eating with Gliclazide

[ronnierabbit]

Hi, does anyone know how often I should have to eat being on 40mg Gliclazide. I keep having trembling, feeling hot or sweating on head a lot, and bit of nausea. i'm needing to eat every two hours during the day. Mornings are much worse. I 0nly started the drug on Wednesday. Felt funny today about 13.30 having eaten at 11.45. I felt kind of dizzy/disorientated. my bc reading was 4.2 so not a hypo as such. Anyone else have this problem and if so did it improve? many thanks.

 

[grovesy]

What were your readings like before?
I had to go on slow release version as I did not like speed the ordinary version worked on me even trying it at differnt times.
I have also found reducing my carbohydrate intake as well as helped me.

 

[Stitch147]

Im on gliclizide too, i only eat 3 meals a day, brekkie, lunch and dinner. What were your BG readings before going on the gliclizide? Mine were regularly in the high teens and low 20's, at first if my bg levels went below 5.5 i was feeling very wobbly and strange. My doc did warn me about this as my body has been so used to high levels for so long. Now my body is getting used to the lower numbers so I dont feel as bad now. If i get the wobbly "hypo" symptoms now but my bloods are in "normal" range i just have a cup of tea with 1 sugar and that does the trick for me now.

 

[Caroline]

when I was on gliclizide I was just having three meals a day with the odd snack if I needed it.

If your numbers have been high you will experience the symptoms of a hypo even in the normal range, although at 4.2 I'd be having something carby to make sure it doesn't go any lower.

 

[ronnierabbit]

Hi many thanks for your replies. usually in the morning before brekkie I was about 6.9 or just over. bed about 8.8 at highest. I have been having to eat every two hours in the day since last Wednesday when I started the drug. Nurse has said my levels are low after eating. I was adding in cereal bar to get the high sugar inbetween meals as fruit didn't work. Yesterday the nurse said I should be having carbohydrate food as snacks. yest I was 5.4 two hours after lunch and by another hr and 10 mins I was 2.8. panicked me as not quite sure what I should be doing. Had 100ml lucozade and piece of toast, up to 7.7. dropped to 4.6 before bed, this morning with no tablet before breakfast was 5.4. having to test 6 x a day until tomorrow eve and phone nurse. Diabetes doc supposed to phone me today. thank you for the advice.

 

[Northerner]

Hi many thanks for your replies. usually in the morning before brekkie I was about 6.9 or just over. bed about 8.8 at highest. I have been having to eat every two hours in the day since last Wednesday when I started the drug. Nurse has said my levels are low after eating. I was adding in cereal bar to get the high sugar inbetween meals as fruit didn't work. Yesterday the nurse said I should be having carbohydrate food as snacks. yest I was 5.4 two hours after lunch and by another hr and 10 mins I was 2.8. panicked me as not quite sure what I should be doing. Had 100ml lucozade and piece of toast, up to 7.7. dropped to 4.6 before bed, this morning with no tablet before breakfast was 5.4. having to test 6 x a day until tomorrow eve and phone nurse. Diabetes doc supposed to phone me today. thank you for the advice.

It doesn't sound to me like you need the gliclizide - you're on a low dose anyway and if it's driving you to have to 'feed' it to keep your levels up then it may be the wrong medication for you. Hope the doctor can sort it out for you! 🙂

 

[pav]

As Alan says you might not need gliclazide or if you do maybe at a even lower dose. What were your levels like before being put on gliclazide?