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harbottle
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Yes. Don't eat sandwiches and biscuits.
Leadinglights
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How were you checking your blood glucose, did you check because you felt wobbly. I can see why your blood glucose rose so much as you ate quite a lot of carbs in the sandwich (bread high carb) and a biscuit also high carb.
Metformin doesn't act directly on food but just works gently in the background and will only make a small difference to blood glucose, what you eat will be having the greatest impact.
What had you had to eat before you went for your walk as if it was a high carb meal then the pancreas over produces insulin and can make your blood glucose level go low which means people then need to eat to bring it up a bit but not too much otherwise the cycle starts all over again.
harbottle
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3.2 after a walk and then 6.2 ten minutes late? Sound about right. Usually takes me 10-15 minutes to get back up to normal levels when I see low values like this after a walk.
Or it was a faulty reading and you were already in the 4-7 range.
T2s on metformin don't need to eat to bring levels back up. At 3.2 there's probably no insulin being produced anyway, but glucogen will be getting produced to stimulate glycolysis/gluconeogenesis. If it goes low like this due to exercise just have a rest, and levels will naturally go back up. No need to start eating.
Or it was a faulty reading and you were already in the 4-7 range.
T2s on metformin don't need to eat to bring levels back up. At 3.2 there's probably no insulin being produced anyway, but glucogen will be getting produced to stimulate glycolysis/gluconeogenesis. If it goes low like this due to exercise just have a rest, and levels will naturally go back up. No need to start eating.
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