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BGL suddenly drops to Hypoglycaemia level, for no reason.
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"I would ask two questions, first if you are still taking diabetes meds to lower blood glucose, and second if you can associate the low blood glucose events with anything - diet, exercise, or even just time since last meal."
I am still taking Forxiga 10mg and Metformin 1000mg every morning.
For 20 years my BGL was really good with 12 long acting insulin in the morning and 12 in the evening. After the infection sepsis)caused by a bile duct stone ( my BGL is all over the place. I'm currently using 15u long acting morning and 3-5 Novorapid before each meal.
I eat pretty much the same meals every day, do the same exercise, and use the same insulin doses. Some days BGL is within range, other days I will get a BGL crash down to 2.3mml/L (41.4 mg/dL) suddenly and with out warning. Other days I will get a spike of 16mml/L (288 mg/dL) suddenly and without warning????
My HBA1c has always been around 6.0 - 6.4 for 20 years. With all this happening, I have no idea what my next HBA1c will be.
Maybe type sC is the explanation, but there is no diagnostic test to confirm it.
SO FRUSTRATING!!
Thank you for your interest and for allowing me to ventilate my frustration 🙂
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Oops sC
Should read 3C
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@waynerkk yes you did say insulin, so I should have seen that before asking, apologies.
It would seem to me that, with even a suspicion of this type 3C, that your ADNE should be getting you with the doctor to talk about adjusting your meds, especially the insulin. I'm no expert on this though I was on insulin for a short time, but reducing the long-acting and then perhaps increasing the short-acting a little, would seem indicated.
Even now, when you get a spike reading like 288mg/dL, are you taking an additional short-acting shot? With the CGM you might know - how long does such a spike last?
Maybe with these symptoms you qualify to talk with a specialist doctor, in the US that would usually be an endocrinologist? Certainly it seems the trend world-wide for the GP/PCP to know less about ... almost anything, in the US we often get quick referral to specialists if you even sneeze wrong (though OTOH I've heard many stories of people with serious, long-term diabetes still treated only by GP/PCP when it would seem something more is needed, especially now with the Ozempic class of meds).