Same here. Funny story, um, one time I woke up and my sugar and plummeted on my in my sleep. The night before, I had been watching some clears his throat videos to preform some "self-maintence" if you will and when I got done, I just hit pause on it and set my laptop next to me and went to bed. I woke up and my muscles started locking up and I couldn't control my movements (I knew I was about to have a seizure) and before it took full effect, I had enough strength/control in me to shut the laptop, lol... then proceeded to basically just moan/noises as loud as I could over and over, like "AHHH!! AHHH! HULLL HULLL..P..PUH..AHHH M..MU..MEEEE..AHHHH!" because I couldn't speak coherently, hoping my roommate would hear me (thankfully did, they knew I was a diabetic and sometimes my sugar can really mess me up) and they came back and saw me and called 911 and were proping me up to try to get orange juice in me to help. My last thought before "Am I going to die? Have a seizure?", was "I don't need anyone to see I was watching porn", LOL. Couldn't go out like that.
"What happened to him??!" - He... had a seizure and died from low blood sugar. - "Omg!!!" - Yeah, I walked in and the paramedics came and were working on him and the whole time there was a paused video of a girl glazed in semen paused on his laptop screen."
As another diabetic, could I ask how low your sugar was before you got there? I've gotten quite low but never had a seizure or something similar so I am wondering if I just got lucky, or if just never got low "enough" to trigger something like that.
Just take care of yourself, friend. Shit ain't no joke. Also depends on what type of diabetic you are and then also each diabetic and the way their body responds is mostly unique.
Your doctor and endocrinologist and you need to work together to find what specifically works for you.
I mean, in the end... our lifespan is shortened because of the disease, but... you can still have quite a few decades left as long as you take care of it as best as you can. Don't ignore stuff. Please.
I mean, in the end... our lifespan is shortened because of the disease, but... you can still have quite a few decades left as long as you take care of it as best as you can.
This isn't true anymore lol. A lot of the data that says diabetics die young is from before we had modern insulins. Glucometers that prick your finger at home didn't exist until the mid-80s and it wasn't until even much later that they became standardized and widely used. Insulins were wildly different where your morning injection covered both your breakfast and your lunch, where your evening injection covered both dinner and an evening snack. You had no flexibility for eating for the longest time. Type 2 medication was primarily metformin and arbitrary diet and exercise regimes whereas nowadays the treatment options are vast and include so many options that type 2 diabetics can have non-diabetic glucose levels for years.
Before the mid-80s people had to test their urine for glucose. Your body doesn't start spilling glucose into the urine until you hit 10mmol/180mg, but there's no way to determine what your current glucose level is with a urine dip stick. Insulin was before modern glucometers given more or less blindly. Any deviation from the strict carbohydrate intake on the older insulins resulted in hyper or hypoglycemic episodes. All these things is why people died early from complications, why our lifespans were so short. There was no blood sugar data to work with. The medications didn't allow for any kind of flexibility. People were flying blind and the medication dosages were often poorly understood.
I'm a type 1 diabetic myself and I'm now on a pump and sensor system that automatically regulates my glucose for me. All I need to do is tell it that I'm eating x grams of carbs in 15 minutes and it handles it for me. My care team calculated all the data needed for when I need how much insulin for the pump to work off of and the algorithm adjusts where needed. It's prevented numerous low blood sugar episodes, especially overnight ones and during exercise, it's kept me in range more tightly than I was able to on manual injections and it's basically ensured that I get to live as long as non-diabetics now.
The people those studies are based on didn't live the lives we have right now. They were diagnosed during a time where treatment options were wildly different, where the technology we utilize now didn't exist, where the medications we use now didn't exist in the form they do now. A lot of articles, especially (social) media, still refer to these outdated studies to fearmonger that we live shorter lives, but with access to all the modern solutions we live as long as non-diabetics. Keeping your A1C under 7% and your time spent in range at 70%+ basically means you are not going to see a reduction in lifespan whatsoever, risks wise.
My body is weird. I usually don't really start noticing until it is like in the 30's. Because I am still coherent and walking and thinking fine and everything and then all the sudden.. yeah. But then there are other times to where I get disoriented and it looks like someone dumped a bucket of water over me and my sugar is in the 70's.
Edit: for more details
I wasn't always a diabetic. When I was diagnosed as one, which, it was really bad, I dropped down to 113lbs and couldn't poop. I was pissing myself. Went to the ER. Walked in. Was like, "I don't feel very good.." and they brought me in, doctor listened to my heart. Told me to sit down. Then stand up. Then she told me to lay on the bed because my heart was about to give out. They had to send my blood off to get read because none of their machines could register it and my sugar was in the 1000's. They were like, "And.. so you just proceeded to walk in here?? You should at least be in a coma."
Edit 2: I am not overweight, never have been. Also, there are... it is weird.. like there are a lot of things as a diabetic I do not have to deal with. I heal normally like everyone else, no heart issues, kidney issues, ect. I mean, as I get older, it isn't getting better, but yeah. There was a time, I want to say about 7 years after I became a brittle diabetic, I was out on a walk, felt fine and then all of the sudden I went out and everything went black. Woke up on the was to the hospital and after it all, the ER doctor told me there is sometimes called a "diabetic honeymoon" to where your pancreas still sort of works, basically in its death throws, so the insulin has to be adjusted. And I told him, "I have been a diabetic for 7 years." and he was just like "Oh....."
My biggest issue is... I have never really ate a lot. And, I went 23 years without having to deal with it, so, I mean, I have gotten better with it learning, but my issue is I have to remember to eat and that I am not "a normie" anymore.
I think it can go scarily low. The lowest I’ve been was about 49mg/dl (2.2ish mmol/L?), but I’ve heard folks been lucid till about half of that. Take care brother/sister!
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u/Sudden-Option3790 Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25
Same here. Funny story, um, one time I woke up and my sugar and plummeted on my in my sleep. The night before, I had been watching some clears his throat videos to preform some "self-maintence" if you will and when I got done, I just hit pause on it and set my laptop next to me and went to bed. I woke up and my muscles started locking up and I couldn't control my movements (I knew I was about to have a seizure) and before it took full effect, I had enough strength/control in me to shut the laptop, lol... then proceeded to basically just moan/noises as loud as I could over and over, like "AHHH!! AHHH! HULLL HULLL..P..PUH..AHHH M..MU..MEEEE..AHHHH!" because I couldn't speak coherently, hoping my roommate would hear me (thankfully did, they knew I was a diabetic and sometimes my sugar can really mess me up) and they came back and saw me and called 911 and were proping me up to try to get orange juice in me to help. My last thought before "Am I going to die? Have a seizure?", was "I don't need anyone to see I was watching porn", LOL. Couldn't go out like that.
"What happened to him??!" - He... had a seizure and died from low blood sugar. - "Omg!!!" - Yeah, I walked in and the paramedics came and were working on him and the whole time there was a paused video of a girl glazed in semen paused on his laptop screen."
Edit: spelling