Diabetes, Type 2
"In general my glucose control was better but I was getting hypoglycemic during the day, especially after exercising, both manifested by shakiness,  sweating, desperate need for snack, empty-headedness.  Started bringing my glucose testing kit everywhere with me and found my glucose as low as 54 at the times I checked it.  Sometimes I was too shakey to test;  fortunately my gym had hard candy which I hate but had to take.  I had been on 5 mg twice daily along with Metformin 1000 mg long acting in the evening.  Turns out the geriatric dose can be 2.5 mg before breakfast.  I may try that since my glucoses are 140-150 off of glipizide despite exercise and mostly plant-based diet whereas it had been 104-116 on it (but hypoglycemia intolerable"