Good morning.
I am new to this forum and would like to introduce myself to you.
My name is Andrew Dalling,
Type 2 diabetic
Living in North Devon
Taking metformin for five years and just been put on gliclazide and now suffering from night sweats every night.
Any help?
Andy
hi Andy and welcome to the forums.
I am a night sweater. It doesn't happen all the time. I obtained some interesting info by using a Libre CGM for a month - I have no idea how generalizable this is, and I could find very little in the literature about it. The received wisdom is that T2s do not ever go low enough to hypo.
However, my CGM readings showed a correlation between my BGs dipping into the low threes and night sweats, nightmares, panicked waking etc. The graph showed a slow and steady BG decline overnight, as you'd expect, with a sudden cliff edge drop around 4am. This was followed by an equally strong rise - I presume as my liver dumped loads of dawn phenomenon glucose. The fall and rise happened within a few minutes or so. I don't think fingerprick testing could have caught either the fall (as I was asleep) or the rise, due to how rapid it was.
I don't have an explanation for why this happens (I think of it as my liver nodding off and then panicking) but it explains the sweats, nightmares etc. and that's OK. NB this started while my BG was elevated, but still happens while I'm in normal BG range, so it's not directly a blood glucose thing, perhaps. I've never been on any medication.
I don't think whatever it is would have been detectable without the CGM. You can (I think) still get a free one as a trial, and prioviding it works you might get some useful info.
