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<blockquote data-quote="NicoleC1971" data-source="post: 2445315" data-attributes="member: 365308"><p>Sounds as if your pancreas is working well in that it reacts quickly to what you eat which is what you want. Those who have elevated glucose spikes after a meal have high levels of insulin too and eventually this leads to the diagnosis.</p><p>So I am also wondering it the diagnosis was not right and that you are taking metformin you don't need. </p><p>If you can afford it how about getting a flash monitoring device such as FreeStyleLibre or Dexcom then you can see how 'in range' you are and show results to your team with a view to reducing the meds or dropping them?</p><p>The other factor is that symptoms of a mild hypo are very very similar to anxiety. I can sleep through a 3.5 but feel anxious and jittery going to a 4.0 especially if the rate of descent if rapid. The monitoring device might give ;you some useful information on that aspect of it and you may find that eating actually triggers a further insulin surge such that you are in a hypo - recover- hypo loop and that your initial diagnosis is off.</p><p>Btw I would not suggest doing this monitoring for any longer than the 10 days or 2 weeks that a sensor lasts because it may trigger further anxiety to be traded against the gain of useful health information.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NicoleC1971, post: 2445315, member: 365308"] Sounds as if your pancreas is working well in that it reacts quickly to what you eat which is what you want. Those who have elevated glucose spikes after a meal have high levels of insulin too and eventually this leads to the diagnosis. So I am also wondering it the diagnosis was not right and that you are taking metformin you don't need. If you can afford it how about getting a flash monitoring device such as FreeStyleLibre or Dexcom then you can see how 'in range' you are and show results to your team with a view to reducing the meds or dropping them? The other factor is that symptoms of a mild hypo are very very similar to anxiety. I can sleep through a 3.5 but feel anxious and jittery going to a 4.0 especially if the rate of descent if rapid. The monitoring device might give ;you some useful information on that aspect of it and you may find that eating actually triggers a further insulin surge such that you are in a hypo - recover- hypo loop and that your initial diagnosis is off. Btw I would not suggest doing this monitoring for any longer than the 10 days or 2 weeks that a sensor lasts because it may trigger further anxiety to be traded against the gain of useful health information. [/QUOTE]
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