I've been diagnosed with diabetes type 2 for around 3 months now, I also have anxiety (unfortunate combo)
when I was diagnosed I was told to take 3 pills of 500 grams metformin per day because my blood sugar was really high, thanks to diet and exercise, nowadays I take only 1, my blood sugar usually stays around 70-80 (mg/dl) , sometimes 65+ very rarely 90+, never had any problems with my blood sugar I didn't even had to check it that regularly because it was really constant, I thought this was great until 6 days ago, when I woke up in the middle of the night with sweat and a racing heartbeat, I thought it was just a panic attack again, it has happened before so I just took .50 mg of clonazepam, but I decided to check my blood sugar while waiting to find a whooping 55 (mg/dl) I thought it was a mistake so I did again, 57 this time, so i decided to eat some red apple slices with peanut butter and 15 minutes later my blood sugar was at around 60, so I decided to eat more, with a slice of whole grain bread this time, 30 minutes later I was finally at 78 (mg/dl) and I went to sleep, wake up 5 hours later and took my blood sugar to find a 65 (mg/dl), at breakfast and my numbers looked normal for the rest of the day.
2 days later I had a similar experience, and I've been quite anxious since then, I've been trying to no avail to keep my blood sugar at more 80+, it doesn't matter what I eat my blood sugar will rise and will quickly fall again, the most ridiculous example of this the 4th of October where once again my blood sugar was really low at a 57 (mg/dl) this was in the middle of the day however and I had no symptoms I decided to eat a measly red apple and a protein bar to get a 182 (mg/dl) 15 minutes later (which is probably the highest I ever seen since my diagnosis) , but just 10 minutes later I was back at 80 (mg/dl)
Now this may sounds great but I am honestly in constant fear of getting hypoglycemia, I check my blood sugar before sleeping to find a 71, I feel the need to eat carbs but it usually just makes me feel worst at night or I can't sleep at all, doing exercise has also become worrisome, before I used to don't mind seeing a 65+ but nowadays it just makes me anxious.
as far as I can tell this has been always the case and I just never noticed until now
My glucose tolerance test (3 months ago) for example was 180 (mg/dl) at 1 hour but 2 hours later it was 88 (mg/dl)
Has anyone experience something similar? what could be causing this? could this by fault of the antidepressant medication? I started taking Escitalopram 7 days ago and never experienced anything like this before.
I've honestly never been more on edge in my life.