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[BabyfaceLouie]

Hello all. Been diagnosed Type 2 diabetes about 6 years ago. On a fistful of tablets, metformin 2g daily, forxiga 10mg and gliclizide 80mg.
I've recently started blood sugar monitoring, and its all over the place and seemingly bears no relevance to what I have eaten. I aknowledge that my dietary intake is less than ideal, but it doesn't seem to matter.
Anyway, whinge whinge whinge, moan moan moan.......
Looking forward to learn a lot from you all.

 

[Leadinglights]

Hello all. Been diagnosed Type 2 diabetes about 6 years ago. On a fistful of tablets, metformin 2g daily, forxiga 10mg and gliclizide 80mg.
I've recently started blood sugar monitoring, and its all over the place and seemingly bears no relevance to what I have eaten. I aknowledge that my dietary intake is less than ideal, but it doesn't seem to matter.
Anyway, whinge whinge whinge, moan moan moan.......
Looking forward to learn a lot from you all.

Welcome to the forum
First of all everybody's blood glucose goes up and down throughout the day in response to lots of things, food, exercise, just general activity so it is important to have consistent times of testing rather than something random. The medications work in different ways, metformin helps the body use the insulin it produces more effectively and reduces the output of glucose by the liver, gliclazide is encouraging the pancreas to produce more insulin and the forxiga is making the kidneys work harder to excrete excess glucose via urine so they are all working together to try to reduce blood glucose. However they can only do so much and if you are still eating more carbohydrates for the meds to counteract then blood glucose will still be high.
The problem with 2 of those meds is that it is not advised to reduce carbs too much as there is a risk of low blood glucose (hypos) or Euglenic ketoacidosis so there lies the quandary.
You have a monitor so that should enable you to find a happy medium. Testing meals by testing before you eat and after 2 hours will tell you if you tolerate that meal if the increase is no more than 2-3mmol/l or once levels come down no more than 8-8.5 mmol// after 2 hours. The before meal reading you are aiming at is 4-7mmol/l.
If you would like to post what sort of reading you are getting and when as well as the sort of meals you have will help people make suggestions. Also what was your last HbA1C.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @BabyfaceLouie

Glad you have found us!

And good to hear you have a BG meter now. Sorry to hear that your numbers feel a little chaotic at the moment - the early gathering of information can seem a bit bewildering and confusing for sure. It’s one of the reasons why some GPs are reluctant to offer meters to all T2s. But stick with it! Once you start spotting patterns, and making adjustments a BG meter can be a very direct way to fine tune your menu and try to get it to balance with your meds, and all the myriad other factors aside from food that affect blood glucose levels.

As @Leadinglights suggests, taking a reading immediately before and again 2hrs after a meal can be a great way of seeing how you respond to different sources of carbohydrates - including supposedly ‘safe’ and slow release ones. You may find some happy surprises, along with a few options where your metabolism doesn’t seem to have read the ‘slow release’ memo. But using your own invidual results and “eating to your meter” can be a very direct and immediate way of making tweaks and changes to improve your results.

Good luck with it, and let us know how you get on 🙂