Hi. I take 500mg metformin in the morning and at night. I haven't been doing much testing lately. Got told off by my GP for testing too often. However I took a pre dinner test yesterday as I felt a bit odd. It was 9.8. 2 hours post meal, I felt really drowsy and assumed bs had gone up further, so took a test and it was only 3.7
I didn't eat any starchy carb with that meal. Just broccoli and salmon as bs was high pre-meal. Everywhere I read it says you don't get hypos on metformin, and yet my bs dropped low enough that I had symptoms of being too low. I didn't want to go to bed with it that low so drank ½ glass of juice and got it up to 6.5 before going to bed. I'm wondering if I should still have had starchy card with that dinner meal even though bs was high pre meal? Any tips or advice? Recently diagnosed type 2 in June.
I didn't eat any starchy carb with that meal. Just broccoli and salmon as bs was high pre-meal. Everywhere I read it says you don't get hypos on metformin, and yet my bs dropped low enough that I had symptoms of being too low. I didn't want to go to bed with it that low so drank ½ glass of juice and got it up to 6.5 before going to bed. I'm wondering if I should still have had starchy card with that dinner meal even though bs was high pre meal? Any tips or advice? Recently diagnosed type 2 in June.