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<blockquote data-quote="mchphoto" data-source="post: 642564" data-attributes="member: 60084"><p>I got these sudden drops from good levels at waking (6.7) and wondered why i felt odd with hypo symptoms, I had eaten before I went out at 7.30, then again at 10 ish, at 11am I checked my sugars it was 4.0. I had to leave the training session to sort myself out. In the end after a chat with my doctor who said stop the metformin to let my sugars rise, it sort of helped. However I had to leave the job which was an call center work with a lot of stress and the next week when I was not at work, my sugar level returned to their normal levels. I had 4 days with these symptoms, however after lunch and towards supper I was always OK, I have put this down to the stress levels as I had never had this kind of stress before. But I am keeping an eye on my levels now that I am off the metformin and feel a bit better now that I do not have to take them and my levels do not seem to go much above 8 even after a meal which is great. (my lowest ever reading was 2.8)</p><p></p><p>I keep hearing that Type 2's cannot get hypos, well we do, so Nurses and Doctors out there just ask us diabetics and check our testers for the readings, in fact of they watch some of the "emergency paramedics" programs (Emergency Bikers) they have shown a few type 2 patients having hypos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mchphoto, post: 642564, member: 60084"] I got these sudden drops from good levels at waking (6.7) and wondered why i felt odd with hypo symptoms, I had eaten before I went out at 7.30, then again at 10 ish, at 11am I checked my sugars it was 4.0. I had to leave the training session to sort myself out. In the end after a chat with my doctor who said stop the metformin to let my sugars rise, it sort of helped. However I had to leave the job which was an call center work with a lot of stress and the next week when I was not at work, my sugar level returned to their normal levels. I had 4 days with these symptoms, however after lunch and towards supper I was always OK, I have put this down to the stress levels as I had never had this kind of stress before. But I am keeping an eye on my levels now that I am off the metformin and feel a bit better now that I do not have to take them and my levels do not seem to go much above 8 even after a meal which is great. (my lowest ever reading was 2.8) I keep hearing that Type 2's cannot get hypos, well we do, so Nurses and Doctors out there just ask us diabetics and check our testers for the readings, in fact of they watch some of the "emergency paramedics" programs (Emergency Bikers) they have shown a few type 2 patients having hypos. [/QUOTE]
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