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Sloan973

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I am newly diagnosed (April2012), and thanks to lots of reading, low carb dieting, exercise and met morphine 3x500 per day, believed I had this under control. Most morning fasting readings are between 5 and 6. Same before meals and rarely above 7.5 after two hours. This evening I tested before at 5 dead and ate some BBQ spare ribs in sauce, tested 2 hours later and got a spike of 9.9. this in itself was not surprising so I went on a brisk walk for half an hour and tested again. They went down to 3.4! I have never been below 4.9 previously, even after exercise. What's going on, and could I have had my first hypo?
Eddie
 
Sloan973 said:
Hi
I am newly diagnosed (April2012), and thanks to lots of reading, low carb dieting, exercise and met morphine 3x500 per day, believed I had this under control. Most morning fasting readings are between 5 and 6. Same before meals and rarely above 7.5 after two hours. This evening I tested before at 5 dead and ate some BBQ spare ribs in sauce, tested 2 hours later and got a spike of 9.9. this in itself was not surprising so I went on a brisk walk for half an hour and tested again. They went down to 3.4! I have never been below 4.9 previously, even after exercise. What's going on, and could I have had my first hypo?
Eddie
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Did you feel bad? Are you on insulin? If just metformin and diet maybe not hypo. I am not the best person but I am sure this is ok of not on insulin and you did not feel bad.
 
I am not on insulin and there were no symptoms. Thanks for the reply. I feel fine now, going to test again soon after tube 1 hour mark
 
Sloan973 said:
I am not on insulin and there were no symptoms. Thanks for the reply. I feel fine now, going to test again soon after tube 1 hour mark
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Sounds like it could have either been a dodgy strip, or when you went on your walk you pushed your metabolism up and emptied your stores of glycogen. As you had no symptoms, I suggest a dodgy strip (we all have 'em now and then). The high reading will have been down to the BBQ sauce, if you are brave (or daft) enough to have it again do the brisk 30 minute after meal walk then test again, just to see if it was a dodgy strip. Hypo's in diabetics just on Metformin and diet are as common as non diabetics, in other words really quite rare. Metformin won't cause or be the cause of a hypo. Keep and eye on you BG's and see if you go that low again.
 
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