BG readings rising

Why are you eating food like that? Far too high in carbs @fionamarie and metformin is nothing more than a bandaid, never a solution. Diet is

fionamarie said:

I was diagnosed in 2014 with type 2. Recently I have seen my BG readings rising. This morning i woke up to 15.0 and after breakfast (2 Shredded wheat and a cup of tea) my BG is now 22.0! Could my medication need altering? I am currently on 2000mg SR metformin.

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Hello FionaMarie, welcome to the Forum if this is your first post. (Well welcome anyway!) You seem to be taking an awful lot of medicines. Do you have other health problems besides diabetes? Quinine makes me think of malaria!

What kind of diet have you been eating up to now? Personally I am a fan of Metformin, but I think as low carb diet alongside it is indispensable.

Above all, I would check immediately which of the drugs you are taking are known to raise bg.
http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/drugs-that-can-affect-blood-glucose-levels/
When you have identified the ones that do, you could discuss with your doctor whether there are alternatives not know to raise bg, or whether you can do without any of them. For a start, Atorvastatin is on the list of drugs that can affect glucose levels. Depending on your other health problems, you might be better off not taking a statin.

With the utmost of respect @fionamarie the responses here would guide you on a far better path if you offer the any and all of the questions you have and get some decent answers. Your numbers are too high and it's not something to be taken lightly.

Hello,
You say that you have seen your blood glucose readings rising recently? Have they been in the acceptable range since you were diagnosed? NICE recommends 4 to 7mm before meals and under 8.5 2 hours post meal. I think most of us like to be lower than that, I find that 5.5 before meals and 7.7 post meal is achievable. Carbohydrate tolerance varies a lot between individuals, which is why this site recommends "eating to your meter". If you have been doing that successfully even with breakfast cereal then something has happened to push your numbers up so high, and it might be worth checking in with your doctor before you make any dietary changes.

Hi,

I would expect to see that for myself if I had wheatabix or Shredded wheat as it is mostly simple carbohydrate and will turn to sugar. I learned the hard way that it's not a great food for a type 2. I now have coffee, geek yogurt, flax and chia seeds with a few blueberries and it keeps my levels stable

There is a conflicting information between the formal medical advice given and the experiences of people here, let alone what you can find on google.

My simple view is to not eat white processed foods, wheat, rice, spuds are few and far between and head towards more veg, more salad, beans pulses, good quality meat and fats, not processed fats but things like avocado. All of these things have lower simple carbohydrate/sugar and a lower rate of digestion and a lower rate of energy release, this helps to manage your bg readings.

Would keeping a food diary in something like myfitnesspal for a few weeks be an option to show you what the breakdown of your diet is and then you could correlate this against spikes, you can eliminate pesky foods?

Ross