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<blockquote data-quote="suzybee" data-source="post: 224727" data-attributes="member: 27118"><p>It is such a shame that medical profession are not a bit more explanatory about the hypo and metformin situation as then people like us that do get them would not worry so much. They will state without hesitation that you cannot get a hypo on them so when you do you are left worried and confused. I never thought for a moment that it was Metformin that caused my hypo and was never ever told in the beginning of taking them that you can't get a hypo on them. In fact I was advised by my diabetic doctor what to do should it happen but that it was fairly unlikely which is the way that I think that all the nurses should advise on it rather than the never route I have been informed of since moving to another area and therefore another surgery. </p><p></p><p>As for your situation with the hypo today:- maybe you could have had a snack mid morning to have just given yourself a small boost especially if you had a fairly early breakfast and a lunch a little later. You may have done exactly the same time wise as you normally do but I am only trying to think why it may have happened. I have never eaten Granola as I was under the impression it was quite sweet but perhaps I am wrong. I always find I am better with little and often so normally have a small snack mid morning and mid afternoon and the same before I go to sleep. It is always planned into my day so I don't tend to trip up and have things I shouldn't unless I have planned for it to happen. After all we have to live and nobody said we have to be perfect all the time. lol. I always have porridge for breakfast but I only use the real oats porridge not the instant packet stuff and am really glad as I was reading a book on GI foods over the weekend and in there it actually stated that the real porridge oats are low GI whereas the instant porridge is not and that is a mistake that could easily be made. Someone on here did advise me to have Shredded Wheat instead of porridge because he thought that it was better and I wonder now if he thought that I was using the instant stuff and that was his thinking behind the suggestion. Is Shredded Wheat low gi or is it med/high because it seems to me that other wheat things are high gi and even bran cereal is only low gi if you have the original noodle shape (All Bran) rather than the flakes which are med gi. It is a minefield if you don't check every now and again. I never was somebody that ate loads of chocolate or a lot of sweet foods really at all. I may have had a chocolate bar once a month or so and it is so hard to rationalise why one of us has a hypo when someone else doesn't but like Viv said at least you are aware of the feeling that it gave you and you can be prepared with something like the glucose tabs or the other thing my doc suggested to me was a can of coke but not the diet type obviously and then I was told to follow it up with a sandwich about half an hour later. I think that we all get told different things and it is only time and trying things to see what works best for you as an individual. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="suzybee, post: 224727, member: 27118"] It is such a shame that medical profession are not a bit more explanatory about the hypo and metformin situation as then people like us that do get them would not worry so much. They will state without hesitation that you cannot get a hypo on them so when you do you are left worried and confused. I never thought for a moment that it was Metformin that caused my hypo and was never ever told in the beginning of taking them that you can't get a hypo on them. In fact I was advised by my diabetic doctor what to do should it happen but that it was fairly unlikely which is the way that I think that all the nurses should advise on it rather than the never route I have been informed of since moving to another area and therefore another surgery. As for your situation with the hypo today:- maybe you could have had a snack mid morning to have just given yourself a small boost especially if you had a fairly early breakfast and a lunch a little later. You may have done exactly the same time wise as you normally do but I am only trying to think why it may have happened. I have never eaten Granola as I was under the impression it was quite sweet but perhaps I am wrong. I always find I am better with little and often so normally have a small snack mid morning and mid afternoon and the same before I go to sleep. It is always planned into my day so I don't tend to trip up and have things I shouldn't unless I have planned for it to happen. After all we have to live and nobody said we have to be perfect all the time. lol. I always have porridge for breakfast but I only use the real oats porridge not the instant packet stuff and am really glad as I was reading a book on GI foods over the weekend and in there it actually stated that the real porridge oats are low GI whereas the instant porridge is not and that is a mistake that could easily be made. Someone on here did advise me to have Shredded Wheat instead of porridge because he thought that it was better and I wonder now if he thought that I was using the instant stuff and that was his thinking behind the suggestion. Is Shredded Wheat low gi or is it med/high because it seems to me that other wheat things are high gi and even bran cereal is only low gi if you have the original noodle shape (All Bran) rather than the flakes which are med gi. It is a minefield if you don't check every now and again. I never was somebody that ate loads of chocolate or a lot of sweet foods really at all. I may have had a chocolate bar once a month or so and it is so hard to rationalise why one of us has a hypo when someone else doesn't but like Viv said at least you are aware of the feeling that it gave you and you can be prepared with something like the glucose tabs or the other thing my doc suggested to me was a can of coke but not the diet type obviously and then I was told to follow it up with a sandwich about half an hour later. I think that we all get told different things and it is only time and trying things to see what works best for you as an individual. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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