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- Type of diabetes
- MODY
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes back in 1997, unfortunately it never went away. Stopped eating any sugar and HBa1C’s have sometimes come back in the diabetic range sometimes not. Not had an HBa1C for a few years as have been doing low carb.
Had test in May 2021 and a1c 128, blood test was 18,nurse panicked and wanted to call an ambulance, told her I felt fine.
Was put on 80mg gliclazide for one week, then told to increase to 160mg the week after & 240mg the week after that.
One tablet reduced my blood sugar from 18 to 6 in 3 hours. Saw a DSN who told me to not increase it and to split it between morning & night & to keep a food diary & email it to get every week, keep being told something isn’t right as blood sugar too low for medication & what I’m eating . Saw doctor at local hospital (go with special interest in diabetes). He doesn’t think it’s actually type 2 but doesn’t know what it is. Explained as something happens and blood sugar goes up, gliclazide gives pancreas a kick and it goes back to normal, told me to eat low carb.
Minutes later dietitian told me to eat the eatwell plate and if blood sugar went up I needed more medication.
Gliclazide stopped beginning of June as blood sugars too low & put on 500mg metformin, 5 weeks later blood sugar started rising again again so put back on 40mg metformin & given a libre, have to fill in food diary on this if everything I eat, by August and many hypos later was taken off gliclazide again. 2 weeks later back on 20mg gliclazide & 2 metformin and having to have some starchy carbs at each meal or I still hypo, just had a1c of 34. Anybody have any idea what’s going on I’m 5ft 4, weigh 48kg and eat about 2,500 calories a day, don’t sleep, never hungry have dizzy spells most days, gad test negative, c-peptide test showed I was making a lot of insulin. DSN has spoken to consultants and both said to put me on insulin
Had test in May 2021 and a1c 128, blood test was 18,nurse panicked and wanted to call an ambulance, told her I felt fine.
Was put on 80mg gliclazide for one week, then told to increase to 160mg the week after & 240mg the week after that.
One tablet reduced my blood sugar from 18 to 6 in 3 hours. Saw a DSN who told me to not increase it and to split it between morning & night & to keep a food diary & email it to get every week, keep being told something isn’t right as blood sugar too low for medication & what I’m eating . Saw doctor at local hospital (go with special interest in diabetes). He doesn’t think it’s actually type 2 but doesn’t know what it is. Explained as something happens and blood sugar goes up, gliclazide gives pancreas a kick and it goes back to normal, told me to eat low carb.
Minutes later dietitian told me to eat the eatwell plate and if blood sugar went up I needed more medication.
Gliclazide stopped beginning of June as blood sugars too low & put on 500mg metformin, 5 weeks later blood sugar started rising again again so put back on 40mg metformin & given a libre, have to fill in food diary on this if everything I eat, by August and many hypos later was taken off gliclazide again. 2 weeks later back on 20mg gliclazide & 2 metformin and having to have some starchy carbs at each meal or I still hypo, just had a1c of 34. Anybody have any idea what’s going on I’m 5ft 4, weigh 48kg and eat about 2,500 calories a day, don’t sleep, never hungry have dizzy spells most days, gad test negative, c-peptide test showed I was making a lot of insulin. DSN has spoken to consultants and both said to put me on insulin