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I was diagnosed with Type 2 about 4 and a half years ago and did the usual for three months of trying to control it with food which dropped it down a bit but not enough and was put on 2 metformin 500mg one with breakfast and one with my main meal. I continued to try to drop weight as I was very overweight at the beginning and in fact was 21 and a half stone. I managed to lose 2 stone but still my levels had not come down quite enough so was put on 3 in total instead. I have always had a very low cholesterol level and it is very normal for my levels to be around 2.2 or 2.4 whenever tested and had been for many years. I have now lost another 4 and a half stone and have after a battle with a nurse who did not want to try lowering my meds been allowed to drop my metformin back to 2 per day and for the last 3 years my HAB1C has been approx 5.2 or 5.3.. I had an interim non fasting check this time and saw the senior nurse practitioner who deals with diabetes and told her I had recently had a hypo where I felt extremely sick and shaking and sweating and when I tested with my machine that they no longer provide my test strips for like most of the surgeries now, I was only 3.2 which I considered to be a hypo. This happened after having a very healthy well balanced meal. They will keep telling me it is not possible to have a hypo on Metformin and yet again she said the same. I ate a mars bar and an hour later followed it up with a small sandwich and then I was back to normal and my reading then was 6.4. On this visit she has now dropped my Metformin down to 1 in the morning but I keep feeling sick and shakey although my level was still at 4.2 and this again was after eating my breakfast. I have a small portion of porridge for breakfast every day and until now it has never affected me. I just don't understand what is happening to me and who to believe what from. Does anybody have any advice that still helps me to stay on a healthy well balanced normal food regime. I am still 5 stone overweight so it is not that I am underweight or anything like that and we measure and weigh all my food as that is how I have managed to lose the last 4 and a half stone since August 2010. I cannot take any real exercise as I am in a wheelchair with two collapsed hips and fibromyalgia and I am also on a lot of mega strong pain meds etc.