Feeling low in the middle of the night

In the middle of the night, around 3 a.m., I felt like eating everything I could come up with. Biscuits of all sorts (didn't matter if they were stale or not), chocolate, candy,... I had these terrible cravings, due to my blood sugar being too low, meaning 32 mg/dl. It's supposed to be in the 80-126 mg/dl range. It woke me up - or must I say I couldn't sleep for no particular reason - and it left me with this strange sensation in my body, like a cold wind racing inside my torso, grabbing me by the throat. Getting up and going wasn't easy, feeling dizzy and shaky. I did manage to eat all the cookies on my night stand, before I stumbled downstairs to have more. They didn't even taste good, but they definitely made me feel better.

I know I should've stopped my insulin pump from delivering insulin, but I didn't. This time, I wanted to binge, needed those carbs badly to feel better. O well, I used to feel really bad about these binge sessions, but I don't any more. It doesn't happen that frequently. Mostly, nightly sugar lows are solved within 15 min, having some glucose tablets and putting my insulin pump on hold for half an hour. Don't know what triggered me this time, to go for the cookie carbs. But I sure know it made me feel better and I could go back to sleep feeling at ease. And that's important.

I woke up with a great 107 mg/dl. That surprised me after all those excess carbs. Checking the history of my pump this morning, I found out why. Little miss unconscious wasn't that unconscious after all: I did bolus for the extra carbs!