My blood sugar keeps dropping

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It gets so low I get dizzy, shaky, my hands and arms fall asleep and my heart races. I eat 90 g of protein a day and complex carbs throughout the day. I’m thinking I don’t need the diabetes med anymore

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I would talk to your doctor about that.

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Yeah. I plan to tomorrow

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You may need to eat more carbs throughout the day.
Try including more fruit.

To be honest I don’t think I’m eating enough during the day.

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My old primary care physician said I could try stopping the Glipizide, a diabetes medication. My fasting blood sugar was 73. It was up to 116 without the med.

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She already stopped my glipizide, but I’m still on 1000mg of Metformin

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I was only taking Glipizide. I switched to Abilify last May and my blood sugar went down. I was on Zyprexa.

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My sugar went up and up since starting APs. But with diet, exercise, and losing weight, my sugar has come down a lot. My last A1C was only 5.5

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thats weird, abilify is suppose to raise blood sugar. I guess maybe Zyprexa raises it more? Dunno anything about Zyprexa.

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My A1C was 5.7. 5.5 is in the normal range.

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Metformin doesn’t cause hypoglycemia @LilyoftheValley
It shouldn’t do this.

I’m on 2000mg of Metformin.

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Weird. I’ll have to figure out what’s going on. Today I didn’t exercise and had both protein and carbs and it dropped anyway.

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Yeah go talk with your doctor it’s a good idea

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I got low blood sugar symptoms from extreme diets, eating 1000-1200 calories/day. Was irritable and nervous too. Fixed that with increasing carbs intake 1600 calories/day. Up your carbs. Tell to your Dr about how many calories you’r eating and about your diet, how much carbs etc

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She already knows what I’m eating. I got her approval. Men need more calories than women

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Anyways the only way to fix low blood sugar is to up your carbs intake.

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Don’t up your carbs. When it’s too low, take a sugar pill, and then follow up with protein to stabilize the level. Sounds like you need a lower dose of metformin. Cinnamon does a really good job stabilizing your sugar level. Mixed with oats in the morning, it’s a great way to start the day. Good luck! And talk to your doctor!

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Thanks! I eat oats with cinnamon almost every day for breakfast. It’s good

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Thats carbs? 155

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You mean cinnamon raises blood sugar to normal lvls? :thinking: