Hey Lisa. I use to have to eat when I woke up whether I was hungry or not - because my blood sugar would go up. I was never a wake up and eat kind of person, so I would take a couple of bites of a South Beach diet bar. Now a days, if I do not eat right away, my blood sugar just slowly decreases. I wake up at 7am but usually do not eat until 10:00 - 10:30.

I do know that about a month or so into my diagnosis and metformin usage, I was hungry all the time. Not so much when I woke up, but definitely all day long. I could eat dinner and be hungry a half hour later. I would go to bed starving and wake up not hungry. It is funny how I remember that period of time, but I did not even notice when that period of time ended. lol I use to walk whenever I was really hungry and believe it or not - it helped me. I also tried to eat foods really high in fiber to keep me full longer. If this is just happening to you in the morning, then you are lucky! lol


Good luck!

Always good to know i am not alone.It was the feeling that my sugar was low but it wasnt...The other thing is I can be starving and eat and be full pretty fast since I have been on metformin....Not complaining could maybe lose some weight that way....
Thanks

P.S. I was actually hungry at 5 and then 7..I just chose to ignore it...

yeah metformin kinda screwed with me with my hunger and just symptoms overall. i now take it with actos and glipizide which helps with hunger and lowering the sugar level.

I am new here. I take metformin and do not have this type of problem.

And I am not a fan of Actos. I took it for a year and gained over 50 lbs! Read up on it and be very careful taking it. I had my doctor take me off of it in favor of the metformin and have lost 30 lbs in 4 months. It was also just in the news for a possible link to kidney cancer.

I'm always craving something that I shouldn't have. It is a struggle.
I had probelm with diarrhea with metformin. They changed it to Metformin ER and it was better. Actos made me gain 9 pounds in a week and I stopped it at the end of that week.
I have had the feeling I had a low and wasn't. Don't know how to explain that...

I am having the opposite problem - I experience symptoms of highs - dry mouth, excessive thirst, and I pee more - but when I test, I am usually always under 100. My fasting numbers have been in the 80's for the last few days and every night I have been waking up to go to the bathroom. Even when my BS was over 200 and I drank constantly, I never woke in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. I just want to make sure my kidneys are okay - my doctor offered to order a cat scan, but he feels it is unnecessary and I don't want to pay for it. lol I go to see him today so we will see what he says.

I take metformin, never had those symptoms with it, but as your body adjusts to lower numbers, it might think it is having a low until it gets used to having better control

Thanks all....It could be Mizgayle that my body just thikns my sugar is low.Last night before I ate dinner my sugar was around 130 but felt like it was more like 80 and i felt all funky...After I ate all was good...

Its Weird..lol

when I was diagnosed I was in the 900s...when numbers started coming down even 300 seemed like a low to me, took me a year to really be able to tell

It is a good night when I only have to get up to go pee 2 times. Most of the time it is like 3-4...

I think you are right MizGayle.I didnt think you could have sugars in the 900s .The highest ever saw anyones go was 600....

The other thing is that since I have been on the metformin I noticed that even though I feel like I m starving whne I eat I get full faster...

Beckster...I have the same problem,but more at night than during the day.

had a friend with over 1000 of course she was in the hospital since she went into a coma. they told me, they were surprised I didn't end up there and still be walking but I very close to ending up in the hospital, probably by a day