OK, I started getting hypos and we cut out glicazide which sorted it

[Philip Miles Warn]

Hello fellow diabetics type 2, I was diagnosed ten years' ago in Orpington and when i moved here 18 months ago on 24th November 2016, a diabetic urse at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital added gliclazide, 120 mg twice a day, to my one gram of metformin morning and evening. All seemed to be fine and dandy except starting on March 19th I started to get hypos and the worst was 4 weeks ago, when returning from my lunch club, I was sitting on my trusty mobility scooter seat, when I experienced what I can only call brain fade, when I did not have the ability to have any thought in my mind. This lasted for about 15 minutes, I guess, but is the most unnerving thing I have ever experienced in my life, scary! I telephone Diabetes UK and spoke to a most helpful guy, who spent about 40 minutes taking me through just about all aspects of type 2 diabetes. He suggested I took myself off gliclazide immediately an make an immediate appointment to see a GP. I did both and saw the lady GP who confirmed that was the best thing to do and Googled the internet for about 10 minutes, a slightly worrying ting in itself! Any way, starting last tuesday I started a single dose of 100 mg Januvia/Sitagliptin a day. NO hypos since I took myself off glicalzide and no side effects for the Sitagliptin. I am still very headachy, tired and still problems with recall of facts, etc. which is a trifle worrying, but basically a happy bunny now, thank you Diabetes UK

 

[Diabetes UK]

Hi Philip - welcome to the forum. Thanks very much for sharing your experience here. Sorry to hear that you had such a shock with the gliclazide, which sounded like it was not the right medication for you. It's wonderful to hear that you got such great support from the Helpline, I will pass on your thanks to the team who will be delighted to hear of your improvements. 🙂
Glad to hear things are much better on the new medication. Do you test your BG levels at all? Wonder if by testing, you may be able to establish if it is your BG levels that are causing tiredness, or if it may be attributed to something else?

 

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[Martin Canty]

Hi Philip, I hear your pain..... And glad you got good prompt advice..... Welcome to the forum

 

[Philip Miles Warn]

I am so glad you like happy bunnies here lol! No seriously, I claimed to have had NIDDM aka t2 diabetes for ten years but it is far longer. Knowing that I had a hypo in two building socs in both Orpington and Bromley and that the A&E was open in Orpington, and the Bromley A&E was open for the second, I can pinpoint my diabetes to probably as far back as 2002/3. I will clinch it as I have asked to eyeball my medical records at my docs which I only joined after moving here to the idyllic village of West Moors in east Dorset on 24th November 2016. I want to get straight in my mind when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, when I had the TURP and when I had the 48 needle prostate biopsy at Guys in London, performed by a nurse practitioner, who had assured me by telling me how many biopsies she had done! Happy to relate I joined Diabetes UK and paid my £36 the day after Andy, the counsellor gave me all the good advice. I had just cancelled my £60 a year to a cancer charity (no naming here!) when I discovered they pay their Chief Exec 240,000 GBP a year - nearly a 1/4 of a million squid!
That is really taking the P!