Hi I have been Type 2 now for about 14 years and always pretty well controlled but am now getting up every morning to high BG reading and now GP has started me on Gliclazide and now having Hypos, I already take 3 x 850 Metformin a day, has anyone got any advice 🙂
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Dizee
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Hi AlisonM
I have been testing every day and apart from late morning my readings are averaging out at between 5 and 7mmols all the time, just not used to hypos and they make me feel awful but after about an hour of having a couple of biscuits I'm back to normal. I have GP on Thursday🙂
I have been testing every day and apart from late morning my readings are averaging out at between 5 and 7mmols all the time, just not used to hypos and they make me feel awful but after about an hour of having a couple of biscuits I'm back to normal. I have GP on Thursday🙂
Mrs Mad Ronin
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Welcome to the site 🙂
AlisonM
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It's good you're able to test and I suggest you take the meter with you when you see the doctor. That way he/she will be able to see when the hypos are occurring and how severe they are. You're right, they are nasty, they leave me completely wiped out too. It may be the dose on Gliclazide you're on is too high and needs to be adjusted, or it may be you need to take them at different times as you say you're going high at night. When are you're hypos occurring and how low are you going? I always carry a few jelly babies with me, a couple of those is usually enough to bring me back up.
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Welcome to forum Dizee 🙂
Welcome to the forum Dizee. Gliclazide for me is not a nice med to be on, I have been on it for over 18 months, I was in hypo city when I first started. As already mentioned take the meter with you on your next appointment.
What may help is if you can see a pattern of when your hypo's are happening. Over the past 18 months my dosage has been upped then lowered and up again. For me if I took gliclazide morning and night I was hpyoing all over the place. I now take it 3 times a day, which for me sort of levels the rough ride out a bit. Though can have days when I can struggle to stay above the hypo level, and others when I can't get levels down.
Try and find out how foods affect you, a food diary is good for this, seeing what your levels are before your meal and 2 hours after. A strange one for me if I have bacon on wholemeal bread, I can guarantee that I will be hypo within 2 to 3 hours, no matter what the pre meal reading is.
As Alison says always carry some sweats with you, jelly babies are meant to be the best, my choice is fruit pastels. If you do drive make sure you test before driving and your levels are high enough, they say you should be above 5.0 and allow for your journey time so you don't go low during driving. If you feel funny stop and retest, DVLA say test every 2 hours while driving, this may be too long a time span and you might need to test sooner than the 2 hours.
What may help is if you can see a pattern of when your hypo's are happening. Over the past 18 months my dosage has been upped then lowered and up again. For me if I took gliclazide morning and night I was hpyoing all over the place. I now take it 3 times a day, which for me sort of levels the rough ride out a bit. Though can have days when I can struggle to stay above the hypo level, and others when I can't get levels down.
Try and find out how foods affect you, a food diary is good for this, seeing what your levels are before your meal and 2 hours after. A strange one for me if I have bacon on wholemeal bread, I can guarantee that I will be hypo within 2 to 3 hours, no matter what the pre meal reading is.
As Alison says always carry some sweats with you, jelly babies are meant to be the best, my choice is fruit pastels. If you do drive make sure you test before driving and your levels are high enough, they say you should be above 5.0 and allow for your journey time so you don't go low during driving. If you feel funny stop and retest, DVLA say test every 2 hours while driving, this may be too long a time span and you might need to test sooner than the 2 hours.
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Thankyou so much for all the welcoming messages and the advice as well I am very grateful for any help to sort my problem out in my head. I have been keeping a record of BG's since I started the Gliclazide and the only time I go low is about an hour before lunchtime and has gone as low as 2.4mmols which made me feel awful but after a couple of bickies and an hour or so has past and I feel normal again 🙂 Once lunch is past I seem to stay between 5 & 7 mmols for the rest of the day. Am very interested to see what Doctor will say on Thursday and the result of the Hba1c I had a couple of weeks ago.
Thanking you all once again🙂
Thankyou so much for all the welcoming messages and the advice as well I am very grateful for any help to sort my problem out in my head. I have been keeping a record of BG's since I started the Gliclazide and the only time I go low is about an hour before lunchtime and has gone as low as 2.4mmols which made me feel awful but after a couple of bickies and an hour or so has past and I feel normal again 🙂 Once lunch is past I seem to stay between 5 & 7 mmols for the rest of the day. Am very interested to see what Doctor will say on Thursday and the result of the Hba1c I had a couple of weeks ago.
Thanking you all once again🙂
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