Not everybody's diabetes is the same, and it can be a bitch to control. For some people they never have an issue, and for others no proper insulin regimen seems to work. You can't generalise! Remember, other factors such as exercise and food intake can affect it.

I carry glucose tablets and honey around. Doesn't mean I've never almost passed out from low blood sugars. Even if you have stuff, you don't always feel the low until it's too late to do anything. And to the OP, I'm pretty sure that's discrimination. Take it to court.

Sometimes blood sugar problems like that can come on without any warning, as well. I saw OP has a lawsuit s/he needs to file.

As an add-on to #55's comment, I want to include my personal experience with severe type 1 Diabetes. I have (many times) randomly blacked out, gone unconscious, and I've had hundreds of seizures WITHOUT WARNING. One time, I was walking across my driveway, fell backwards, and started seizing...right in front of my house. Turns out my sugar dropped and I didn't know. I had no warning signs or symptoms. I check my sugar 6 times a day or more, so don't say I deserve it. OP doesn't/didn't deserve it either. Sometimes things just happen like this with chronic diseases. It's so scary. Some of you people have no idea. Diabetes is different for everybody. OP, I'm sorry that happened to you. Keep your chin up and do what you can. :)

sometimes your sugar can bottom out very rapidly, and even if you did have said stuff for a hypoglycemia attack, if your sugar has dropped too low too fast, that would be the last thing on your mind... speaking from experience here...

Actually, my doctor told me that when a person goes into shock they'll wake up on their own after about 10 minutes. Or they die. :) But the OP got lucky. (s)he could've gotten serious brain damage or something.

Well I'm a medical student (read: not qualified yet), so I don't know if I count! Having a natural blood sugar level that is close to the lower bound of normal is not indicative of diabetes at all. Diabetes mellitus is characterised by either an inability to produce insulin (type I) or a desensitisation to insulin (type II). Basically, untreated diabetes have HIGH blood sugar levels (hyperglycaemia). This is because their lack of insulin or lack of response to insulin means that their body cannot promote the uptake of glucose molecules from the blood into hepatic, muscle and fat tissue, so there is lots of glucose circling around in the blood. If they inject themselves with insulin, uptake of glucose into other tissues is promoted. However if this is not controlled correctly (which is not an easy task), a hypoglycaemic episode may occur (low blood sugar levels). This can be due to a variety of reasons, such as overdosing, eating at the wrong time or exercising more than usual. Having hypoglycaemia is not indicative of diabetes, but rather of the therapy. Whilst there are other causes of hypoglycaemia, it has been found that “induced hypoglycaemia is the most common form of hypoglycaemia”, such as in people with diabetes. Other causes may be hepatic necrosis, renal disease, deficiencies in hormones other than insulin, starvation, alcohol-induced hypoglyceia, etc.

Diabetes doesn't just cause high blood sugar. It can also cause low blood sugar. That is why you check your blood sugar before you eat, so you know how much insulin you need. Diabetes destabilises your blood sugar level, either way. So one say you'll have 0,400 (wayy too much) and the other you might have 0,035 (way not enough).

#24 - Common misconception. The disease does not cause the hypoglycaemia, rather, it's the higher than normal levels of insulin in the body that cause hypoglycaemia. Type I Diabetes mellitus is an autoimmune disease that attacks the beta cells in the pancreas, meaning you can't make insulin. If the disease means that you can't make insulin, then the disease is not responsible for hypos. It's the management of the disease that causes the hypos. You inject insulin, but you have to tightly monitor its levels as it is easy to overdose. In a person with normal production of insulin, there are biochemical pathways to monitor and maintain the levels of insulin in the body at a normal level, and this can adapt to physiological changes. If the body relies on insulin from an external source (ie, injections), then it is hard for the person monitoring the injections to safely assess if the body has enough insulin at a given time. Therefore, diabetes itself doesn't cause low blood sugar. It's the (essential) treatment that does. You check your blood sugar before you eat because you are responsible for the external control of the insulin that you are pumping into your body.

#24. Diabetes doesn't cause lows. It's the fact that you have to figure out how much insulin you need to take, and the fact that it's very easy to screw that up that causes lows.

I've got low blood sugar and not diabetes although I am high risk because of my family so it's possible op doesn't have diabetes and just has a sugar problem.

I thought you were supposed to blame it on the a-a-a-alcohol, not diabeetus

Exactly. And whats with the 'a- a -a?' Stuttering much?

It's a song whyowhy25. Blame it on the goose!

no, put the blame on akon, he asked for it ! :P

Op might have eaten and it wasn't absorbed yet.

I was talking to my doctor about being worried about living alone and going into shock etc...and she said that most people actually wake up after about ten minutes. Something about the body having some sort of emergency sugar reserve. That said, the possibility of death is pretty big. OP got lucky.