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LuckyCharms

(21,817 posts)
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 04:11 PM Dec 14

Jeez! The day is shot already!

This is why I'm half-crazy a lot of the time.

Type 1 diabetic who wears a Dexcom continuous glucose monitor. I disabled my "high glucose alarm" because I don't care if my glucose goes high when I am sleeping. But going too low, that's a big problem. I have my low glucose alarm set to go off it my glucose drops to 90, so that gives me time to eat something before it really crashes.

I was feeling good last night. Ready for a nice rest, and a productive day today. Glucose was at 220 before bed because I ate some delicious take out pizza yesterday. Told myself...ehhh...it will probably drop to normal while I sleep, but I'll shoot just a few units of insulin just in case it hangs too high overnight. So I did that.

I eat a pot gummy or two before bed. Not to get high, but to sleep. I fall asleep before I get stoned and sleep right through.

Shot some insulin, ate two gummies, got my two favorite heavy blankets over me, and crawled into my recliner to sleep (bad back....sleep in a recliner). This was around midnight.

3:00 AM. In dreamland. Sleeping hard. All very nice. Glucose drops to 90 after a little less than 3 hours of sleep. Alarms on both my phone and my Dexcom receiver are screaming at me.

BEEEEPPPPPP BEEEEPPPPP BEEEEPPP BEEEEEEEPPPP.

Huh? Wha...wtf is this shit????

Oh fuck...it's Dexcom. Glucose is too low.

It wakes me up and I'm stoned as hell, and I REALLY didn't want to get up and eat. Frozen in the chair, stoned, no sleep, tired.

OK, there is something called "feet on the floor phenomenon" where if your body thinks you are waking up, your liver will dump glucose into your blood to try to wake you up.

I'll just put my feet on the floor and sit here and maybe my glucose will rise. No problem. So my feet are on the floor and I'm drifting back to sleep.

BEEEEPPPPPP BEEEEPPPPP BEEEEPPP BEEEEEEEPPPP.

Oh fuck off you fucking piece of shit! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

Drifting back to sleep again. Now my glucose is dropping to the urgent level, so the alarms change and start going bug fuck crazy.

BEEEEPPPPPP BEEEEPPPPP BEEEEPPP BEEEEEEEPPPP. EEEEEPPPP EEEEEEP EHHHHHH EHHHHHH!!!

FUCK YOU SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!

Now I'm thinking...I'm too stoned to walk downstairs to the kitchen.

BEEEEPPPPPP BEEEEPPPPP BEEEEPPP BEEEEEEEPPPP. EEEEEPPPP EEEEEEP EHHHHHH EHHHHHH!!!

Then I remembered...there's one piece of pizza left in the fridge!! Yes!!! That will hit the spot at 300AM. I'll have a 6 ounce can of soda with it!! yes!! Perfect!!!

Stumble downstairs in my underwear. Open the fridge.

Where the fuck is the slice of pizza? I know it's in here? Where is it?

I know it's here...you're not seeing it because you're too stoned. Keep looking.

Where is it?

I start tearing apart the whole fridge. I know it's in here...

Then I realized. "SOMEONE ELSE IN THIS HOUSE ATE THE GODDAMN PIZZA SLICE BEFORE BED".

Fuck.

So I ate a lemon yogurt, a can of soda, stumbled back upstairs. Now I'm wide awake posting on DU in the wee hours.

Went back to sleep, and today was unusual, because usually when this happens, I wake up a few hours later. But today? I slept until almost noon, and I'm still trying to wake up. I don't think I've slept this late since college days.

So now I'll probably be doing my workout and taking care of my chores tonight at 1000pm, because I still can't get my ass in gear.

And the thing is...this horseshit happens about 3 times a week, so I am perpetually sleep deprived. I've been a type 1 for several decades, and I still can't figure out these nighttime lows.

First world problems, I guess, but still...

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Jeez! The day is shot already! (Original Post) LuckyCharms Dec 14 OP
You trying to avoid True Dough Dec 14 #1
It was her. LuckyCharms Dec 14 #2
I hope she never polishes off True Dough Dec 14 #3
My mother had those and my father had to deal with it, occasionally using Glucagon injections surfered Dec 14 #4
Last Thursday I bought 3 different types of gummies with CBN for sleep. PufPuf23 Dec 14 #5
Maybe have a cooler or a minifridge near the recliner? Marthe48 Dec 14 #6
That's a good idea Marthe, LuckyCharms Dec 14 #7
Those mini fridges are cute Marthe48 Dec 14 #8
I would suggest getting a college dorm sized frig in your sleeping room Niagara Dec 14 #9
Oh boy, you're diabolical! LuckyCharms Dec 14 #10
I can be diabolical while protecting my food yummies Niagara Dec 14 #11
. LuckyCharms Dec 14 #12
lol Niagara Dec 14 #13
I was thinking... LuckyCharms Dec 14 #14
I don't have to hide food yummies anymore Niagara Dec 14 #15
Sleep well, Niagara. LuckyCharms Dec 14 #16

True Dough

(25,848 posts)
1. You trying to avoid
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 04:17 PM
Dec 14

blaming your wife for eating that last slice of pizza?

