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hypo and no meds?

Buttons11

Well-Known Member
Messages
162
Location
Woking, Surrey
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Much to the disgust of my DN I stopped my meds about 10 days ago, and have gone away on holiday. She told me not to test at all, and I felt she was setting me up to fail. To spite her I have been really good, sticking to LCHF and my numbers have been fine,
Today for breakfast I had full fat yoghurt with mixed chopped nuts and a couple of strawberries. We went to the beach and it was a mutual decision not to have lunch. So during the day I had a coffee, large bottle of water and one diet coke.
By the time we got home around 4pm I was feeling quite poorly. I wasn't sure if this was due to the heat, not eating or whatever so I did a blood test and it was 3.5.
Does this mean I can no longer control my blood sugar? Could it be the effect of the residue of gliclazide after all this time? Or is it a symptom of something more serious..?
 
Hello.

Hydration is my nemesis, it can cause highs and lows if i do not drink enough water.

Not been on gliclazide so no real useful information about side effects etc.

Stay safe and enjoy the sun
 
I find that I need to eat fairly regularly so don't tend to skip meals. If I miss lunch my BS tends to drop into the 3s which I know some people like @AndBreathe can cope with but I always feel a bit 'shaky'. I always have to have b/fast as well!
 

As I understand it, Gliclazide clears the system relatively quickly. Never having taken it, I couldn't tell you what relatively quickly actually means!

As a T2, our bodies will usually look after us if our numbers go a touch on the low side, so I doubt if you were in medical danger, if you were experiencing a hypo.

Personally, I've never taken meds, and I routinely have low numbers. My morning fasting range is 2.5-4.4, and I can also go even lower in the afternoons and overnight. I feel no ill-effects whatsoever, and my body bounces the numbers up, when I get low, but calling my liver into play.

If you had been in the sun all day, but had only had a coffee, one (2 litre?) bottle of water and a diet coke, I would think you would have been dehydrated, no matter what else might have been going on.

What did you do when you had your 3.5? Did you have something to eat or drink or so something else?

If you feel unwell with a low number, then clearly you have to take note of that, but (as a T2, not taking meds, or having any other medical conditions) if you see a low number and feel fine, please don't be concerned about it. Non-diabetics go low, but as they don't test, they don't know it.

As a matter of interested, if you hadn't been diagnosed diabetic, what would you have done if you had felt as you did this afternoon?
 
Exactly the same thing happens to me at about the same time if I don't eat my usual omnivorous first meal.
Yoghurt etc is a dessert, which I would eat later in the day.
I don't think that it is something wrong, it is just what happens to us in certain cercumstances.
 

When I was taking Gliclazide I occasionally felt shaky with 3s pre evening meal (and after eating lunch) - my DN told me to eat a slice of bread or a banana . Today I had another drink of water, a coffee and some cheese and salami (late lunch I think)

My numbers now are mostly 5-6 with the occasional 4.

I don't recall feeling like this pre diagnosis. Maybe I'm just more aware/looking out for it now?
 

I think I was probably dehydrated and will make sure I drink more in future
 
That's not massively low, probably dehydration. Plus we as diabetic are so used to higher sugar, we feel it more when it's on the low side. Drink more water and enjoy your holiday.
 
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