I have just been put on Gliclazide 80 because my health professional said I had to take something I feel so washed out. Is there any advice please because she says changing my diet will not help now! I did take my first reading before lunch and it was 9,2 mmol on the first day of taking the medication
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Changing your diet WILL help lower your BG (reducing carbs), but be very careful with your Gliclazide as they can cause hypo's. If you are in the UK and drive you should have also been prescribed a tester & strips, use them to monitor you levels carefully
JoKalsbeek
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That's a grim view... Dr. Jason Fung helped people who were very, very diabetic back into remission, with diet, so... Why not? I do agree with @lessci though, a low carb diet combined with gliclazide would make you more likely to hypo. (Been there, done that, as no-one warned me!).
You've been a member for a while, and you got low carbing advice way back when... Did you implement it, and it didn't work for some reason or other (not sustainable for you, didn't have the desired effect, whatever), or didn't you go down the low carb road? Did anything change and is there any reason why low carbing would not be in the cards now, aside from it clashing with gliclazide?
Just be very, very careful if you mix the two. It can go very badly. You could get in touch with the nurse and ask whether you can try diet again for 3 months, and THEN start the glic if it doesn't work enough.... She might do an eyeroll and a sigh, but it's your body, your choice.
Hang in there eh,
Jo
Low carb did work for me and I thought foolishly I was "cured" so then slipped back into bad habits with bread, pasta and rice! Then recently I have been having a lot of stressful events and I mean a lot. eating erratically and not recovering from infections so went back to the doctors for a blood test and this is where we are now are reading of 98 in HbC test! A panicked nurse and me on medication
