ever had a similar experience?
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> Do tell what happened Al. Did you actually have one or was it just a
> dream? Or don't you know either?

The Hypo Dream, happens to me too!

I think I'm dreaming but feel strange. But most of the time I realise
that I AM in fact awake, and the pieces fall together. Nip next door
(it's where I keep the meter, in the computer room) and usually get at
least below 4 reading.

Presumably I become lucid enough to sort it out, but I could see the
sorting out also being dreamlike if I went low enough. I'm lucky that I
get good warnings.

Ratty

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Al Hardy - 09 Oct 2003 07:05 GMT

I sometimes wake knowing that I`m half awake, and stagger ( on one occasion
crawl ) along the hall to the hypostop in my living-room. But I never
remember getting back to bed, though I do.

On other occasions I don`t remember at all whether I did actually have a
hypo, until I discover I`m short of hypostop or Luco tabs or dextro trabs
whem I should not be.

Al.

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Beav - 09 Oct 2003 00:22 GMT

I've had MANY MANY dreams of being hypo, and the result was always waking
with a HIGH bg. (liver dump no doubt). When I've woken DURING one of these
"i'm having a hypo" dreams, I WAS hypo in the real world, so I think 2
things are happening.

One is the dream is a defense mechanism to wake you up and do something and
the other is it's a "reminder" to your counter-regulatory system to do
something if you DON'T wake up:-)

You are not alone in this.

Beav

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Bob ...with thanks for privacy to: - 09 Oct 2003 01:04 GMT

> I've had MANY MANY dreams of being hypo, and the result was always
> waking with a HIGH bg. (liver dump no doubt). When I've woken
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>
> You are not alone in this.

I'm glad I'm not alone, I thought I was going a bit doo-lally. I've
been trying to make sense of it. I sort of decided it must be an
unconscious thing telling me to wake up and take some glucose, but I
don't think I actually did. I guess, as I've been eating carbs recently
, maybe my liver did its "dump" and I was OK. The problem is, I have
the awful feeling I [slept?] walked around the house looking for glucose
tabs and maybe found some, then sleep walked back to bed. I keep so
many half empty packets around in every room these days, I can't tell
whether some have gone or not.

All I know is that I seemed to have the feeling of having had a hypo
once I'd got up.

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Robert Totman - 09 Oct 2003 06:56 GMT

May I make a suggestion?
Keep a bottle of Lucozade beside your bed.
Regards, Robert.

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> I'm glad I'm not alone, I thought I was going a bit doo-lally. I've
> been trying to make sense of it. I sort of decided it must be an
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> All I know is that I seemed to have the feeling of having had a hypo
> once I'd got up.

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Beav - 09 Oct 2003 23:11 GMT

> > I've had MANY MANY dreams of being hypo, and the result was always
> > waking with a HIGH bg. (liver dump no doubt). When I've woken
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> many half empty packets around in every room these days, I can't tell
> whether some have gone or not.

I used to always have a pint of milk with me when I went to bed, (don't
anymore since I binned off human insulin as my basal) but I seriously doubt
you went walkabout and didn't wake up:-)

When I've gone SERIOUSLY hypo during the night, it's been a time of
devouring. Anything and everythng would get downed and bollocks to how I
felt 20 minutes later:-) I can't imagine sleeping through THAT.

> All I know is that I seemed to have the feeling of having had a hypo
> once I'd got up.

Then you probably did have a regulatory response Bob. Over the years, that
response has got a lot weaker with me, but also over the years, I've changed
insulins from time to time and now I use beef, it's been a LONG time since I
had a hypo so deep it required a "natural" response.

I love the "slowness" of beef and also it's mild effect whenever I HAVE gone
hypo. I was under the impression that Lantus was supposed to have the same
profile as beef, but from what I've been reading lately, it doesn't seem so
to me.

Beav

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Bob ...with thanks for privacy to: - 09 Oct 2003 23:26 GMT

> I love the "slowness" of beef and also it's mild effect whenever I
> HAVE gone hypo. I was under the impression that Lantus was
> supposed to have the same profile as beef, but from what I've
> been reading lately, it doesn't seem so to me.

Trouble is i don't think I could take beef insulin. Having been a
veggie for so long, I just find the idea of injecting beef rather
upsetting. It sounds ok but I just couldn't (yet).

Still who can tell where I'll be in another year?

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Beav - 11 Oct 2003 01:06 GMT

> > I love the "slowness" of beef and also it's mild effect whenever I
> > HAVE gone hypo. I was under the impression that Lantus was
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> veggie for so long, I just find the idea of injecting beef rather
> upsetting. It sounds ok but I just couldn't (yet).

It's not for everyone Bob, but I think even Muslims are allowed to use it.
Same with the Jewish folk. They can use pork insulin, but if you don't feel
like it's the one for you, no-one (least of all me) would insist you use it
or even try it. If all else FAILS mind you, it's an option and I have to
tell you, it doens't LOOK like a cow :-))

Lantus is supposed to have a "beef-like" profile though, so if you've not
used that, it's something to consider. Some people love it, some don't, but
you don't know until you try. I actually disliked the idea of injecting beef
myself before I was backed into a corner with hypo problems and decided to
give it a shot. I'm bloody glad I did too, and now I'm building stocks to
ward off the day whe it's pulled from the shelves like I'm usre it will be
one day. I've already got about 5 years worth and it's going to be 20 years
worth before long.

> Still who can tell where I'll be in another year?

Who can tell where ANY of us'll be in a year. I hope it's still here, but
life can be a bitch.

Beav

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