Advice

[mely]

Hi all I'm on 2000 metformin now for the last month its like my body is shaking inside any help on this please sorry kind of nervous

 

[Inka]

No need to be nervous @mely 🙂 Everyone is friendly here.

Can you describe the shaking a little more? Do you visibly tremble, or is it more a kind of ‘butterflies in your stomach’ thing? Do you have a blood glucose meter to test at home?

 

[mely]

It's like inside tremors it's visible I just feel inside and I test my bold like prick finger

 

[Lucyr]

What kind of numbers do you get when you feel like this?

 

[mely]

Between 15 n 17 but doctors said blood in my body is 57

 

[Inka]

It's like inside tremors it's visible I just feel inside and I test my bold like prick finger

Have you spoken to your doctor about this? Are they palpitations?

 

[mely]

Yeah but doctors don't do anything I've asked him serval times

 

[EmmaL76]

No need to be nervous @mely 🙂 Everyone is friendly here.

Can you describe the shaking a little more? Do you visibly tremble, or is it more a kind of ‘butterflies in your stomach’ thing? Do you have a blood glucose meter to test at home?

Hi there, have you recently started any other medication besides the metformin?

Sorry this is for mely, replied to the wrong comment x

 

[mely]

Yeah I'm a lot of medication inka

 

[mely]

Yeah I'm a lot of medication inka

 

[mely]

I'm on blood pressure tablets I have copd to
Stiglani 100mgone per day b12 meds n loads more

 

[Inka]

I'm on blood pressure tablets I have copd to
Stiglani 100mgone per day b12 meds n loads more

Could it be a side effect of one of those?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Between 15 n 17 but doctors said blood in my body is 57

Sorry to hear about your trembling @mely, and that you aren’t getting much help or advice from your Dr.

The levels you mention are two different types of blood glucose measurement:

The 57 that your Dr quoted is likely to be an HbA1c, this is a long-range measure of how much glucose has stuck to red blood cells over the past 3-4 months. A reading above 48 gets a diagnosis with diabetes, but some people join the forum with readings of 100 or more. Ideally you’d like this reading to be as low as you can manage.

The 15 and 17 look like capillary blood glucose ‘fingerstick’ readings from a blood glucose meter. These show a snapshot of your levels at that one moment in time. Blood glucose fluctuates up and down during the day, and can be affected by many factors (up to 42!) especially by the amount of carbohydrate in your meals - which will raise your BG, and the level of activity and exercise - which generally lowers your BG. Ideally you’d want to gradually reduce these levels into a range closer to 4-8.5, which in turn will reduce your HbA1c.

 

[mely]

What kind of numbers do you get when you feel like this?

Sorry Lucy no offence I only just seen this message I'm getting between 15 and 18 anylower I start internal vibrations then got it down to 8 n started going funny