I'm Back, revisited

[Guest guest]

Having been very diligent this week in getting used to my new FreeStyle

glucometer and my new med regimen of Metformin twice three times a day and

Glyburide in the morning and evening, it's definitely been interesting. On

the whole, I'm getting much better control of my sugars, but I have found

that a couple of times this week I probably controlled the sugars a little

too well with evening THREE to FOUR hour post prandials of 66. Perhaps my

ultimate control will be with just the one Glyburide in the morning and not

in the evening, or could it be the Metformin that I should scale back? I

don't know which would be more likely to be the culprit, other than for the

fact that the Metformin by itself didn't seem to lower my BS that much in

the beginning.

One thing that does concern me though is that if I take a reading at say

1-1/2 hours rather than 2, my reading might be 148 to 165, but, say by 2-1/2

hours, it's anywhere between 100 and 85. I know that it's the 2-hour PP that

is important, and I also know that it's important to NOT have a

roller-coaster effect in sugars, but how high should I accept a BS if I even

take a reading too early? Or should it be fluctuating like the above?

One thing I do know is I can definitely tell when I get a low BS like 66 or

last night's 61, I can really feel it and a half piece of a glucose tablet

pulls me out of that within 15 minutes to where I'm up to 85. So at least

I'm able to listen to my body when it tells me something's wrong. And if my

sugar is too high I can really feel that, too. I get very dragged out if

that happens.

Your thoughts?

Best regards,

Bill