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I can't believe the difference today just by having a smaller portion of porridge! 9.3 bg on waking followed by 8.8 after I'd taken a whole Gliclazide, then 7.5 after breakfast followed by 4.1 before lunch (which was a salad with a boiled egg and a bit of cottage cheese and a banana) then 5.2...

Finally I think things are starting to sink in and realise that it's not the tablets that are making me ill but what I eat when I take them. The variation in breakfast alone has now given me a reading of 7.5 two hours after breakfast whereas normally I'd be looking at 10-16 with a ketone...

Thank you so much for all your comments which I am taking on board. I did take a quarter of a Glic before bed last night and woke up with a 9.3 reading which was better than the last test which was 11.4 - usually I wake up with a reading that is higher than my last test, but this time it was...

Darn it, that's bad news that it could be the porridge that's causing problems. It's the only meal of the day I like. :( I do eat meat but I've really lost my appetite lately - maybe it's just a mental block thing cos of not knowing what to eat. When I say I had a bag of french fries I meant...

Hi xyzzy and thank you for replying, This is an example of what happened yesterday: Before breakfast = 9.1 After breakfast (porridge) with 2 metformin and 1/2 Gliclazide = 13.7 Before lunch = 10.6 After lunch (plate of veg only - sprouts, brocolli, cauli, asparagus with some mint sauce and a...

Hello :wave: I am having a great deal of trouble trying to get my blood glucose to stabilise. Gliclazide seems to make me feel very ill but my doctor wants me to take it. She's recently given me a bg monitoring thingy which I've found very useful. With 2 metformin twice a day my readings...

I can't deny I feel down about the diagnosis but it's the symptoms - the weakness, the tiredness, the feeling cold - that is making me feel miserable. I did have this before the diagnosis but not nearly so bad. The medication seems to be exaggerating what I had before. When the weakness creeps...

Thank you ever so much for all the help and advice on this thread, much appreciated. I've got plenty of stuff to read. I still very ill and I wonder if it's because I'm taking my medication at the wrong time of day? I take 1 Gliclazide and 2 Metformin in the morning which makes me feel pretty...

Thank you for your reply. I haven't been given much in the way of diet advice and have been looking for info on the internet, hence having found this forum. A couple of months ago I lost my appetite completely and found it very difficult to find things to eat so I took to eating toffees - I...

Hello :wave: I was diagnosed T2 two weeks ago - blood glucose was 24 (whatever that means) and was told it should be 7 or under. I was prescribed Gliclazide and Metformin - 1 Gliclazide in the morning with 2 Metformin twice a day. I didn't know anything was wrong really, other than having...