Hello I am nearly diagnosed type 2 found out in February I was originally taken glimepride then moved onto both glimepride and metformin I recently had my blood tested and my blood level has gone form 75 now it’s at 80 so I have started taking Sukkarto SR 2000mg daily... my question is it normal to feel absolutely horrible like I’m being sick dizzy my head is killing me I can’t hardly walk sometimes I’m losing bowel control I just generally hate this feeling I don’t want to take them but If I don’t my doctor says I will have to inject if my blood level doesn’t come down by October
Don't panic. You're going to be okay. Okay?
I find the regime you've been put on a bit strange, as usually they don't start straight off with glimipride/gliclazide-ish medications, and the sukkarto is just metformin by another brand name. What I'm not surprised about is the way you are feeling, nor that it's not exactly helping at all. There's a lot of medication thrown at you (in a strange order), but it doesn't sound like they really know what they're doing. Sorry.
So here's the thing: A lot of people get the side effects you mention with metformin/sukkarto. Worst bit of that being, it doesn't actually do all that much. it tells your liver not to dump too much glucose, it increases insulin sensitivity a little bit, and it supresses appitite... but it doesn't do
anything at all about what you eat. And what you eat causes the bigget spikes. Now, the glimipride does increase your insulin production, but in doing so, it also harms your pancreas in the long run. So.... Here's some diabetes basics: We can't process carbs. Almost all carbs turn to glucose once ingested, so not just sugars, but starches too.
Guess what. Cut the carbs. Drop your blood sugars. It really IS that easy. I've come down from higher HbA1c's than yours, as have many on here, and back into the normal range, just by a change of diet. Do be careful though. If you go low carb, the metformin/sukkarto won't make a difference, but the glimipride can cause hypo's when combined with a low carb diet. So you'll want to test a lot and adjust your dosage down.
What does all this mean?
Change your diet, and you won't need medication. Quite likely you won't need any of it anymore. But the first thing you want to get rid of is the metformin.
Also, as a matter of course, a lot of newlt diagnosed T2's are put on a statin, even if we don't actually need one. (if you've had a cardiac event already, that's another matter. If you haven't though....). You haven't mentioned being on one, but a lot of us experience brain fog and joint pain on statins. If you have one and don't actually need it, consider scratching that too.
I know I'm saying a lot of rather controversial things, and I'm going directly against all the advice and medication you're being given, but.... Changing my diet and medication (with my GP's knowledge and assistance) gave me back my quality of life. And I've been in the normal range for almost 4 years now. No complications, no medications, just a change in diet. That was all it took.
https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html <-- have a read, and if it resonates with you, go from there. just please, do not go in without a lot of teststrips and a meter,. with the combincation f medication you're on. hypo's are NOT fun.
Be good to yourself!
Jo
PS:
@ShadowCactus , side effects from metformin won't abate if someone's been on it for 2 weeks or longer with no change. They should go away after a little adjustment period, yeah.... And if they don't, they're not going to. Been there.
