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Type 2 or Type 1

kevkevkev

kevkevkev

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Location
Peterlee
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I have been diagnosed as type 2 by my doctor but went to the desmond course and the specialist nurse there thought i might be type 1 cos of how high my original reading was and i'm not overweight, I take 3 500mg metformin a day i'm very confused my bloods seem fine when i do a home urine test but every now and again i get a really high one so that tells me most of the time my metformin must be doing its job (which it wouldn't if i was type 1) but the last couple of days i have felt like i'm having a hypo (which wouldn't happen if i was type 2 on metformin) so confused.

Can someone help me?
 
Urine tests aren't very accurate. They measure urine glucose that has possibly been sitting in your bladder form several hours ago (therefore you are measuring glucose from the past). If you want a more accurate measurement you would have to do blood glucose tests. Don't know how you would go about getting a meter though - would be quite expensive o buy one for a few tests only


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Hi
I am also recently diagnosed by about 3 months
Having lots of issues with the weather I am currently taking metformin and glimepiride due to having such a high blood sugar reading to the point I lost 90% of my vision for a month scary times but back to my questions
Regarding the weather I have a good breakfast as recommended by my diabetes nurse and obviously my medication but by the time I have left my house and done say a 20min walk to the local town obviously sweating due to weather I am getting the shakes and having to have a snack is this normal ?? Also a lot of the food my diabetes nurse recommended I.e mainly pulses I feel that my stomach can't cope is that normal also
All advice would be really appreciated


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Are you currently taking metformine or glimepiride (someone else might know if this is significant). As a T1 I am told that warm weather can cause unusual pharmacokinetics as in it works faster than expected. Don't know what the effect would be with no man-made insulin though.

As a general rule if you can check blood glucose, check. If below 4.0 (72), take 10g fast acting carbs (60ml lucosade/100ml coca cola). Repeat
Every 10-15 minutes until BG is higher than 4. Wen BG higher than 4 take slow acting carb (eg toast, biscuits etc)


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Hi
I currently take both metformin and glimepiride in the morning and just metformin in the evening
Think it is definately due to the heat but still worries me, I do carry glucose tablets everywhere as advised by my diabetic nurse
Thanks for the reply :-)


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