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zoes

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hi everyone
After I have been out for a meal in an evening I wake in the night with what feels like an allergic reaction. My heart feels as though it is going to leap out of my chest, my temperature feels really high and I feel sick. The first time I thought it was the beginning of an anaphylactic shock!
I get to the bathroom and I am severely sick (and sometimes the other end too!) and then I go back to bed and fall back to sleep feeling much better.
I have always had a sensitive stomach but no matter what I eat when out this seems to happen. It doesn't happen when eating at home, and I do eat well at home, and I remember to take my metformin tablet with me when I go out, but it is really scary and it would be a shame if I couldn't go out for any more meals.
Has anyone else had this? Is it my diabetes? How can I prevent this from happening? Any advice would be so welcome.
Thank you x
 
Do you frequent the same establiment on your eat outs...?
 
bulkbiker said:
Are you eating anything specific when this happens or is it just every time you don't eat at home?
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It has happened with Chinese, Italian and English so no pattern
 
Personally I'd talk to your gp.

Keep a diary of what your eating and where, it could be your sensitive to a cetain food group maybe.

Kelly.
 
blueeyed81 said:
Personally I'd talk to your gp.

Keep a diary of what your eating and where, it could be your sensitive to a cetain food group maybe.

Kelly.
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Thank you x I had thought of that but wasn't sure whether I was over-reacting.
 
Only you know your body hun, it's always best to be safe than sorry.

Kelly x
 

As a matter of interest, do you eat differently when you are out? In particular do you have chips, or potatoes, pasta or pizza, or rice that you might not have at home?

I understand there are instances for some people on Metformin of,... er,.......... bathroom activity, and the urgency of it, happening when a very carb heavy meal is consumes. It doesn't happen to everyone, and I don't have study links to back up that statement, but if you have a sensitive tummy anyway, maybe you just cross the line to it being super-grumpy.
 
Do you drink alcohol when you go out, or get stressed over eating out?

'Chinese, Italian and English '

What do you typically eat at each place?
 
That's a fair point, probably a combination of higher carbs than usual and the metformin. I suppose the food out must be more special than what I eat at home.
Thank you very much x
 
douglas99 said:
Do you drink alcohol when you go out, or get stressed over eating out?

'Chinese, Italian and English '

What do you typically eat at each place?
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It's not the alcohol as it happens with or without drink!! Not sure about the stress thing, possibly but not overly so.
Chinese - Spring rolls then s&s pork or noodles/Italian - pizza or pasta/English - steak & chips (typically)
xx
 
zoes said:
It's not the alcohol as it happens with or without drink!! Not sure about the stress thing, possibly but not overly so.
Chinese - Spring rolls then s&s pork or noodles/Italian - pizza or pasta/English - steak & chips (typically)
xx
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Not low carb when you are out, but do you particularly low carb at home?
How long have you been on metformin for, is it still relatively new to you?
If you take it with your evening meal, have you tried switching it to taking with breakfast?
 
douglas99 said:
Not low carb when you are out, but do you particularly low carb at home?
How long have you been on metformin for, is it still relatively new to you?
If you take it with your evening meal, have you tried switching it to taking with breakfast?
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No don't low carb at home. Think I am in my second year now and take metformin twice day with breakfast and dinner.
Do you think low carbing would help?
 
zoes said:
No don't low carb at home. Think I am in my second year now and take metformin twice day with breakfast and dinner.
Do you think low carbing would help?
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What sort of blood sugar levels do you see? Are they increasing? Have you got your own blood glucose meter, because if you haven't I think you need one, quickly!

With our own meters we can test before eating and 2 hours later to see what that meal has done to our levels. We can also test when we feel ill (as you describe) to see if blood sugar levels aren't as they should be.
 
For me it would be gluten or grains in general. Perhaps cheese but most importantly the bad oils.

I also have heard many times about metformin and carbs but if your not low carb at home it might not matter

On a side note I have a sensitive stomach as well and it tolerates no grains or starch. Works out well as my blood sugar doesn't tolerate them either.
 
zoes said:
No don't low carb at home. Think I am in my second year now and take metformin twice day with breakfast and dinner.
Do you think low carbing would help?
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I've never experienced metformin and carbs specifically not mixing, especially if it's happening after two years, and if you don't low carb at home, it's unlikely it's having any effect when you eat out.
Some people don't get on with metformin initially, but rarely later.
The tachycardia sounds more like a reaction, the sickness sounds like an allergy, so maybe there is a common cause, like MSG, common in chinese, but that isn't as usual on steak and chips.
Anything like pepper sauce with it?
Any other commonality?
sodium
saturated fats,
caffeine,
are other possible triggers.

Is being sick after eating out new, or have you only recently started to eat out?
 
@zoes , as an experiment try eating a similar meal to what you eat at home next time you dine out and see how you get on.
 
I had a very bad reaction to metformin, both normal and slow release. I had to dash to the toilet at great haste whilst taking it, and not to be sick! When I was home and even worse when I was eating out. I've been off it for almost a year now and feel so much better. The GP told me I had a food allergy to milk! But after 4 yrs of no milk I was still ill! Stopped metformin and followed the lchf diet and feel wonderful
 
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