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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lovinglife" data-source="post: 2737309" data-attributes="member: 22428">Hi [USER=538739]@SOTR[/USER]One of your meds is Gliclizide which CAN cause hypos so it’s very possible you were in hypo territory and you were right to treat it, when I was on Gliclizide and had alcohol I used to experience hypos after a couple of drinks without having a small amount of slow acting carbs with it. Usually a bag of salted nuts. I’ve been as low as 2.1 whilst on Gliclizide- horrible feeling and it came on quickly If you begin to experience hypos regularly on those meds it may be worth speaking to your GP or HCP about reducing your dose, it’s better to not have the hypos than to feed themWhen I had hypos I would treat with a couple of glucose tabs and follow up with a 10g carb snack of slow acting carbs, I would test every 15 minutes to make sure it had evened out and if I got a couple of tests above 4.5 then I knew I’d got it sortedI’ve no experience of a CGM but I’m thinking that you wouldn’t need to test for the rise as your CGM would give you that information, could the swift rise you saw be because you treated the hypo Edited to add a bit more info</blockquote>

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