I gotta share this with someone. I don't want to talk to my friends or family about it since they would just get worried.
I had been eating some foods that I didn't know the carbs for and so I had to guess and apparently my guess was at least few units too high as I found out around 3 hours later...
I had just gone to bed a moment ago and was fastly drifting asleep. However, just before I completely fell asleep I suddenly snapped awake, I could feel that my BS was lower than it ever had been. At this point I was still able to function enough to manage to grab my candy off my nightstand and eat a few of them. My condition however was deteriorating rapidly and after eating 5 of them (only about 10g of sugar) I was unable to keep going as my mind, vision, and muscles were all seemingly out of my control. So I just collapsed back to my bed and could do nothing but lie there.
That's when it got really bad. Have you ever had that sense of dread and impeding doom when you are really low? The kind they describe sleep paralysis with? I didn't know hypoglycemia could cause that but apparently it can. I was absolutely horrified and couldn't even pinpoint the reason. It felt like there was some scary monster in my room or something that was going to attack me or something. I also started to twitch and shake. Everybody knows the feeling of falling you sometimes get when you are nearly asleep, snapping you awake. With every twitch I got that feeling, and those twitches came often. Probably every 5 seconds or so. I'm not sure, I couldn't really think, nor see... nor do anything. I was also sweating like a fountain. All I could do was lie there, on my side, looking forward but not really seeing anything, and weakly whisper "help" even though there was no one to hear it.
That must have lasted for about 15 minutes... then the sugar from those candies finally started to have a little effect and my condition improved enough so that I managed to get control of myself and eat some more candy. After that I lied down for a while and then went to eat some proper food.
I wish I never have to experience that again. All my previous hypos have been mild and even the worst ones have only caused weakness and slower thinking. This was something completely different and I fear what would have happened if I hadn't been able to eat those few candies before I collapsed.
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