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Thanks for your replies. I had a fairly low carb breakfast this morning, 2 slices Burgen Soya and Linseed bread with deli egg mayonnaise and a cup of tea (no sugar) at 8.00am. Took reading at 12pm and BG was 3.6.

I was prescribed 80mg Gliclazide by the diabetes nurse and immediately started to see lower blood sugar readings, a few days later saw my GP and mentioned that I'd had one hypo so he changed me to 30mg Gliclazide slow release. However, blood sugar readings have been much higher on this. I'm due...

Thank you trying these now.

8.1 for me. Ate 2 sugar free Gullon wafers at 9pm last night and took bloods 1st thing. Usually have a cup of tea and then walk dogs before taking bloods and I'm in around 7.9. Guess this needs some work.

I've managed to link it to my Fitbit so going to try and earn some extra calories. I usually manage 10,000 steps a day walking the dogs so hope to get a bit of kudos for that.

Just completed my first diary on MFP. Stunned to see I've consumed 225g of carbs today, this is with me cutting well down on my usual carb intake. I have a long way to go to get to grips with low carb eating. Was in Tesco and I'm sure the pastries were waving at me.

Thank you for this, very helpful. I have some visual disorganise, blurred vision mainly so im guessing it's the reduced blood sugar. Hopefully this will resolve itself.

Diabetes nurse put me on 80mg Gliclazide last Friday. Blood sugar dropped like a stone and I had a hypo on first day. Went to see GP yesterday for something else (been feeling dizzy and headachy turns out I have labyrinthitis just to add to my week of woes) mentioned the hypo and he's switched...

Hi everyone, I had gestational diabetes in my second pregnancy and 15 years later was dagnosed Type 2 and prescribed metformin. Not much happened over the next 5 years until we moved out of London and away from a very busy GP practice to Buckinghamshire where the GP and diabetic nurse seemed to...