"SOMEONE ELSE IN THIS HOUSE ATE THE GODDAMN PIZZA SLICE BEFORE BED".

Or do you live communally with dozens of other Dead Heads?

True Dough

(25,848 posts)
3. I hope she never polishes off
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 04:38 PM
Dec 14

your stash of gummies. Then you might not be able to hold your tongue!

surfered

(11,579 posts)
4. My mother had those and my father had to deal with it, occasionally using Glucagon injections
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 04:49 PM
Dec 14

PufPuf23

(9,709 posts)
5. Last Thursday I bought 3 different types of gummies with CBN for sleep.
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 05:01 PM
Dec 14

Already had thc/cbn peanut buttercups to help with sleep. 10 mg thc, not sure of cbn content and unwilling to make a trip to refrigerator to read the package.

2 mg thc, 2 mg cbo, 10 mg cbn
10 mg thc, 5 mg cbn
10 mg thc indica specified, 5 mg cbn

The thc does make one high, so interested in the low thc with high cbn gummy.

Lived most of life on not much sleep, could channel racing mind. Now mind is mostly chaotic. Sleep is irregular.

Living a life of quiet desperation (too).

Marthe48

(22,734 posts)
6. Maybe have a cooler or a minifridge near the recliner?
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 08:27 PM
Dec 14

And keep some juice or soda, and some Little Debbie cakes handy?

My cousin was on steroids once, got a spike in her appetite. She thought there was a piece of steak left in the fridge, but it turned out her husband took it to work for his lunch. She wasn't happy. I bet you can relate!

Hope all is well now.





LuckyCharms

(21,817 posts)
7. That's a good idea Marthe,
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 08:40 PM
Dec 14

but in actuality, all I would really need is one or two of those non-refrigerated juice boxes that you stab with a straw, and maybe some packaged peanut butter crackers so i could get a little protein along with the carbs.

But I'd much rather make a big deal on DU about my pizza getting stolen, because sometimes I'm lacking material to post, so I like to whine and ramble on just so I have a story to tell.

You have no idea how bad I wanted that pizza though...

I would have been pissed if my steak got swiped too!

Marthe48

(22,734 posts)
8. Those mini fridges are cute
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 08:46 PM
Dec 14

My grandchild has one in their room.

My cousins act like a couple on The Newlyweds, even after 40 years. The discussion about the steak was entertaining. lol

Niagara

(11,530 posts)
9. I would suggest getting a college dorm sized frig in your sleeping room
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 08:48 PM
Dec 14

And put sodas, juices and whatever else you might crave later to help your glucose levels.



When there were teenagers in the house, I use to buy almond milk in the cartons. The teenagers wouldn't touch the almond milk.


Once I emptied the container, I would rinse it out and let it dry. I would cut out the back of the carton and stash food inside of that container that I didn't want the teenagers finding.

So imagine seeing this carton of almond milk in the frig, not knowing it's empty or has a colossal cut in the back of it while the carton is hiding food yummies inside of it!


I would hide cheese sticks, chocolate bars and put Oreos in sandwich baggies and hide them in that empty carton. I bet a slice of pizza would fit!




LuckyCharms

(21,817 posts)
10. Oh boy, you're diabolical!
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 09:29 PM
Dec 14

I love it!

Have you ever thought of working for the CIA?

Now I'm wondering if you cut like a rectangular of square hole in it, or if you just kind of cut a "flap" so the stuff would not fall out. Did they eventually find out that you hid food in there?

So many questions, Niagara, so many questions.

Niagara

(11,530 posts)
11. I can be diabolical while protecting my food yummies
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 09:44 PM
Dec 14


There are brief times where my brain works brilliantly and I can come up up with some terrific ideas. I wish I had come up with more of these ideas.


I cut a rectangle shape in the back of the carton, probably going 3/4 of the way up from the bottom. I didn't leave a door or a flap at all.


They never found out I had food yummies hidden in there. No one bothered it because it was an almond milk carton.


I have answers to your questions. lol.




Niagara

(11,530 posts)
13. lol
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 09:57 PM
Dec 14

I was laughing out loud while I was typing out and explaining my past diabolical plans for my hidden food storage from teenagers.





LuckyCharms

(21,817 posts)
14. I was thinking...
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 10:04 PM
Dec 14

that if you bought that self-healing mat off Amazon, along with the Exacto knives, you could cut holes in all kinds of things and hide whatever you want, wherever you want!!

Cut holes in the wall, cut holes furniture, cut a hole in a watermelon and hide stuff in there...the possibilities are dizzying!

Niagara

(11,530 posts)
15. I don't have to hide food yummies anymore
Sun Dec 14, 2025, 10:16 PM
Dec 14

But I was thinking that I could still practice cutting things and making secret hidey holes in case I'm ever admitted into a nursing home in the long distant future.


No one will ever find my stash of food yummies! lol


Alright, Lucky. I'm off to sleep to think about this self-healing mat!

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