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sujane

I have never been tested for diabetes, the assumption was made with one fasting sugar test after I collapsed when feeling ill. They began metformin almost immediately, then added saxagliptin ... then increased the metformin.. and with each increase came an increase in my HbA1c... it doesn't make sense to me. I stopped taking my medication and the reading dropped nicely... told the GP and he told me off for "ignoring" my diabetes. So the GP sent me to a specialist at the hospital who further increased the metformin, and my HbA1c went higher still. He introduced gliclazide... and I suffered hypos after just two days on it !! so the dose was halved... and I have maintained a good HbA1c of 6.. but I have to be careful and eat regularly or I hypo.... interestingly I get hypo symptoms at a blood reading of 4.5 ... shouldn't happen, but it does... I have today read about the GAD test and the c peptide test.. I am going to insist on them, based on the fact if I leave off metformin etc, my neurologist wonders if the sugar spikes are a symptom of something else rather than me simply being diabetic... I am overweight, and that just keeps increasing the more medication I take.. Time for serious action I think !
Location
Barry - Barry Vale of Glamorgan
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Medication
Metformin, Saxaglyptin, Gliclazide, Atorvastatin
Exercise
minimal, due to other health issues.. but have an allotment which I try to give a bit of welly !!! :)
Likes
Allotment, baking and decorating cakes, crafts, Jesus
Dislikes
I'd like to say "people who judge others" but then I'd be one of those too.
Occupation
unemployed

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