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BG readings and Hypo's, 2 hours after breakfast

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Marcus777

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My 2 hours after breakfast BG readings, using the last 5 days as an example, ares 8.6, 7.4, 5.7, 4.6, 5.5. I'm on one low dosage Gliclazide a day (40g). Breakfast is 1 Weetabix with milk, blueberries and pomagranite seeds, half glass tomato juice, two small slices of brown batch seeded toast with a scraping of butter and marmalade, and a cup of tea.

My problem is that when my I have the lower readings, say between 4.5 and 5.5,it only takes doing something a little strenous,like going for a walk or gardening for example, to push me into hypo territory. I am normal weight for my height

I'm now wondering whether I should be taking Gliclazide at all. I was put on it because the low dosage Metformin tablet (which I was given in Dec/Jan) brought on two bad side effects (hives and facial swelling) which I've never seen mentioned on any of the forum posts (except for the only other post I've made). The Diabetic Nurse, said I must be about the one in 360 people who have this problem. I would dearly like to come off the Gliclazide tablet, but I worry that if I do so, then the clinc mightn't let me have my next HBAiC test.
 
I tried Metformin and it just made me feel sick all day. I was on Gliclazide for a while and it was working, right up until my pancreas suddenly packed in and I had to start on insulin. However, I'm normal weight for height and I know that, having taken insulin, if my BS is 4.5-5, if I have any unexpected exercise (like walking into town to do some shopping), I have to have a snack first or I'll have a hypo. With BS figures like that, and a breakfast like that, it sounds like you're *almost* controlling your BS with diet, and if you could bring the higher figures down, you wouldn't need the gliclazide. Maybe some carb counting, to see what it is that makes your BS 8.6 (OK in itself, but probably worryingly high if you weren't taking gliclazide) and you might well be able to get sensible figures without drugs. I don't see why the clinic should deny you a HBAiC test - if you explain that you're eating well, and exercise is actually giving you hypos because the gliclazide is too much, they ought to be *pleased*! :-) My dad managed to control his BS through diet alone from the age of 56 to when he died at the age of 85.
 
Thanks for your helpful post. I think that there is a feeling amongst the profession that people with Diabetes, who say that they want to manage their diabetes by diet alone can't be trusted to stick to it over a long term, and therefore the only way a clinic can be sure that you are being treated is by prescribing tablets.
 
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