Hi everyone, I'm Debs. I'm 45, very overweight ( I have 7 stone to lose). I was diagnosed T2 6 weeks ago. Was feeling absolutely fine apart from repeated UTI's. Couldn't understand why I kept getting them, so went to GP and she said well just check your blood sugar. Came back as 13.2, even I knew that was not good at all. She told me my HbA1c was 10.2. I'm assuming that's %. So she started me on 500mg Metformin once a day slow release. I started low carb eating from that moment. I haven't eaten more than 20g of carbs a day in these 6 weeks.
The metformin has ruined my quality of life. I have had stomach cramps ( sometimes quite severe) for 6 weeks and I have the horrible toilet trips, every day for the last 6 weeks, sometimes up to 10 times a day.
I have refused nights out with friends and family because I just can't stray far from toilet for long.
For the past 6 weeks whilst taking the metformin and low carbing my bloods were ranging from 8.8 to 6.2.
3 days ago, I was just so fed up with feeling sick all day and running to the loo, I threw the head up and refused to take it again. In 3 days, metformin free, my bloods have been ranging from 6.9 - 7.2 - 6.5. This morning it was 7.9 that's the highest it's been but I'm thinking it was maybe just a liver dump, hopefully, because 2 hours later it was down to 6.8 again.
Since coming off the metformin, I have had so much more energy, I feel alive, not sluggish or tired, not hungry, no sickness, no toilet trips and just so much better.
I'm scared to stop them, because I don't want those nasty UTI's to come back, but I need to have some quality of life too. I even cancelled a trip to dentist because I couldn't risk it. That's no way to live.
I'm sticking to my low carb diet for the foreseeable future, probably the rest of my life. Judging by my results, does it look like something that I can do?
I go to see my DN on Friday and he is hell bent on getting me to take the weekly injection. I'm refusing so far because I don't know enough about it yet, which is scary.
Would love all your opinions. Thank you. X x x x
3 days ago, I threw the head up and just stopped
The metformin has ruined my quality of life. I have had stomach cramps ( sometimes quite severe) for 6 weeks and I have the horrible toilet trips, every day for the last 6 weeks, sometimes up to 10 times a day.
I have refused nights out with friends and family because I just can't stray far from toilet for long.
For the past 6 weeks whilst taking the metformin and low carbing my bloods were ranging from 8.8 to 6.2.
3 days ago, I was just so fed up with feeling sick all day and running to the loo, I threw the head up and refused to take it again. In 3 days, metformin free, my bloods have been ranging from 6.9 - 7.2 - 6.5. This morning it was 7.9 that's the highest it's been but I'm thinking it was maybe just a liver dump, hopefully, because 2 hours later it was down to 6.8 again.
Since coming off the metformin, I have had so much more energy, I feel alive, not sluggish or tired, not hungry, no sickness, no toilet trips and just so much better.
I'm scared to stop them, because I don't want those nasty UTI's to come back, but I need to have some quality of life too. I even cancelled a trip to dentist because I couldn't risk it. That's no way to live.
I'm sticking to my low carb diet for the foreseeable future, probably the rest of my life. Judging by my results, does it look like something that I can do?
I go to see my DN on Friday and he is hell bent on getting me to take the weekly injection. I'm refusing so far because I don't know enough about it yet, which is scary.
Would love all your opinions. Thank you. X x x x
3 days ago, I threw the head up and just stopped