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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2133011" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>When your blood sugar goes low your body pumps out hormones to push it back up: glucagon (which makes the liver pump out sugar), epinephrine (adrenaline), cortisol, growth hormone. So you don't feel great. When your body has been running high blood sugars for a while, the insulin feedback loop cuts in at too high a level, you get a "false hypo" and you feel like sh*t. Unfortunately you have to wait out the false hypos in order to retrain your body to react at the proper level (4 instead of 7-10).</p><p></p><p>My guess is that if you're T2 a choice of low carb diet will allow you to get back to normal blood sugars without medication, and you'll need to drop the gliclazide. If you're T1, your levels will gradually go back up as your insulin production slows, and you'll need to ,move onto insulin eventually (but it could take years of you're LADA T1, which is often slow onset).</p><p></p><p>Good luck. Unfortunately there are no hard and fast rules about dosages and times for recovery, everyone is slightly different. But you are now diagnosed (albeit waiting for type) and things will get better eventually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 2133011, member: 372717"] When your blood sugar goes low your body pumps out hormones to push it back up: glucagon (which makes the liver pump out sugar), epinephrine (adrenaline), cortisol, growth hormone. So you don't feel great. When your body has been running high blood sugars for a while, the insulin feedback loop cuts in at too high a level, you get a "false hypo" and you feel like sh*t. Unfortunately you have to wait out the false hypos in order to retrain your body to react at the proper level (4 instead of 7-10). My guess is that if you're T2 a choice of low carb diet will allow you to get back to normal blood sugars without medication, and you'll need to drop the gliclazide. If you're T1, your levels will gradually go back up as your insulin production slows, and you'll need to ,move onto insulin eventually (but it could take years of you're LADA T1, which is often slow onset). Good luck. Unfortunately there are no hard and fast rules about dosages and times for recovery, everyone is slightly different. But you are now diagnosed (albeit waiting for type) and things will get better eventually. [/QUOTE]
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