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False? Hypo, what to do?

Ruth B

Ruth B

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Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
As mentioned in my intro to myself I have only recently started self testing after I noticed I was going woosy, shaky, having problems concentrating and slightly irrational and irritable. My metformin has recently been doubled to 2 tablets twice a day and I had thought I was going hypo.

However yesterday I started feeling rough just as I was getting tea ready and did my pre food test which was 5.5, so I am thinking it is more of a false hypo than a real one. I haven't been self testing long enough to really know what my normal readings are yet.

My question is what to do when I start to feel like this, am I better to try and sit it out and hope it settles down or to eat something to raise the sugar levels which make the symptoms go away. My work isn't dangerous, just office work but trying to type while shaking is interesting and I am finding concentrating hard in last hour or two before lunch, but I am trying to cut out snacking. As I work in an office attached to a factory I don't really want to bring my meter to work unless I really have to, it isn't the cleanest of environments.
 
Hi, if it is a false hypo, which it sounds like it is, then don't do anything, sit it out, if you compensate your taking food in to compensate for the medication and or new lifestyle from doing what they should be, sorry if that makes no sense..... sit it out, you will soon stop having the symptoms once your body recognises that your sugars are going to be normal wether it likes it or not


Edit: just my opinion, I'm not medical
 
5.5 is a great reading so no action required on that part. As Andy mentioned, best to sit it out. Your body needs to become accustomed to "normal" BG levels again if you've been running high for a while.
 
That was what I was thinking, getting the meter was the best decision I have made, nothing beats actual figures at specific times. All my nurse had suggested was upping the metformin and coming back in 3 months to see if it had any effect on the average reading.
 
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