hypoglycimic night episodes
 

I have been such a good girl since I discovered I was diabetic in November. Low glycemic diet, weight loss, monitoring sugar, taking medications...I'm like a picture perfect diabetic. I got my A1C down from 13 to 6.7 in two months I've lost 12 pounds. My sugars stay below 120. Lately however I am waking during the evening with severe hypoglycemia. I mean sugars in the low 50's and I'm trembling and anxious and feel dreadful. I eat glucose tabs but it's everything I can do to get my suar back into a normal range before it's time for more medication...I'm having trouble understanding what I'm doing wrong. It's almost painful for me to eat when I'm like this. My husband always has to help me. I take janumet morning and night glipizide morning and night and Lisinopril for high blood pressure in the morning. It doesn't seem like an excessive amount of drugs considering my sugars were soaring in the high 400's just two months ago. Any advise?

Congrats on the weight loss and the A1c, sorry to hear about the hypo's. I really can't give you many pointers without knowing what you eat. I assume maybe a low carb diet and maybe putting a few carbs back in will help. Use the Rule of 15 (ie 15-15 Rule) for lows, info available in tag search, and read the first three Treads in the Type 2 Section.

I eliminated all sugar, soda, juice, pasta, and fried from my diet. I eat mostly meats, whole grain breads, veggies, and cheese. However yesterday I stayed hypoglycemic all day so I went to dinner with my sister and I ate a carboCHEATdrate meal with Mac and cheese and a loaded baked potato. Ate my leftovers right before bed and still was awakened by a blood glucose of 51!

What would you say that your carb intake per meal averages, 30 maybe?

Since you are not taking insulin, I would try either: eating more carbs at dinner, cutting back a little on the exercise program after dinner, or taking half meds to see if any of these help. Talk to your doctor soon, with your findings.