ok, need some help again. Low numbers?

[Kubilee]

Ok, it is me again. I am on Actoplus Met two times a day. I take it in the mornings with my breakfast and with my dinner.

My morning reading is usually around 95-105, and my late night reading, after my dinner, is averaging around 85-110.

Here is my issue. Around 3-4, I start feeling a little light headed lately, the last week, I'd say and when I check my BS, it is averaging around 68-75. Why is this and what can I do to make it stop dropping out like that. I know it isn't too horribly low as I mentioned, and the first time, I didn't feel too concerned, but now that I have been charting it, almost every day now, it is dropping like that.

I don't usually feel too bad until it hits around 70ish, then I start feeling a little nasty. Is this normal for it to drop like that everyday? Once it didn't bug me TOO bad, although I still wanted to know how to combat it, but it's everyday for the past several days now and I am a little tired of feeling nasty for a couple of hours in the middle of the day like this.

I have a snack, usually a handful of peanuts or something light like that, not anything too harsh or heavy. Or a piece of fruit or something like that, so I am not going without eating at all.

[MJB]

Hi.

I would talk to your doc about getting you off the actos and using straight metformin.

I had the same experience on actoplus met.

Your numbers seem low enough that he may switch you.

In the meantime keep some glucose tabs or hard candy with you always to fight the lows when they occur.

[Kubilee]

Hi.

I would talk to your doc about getting you off the actos and using straight metformin.

I had the same experience on actoplus met.

Your numbers seem low enough that he may switch you.

In the meantime keep some glucose tabs or hard candy with you always to fight the lows when they occur.


My sister in law just told me basically this same thing. She said that she had patients (she is a home health care RN) that reacted this same way to the Actoplus Met and told me to go and see him as soon as is possible and have him change it.

I have read up on the Actoplus, but I am not really understanding why it has to be that and not JUST Metaformin, and I forgot to ask her about this. So I guess I'll ask him when I see him on Thursday. :eek:

I'll be so glad when I just know what I am supposed to do and when and how and so forth. Just when I think I am doing so good, I get another curve ball tossed at me and have to start researching all over again. lol

[volleyball]

I am far from being a medicine expert but that seems like a heavy med for someone just diagnosed. I took meds for a short time after my diagnose while I immediately changed my diet. In less than 2 months I was off meds.
If you've been good, maybe you could go to a lot less meds and therefore avoids the lows. Also changing your lunch to include something that takes longer to digest may help