{"id":1751,"date":"2025-12-18T13:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:21:56","slug":"low-blood-sugar-high-trauma-a-night-with-type-1-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/low-blood-sugar-high-trauma-a-night-with-type-1-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Blood Sugar, High Trauma: A Night With Type 1 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-min.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1764 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/400;width:350px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-min.png 400w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-min-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-min-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-min-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-min-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-min-96x96.png 96w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-dots wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-normal-font-size\">12\/17\/2025<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Last night, I woke up at 4:00 a.m. completely disoriented\u2014shaking, sweating, trembling, my vision blurry and blotchy, barely able to see. My Dexcom was screaming. I grabbed my phone and saw my blood sugar was <strong>40<\/strong>, with the arrow still pointing downward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I\u2019ve lived with type 1 diabetes for <strong>over 20 years<\/strong>. This is certainly not my first rodeo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But nighttime lows are a different beast entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Being ripped out of sleep is disorienting for anyone. Add a severe hypoglycemic episode on top of that, and it becomes terrifying. Your brain is starved of glucose\u2014<em>the very thing it needs to think, remember, and problem-solve<\/em>\u2014yet you\u2019re expected to act quickly and correctly. To know what to eat. Where it is. How much. To stay calm when your body is screaming that something is very, very wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-background-color has-background has-large-font-size\"><strong>Last night was especially rough.<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-src=\"https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tired-min-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1766 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/682;aspect-ratio:1.5015015015015014;width:372px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tired-min-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tired-min-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tired-min-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tired-min.jpg 1280w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I usually keep sugary snacks by my bed for emergencies like this. I had candy in my nightstand\u2014but I could barely open the wrapper. My hands were shaking so badly that every second of struggle made the panic rise.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I wouldn\u2019t wish a nighttime low on my worst enemy. (<em>Fortunately, I don\u2019t have any enemies!\u2014but if I did, this would still be off-limits.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">After inhaling what felt like a quarter of our kitchen pantry, I crawled back into bed, still trembling, still scared, still trying to feel safe inside my body again. And even though this was far from my first severe low, every single one feels just as deathly frightening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-background-color has-background has-large-font-size\"><strong>And you wanna know the wild part about all of this?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-2-min.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1765 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/400;width:328px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-2-min.png 400w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-2-min-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-2-min-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-2-min-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-2-min-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/altruismprism.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nighttime-low-2-min-96x96.png 96w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The mindblowing reality of how we\u2019re expected to wake up a few hours later and go on with our day as if we didn\u2019t just <strong>LITERALLY<\/strong> nearly die in our sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Like&#8230;<em> Nothing to see here. Totally fine!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Then, when you share an experience like this with someone close to you\u2014<em>a roommate, a partner<\/em>\u2014it can go one of two ways: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Either they don\u2019t show much concern (and to be fair, it probably <em>does<\/em> start to sound like the boy who cried wolf; <em>you\u2019re still alive after all!<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Or, if you\u2019re in a long-distance relationship (<em>like myself<\/em>) and communicating via text, you may get hit with something like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>\u201cYou need to be better.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Umm\u2026 Ouch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">That felt like a sucker punch straight to the gut. I could physically feel my heart walls slam up in defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">To an already overactivated nervous system, hearing <em>\u201cyou have to be better\u201d<\/em>\u2014followed by yet another, <em>\u201cyou need to be better about that\u201d<\/em>\u2014was deeply triggering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It poked directly at my core wound: <strong>The lifelong belief that I\u2019m never doing enough, never good enough, always needing to perform better to be worthy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">So that sting went deep, of course I took it personally!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But I also know my boyfriend, and I know his heart. He would never intentionally try to shame or hurt me.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">After I took a moment to regulate and communicate what I actually needed\u2014<em>comfort, not blame for a disease I have little to no control over<\/em>\u2014he quickly apologized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He shared that his response came from a place of fear and helplessness, and wishing he were here to make sure I was okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And that context mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-background-color has-background has-large-font-size\">If you or someone you love lives with type 1 diabetes, I want you to understand this:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Diabetes is not a skill you master.<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong> It is a condition you live with.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"is-style-wide wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There is no level of \u201cbetter\u201d that eliminates risk. No version of you that performs perfectly enough to prevent every low. And no moral hierarchy of blood sugars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">You are not bad at diabetes.<br><strong>You are a human living in a body with a broken pancreas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My hope in sharing this is that someone feels less alone\u2014or that someone reading this gains a deeper understanding of what life with type 1 diabetes can actually be like. It can be incredibly isolating to live with a condition that most people don\u2019t fully understand, especially when the danger isn\u2019t always visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If you\u2019ve ever felt alone in your diagnosis, or if you know someone who might benefit from one-on-one support, I invite you to reach out. I\u2019m here to listen, support, comfort, and help guide the mind and body back to stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Sometimes the most powerful medicine is being witnessed by someone who truly understands the daily mental, emotional, and physical weight of this chronic condition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>You don\u2019t have to carry this alone.<\/strong>\u271e\u2661<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/17\/2025 Last night, I woke up at 4:00 a.m. completely disoriented\u2014shaking, sweating, trembling, my vision blurry and blotchy, barely able to see. My Dexcom was screaming. I grabbed my phone and saw my blood sugar was 40, with the arrow still pointing downward. I\u2019ve lived with type 1 diabetes for over 20 years. 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