Hi guys,
I am a newbee and this is my first post.
I was diagnosed T2 in July a few weeks after a period of great thirst and urination and almost a hypo one night when i was very ill and after eating 2 shortcakes felt fine and went back to sleep, the next day i realised I may be a diabetic and cut out all sugar, and reduced my fat and carb intake within 2 weeks I had lost a stone and saw my Doc when I got back to France, my tests were as follows.
16 July fasting 15.65mmol/L Ha1c 77mmoL/l 9.2%
18 July fasting 14.10mmol/L.
At this point I was given 3x500mg metformin.
30 July fasting 8.38mmol/L
20 Aug fasting 7.33mmol/L
20 Sept fasting 5.99mmol/L
Early Sept I bought a Meter, tested every meal etc. the usual eating to the meter, and have consistently kept my fasting readings down to mid 5s to low 6s.
I have also reduced calorie intake to about 1200 to 1300 and taken up walking and light weight training and have lost a total of 3 stone.
About a week ago I went to the Docs with a severe case of the metformin quick step, at first the met was ok a few rumbles down below but nothing major and the suddenly it was uncontrolable, so the Doc changed my meds to metformin embonate 700mg Stagid as opposed to met chlorhydrate. Has anyone heard of this before? there seems to be very little on the web.
That's a bit of history that brings me to the point of this post, today I felt like i had low glucose, dizzy blurred vision and hunger so tested at 5.3 before lunch so I ate 3 eggs on 2 toast glucose rose to 6 so then ate some sweets 2 bannanas an orange and 2 cereal bars and it then went to 6.9 1 hour on and quickly fell to 5.7 another hour later an then half an hour later back down to 5.3 and feeling dizzy etc. again, then ate 2 crepes with nuttella and it's gone up to 5.9.
Could the met cause this problem? or is it just one of those days?
I am a newbee and this is my first post.
I was diagnosed T2 in July a few weeks after a period of great thirst and urination and almost a hypo one night when i was very ill and after eating 2 shortcakes felt fine and went back to sleep, the next day i realised I may be a diabetic and cut out all sugar, and reduced my fat and carb intake within 2 weeks I had lost a stone and saw my Doc when I got back to France, my tests were as follows.
16 July fasting 15.65mmol/L Ha1c 77mmoL/l 9.2%
18 July fasting 14.10mmol/L.
At this point I was given 3x500mg metformin.
30 July fasting 8.38mmol/L
20 Aug fasting 7.33mmol/L
20 Sept fasting 5.99mmol/L
Early Sept I bought a Meter, tested every meal etc. the usual eating to the meter, and have consistently kept my fasting readings down to mid 5s to low 6s.
I have also reduced calorie intake to about 1200 to 1300 and taken up walking and light weight training and have lost a total of 3 stone.
About a week ago I went to the Docs with a severe case of the metformin quick step, at first the met was ok a few rumbles down below but nothing major and the suddenly it was uncontrolable, so the Doc changed my meds to metformin embonate 700mg Stagid as opposed to met chlorhydrate. Has anyone heard of this before? there seems to be very little on the web.
That's a bit of history that brings me to the point of this post, today I felt like i had low glucose, dizzy blurred vision and hunger so tested at 5.3 before lunch so I ate 3 eggs on 2 toast glucose rose to 6 so then ate some sweets 2 bannanas an orange and 2 cereal bars and it then went to 6.9 1 hour on and quickly fell to 5.7 another hour later an then half an hour later back down to 5.3 and feeling dizzy etc. again, then ate 2 crepes with nuttella and it's gone up to 5.9.
Could the met cause this problem? or is it just one of those days?
..The symptoms you describe do sound similar to a hypo . Hypos are when blood glucose is Below 4 though , not above , even though you may feel hypo symptoms. When I was newly diagnosed { many years ago now) I experienced " false hypos" Basically your body is used to having much higher glucose levels so when levels start to become lower, closer to "normal" levels you can feel hypo although technically your'e not. Once your body adapts to more normal levels you will stop feeling " hypo" Id look on this positively .. it shows that you are managing your levels well .. even though it doesn't feel great when you feel "low"
