Hi so I recently was diagnosed as having type 2, my first hba1c was 69, Dr put me on to metformin 3x a day, I've been careful what I'm eating and actually lost a stone, was in work on Friday (work in a gp surgery) when I started to feel a bit strange, felt hot but cold and was shaking, practice nurse checked my blood sugar and it was 4.1, gave me a glucose shot and started to feel better, although she said I shouldn't really get hypo as only on metformin, she advised me to stop this over weekend and speak to my gp on Monday, so yeah hi everyone nice to have found a great informative site.
Sounds to me like you could do perfectly well without metformin... Why on earth with that HbA1c, you've been put on three right from the get-go, is a mystery to me... Not to mention why you'd reduce and then build up again if you're hitting fours already. If you cut carbs you should be able to get back into the normal range fairly quickly, as it seems like you're already seeing normal numbers as it is. And yeah, that was a false hypo... Not an actual one, though they feel
exactly the same, just don't have the numbers to back them up. If you keep treating them with glucose, you'll never get used to having normal blood sugars, so... For a one-off it's fine, but try and ride them out from here on in if you think you can, then you'll be rid of them that much sooner. Just have some protein to eat and you'll perk up some, without spiking your blood sugars for hours afterwards.
You say you've been careful of what you're eating, and losing weight, and seeing a 4,1, can I assume you've cut carbs? Because if you are, good on you.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/the-nutritional-thingy.2330/ might help a little, but... Keep in mind your nurse may not know you can stop T2 in its tracks on diet alone. (Because if she does know, that would make the go-back-to-3-a-day even weirder).
You're doing an excellent job already. And get yourself a meter, you want to know what your blood sugars are doing.
Jo