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<blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 1391523" data-attributes="member: 19121"><p>Hi <span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>pasiphae1953</strong>, good luck for your gp appointment on the 27th, there are many diabetic drugs that can be prescribed instead of metformin which many have problems with and some like yourself just cant take due to diarrhoea and sickness problems.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Metformin is also not very effective at lowering blood glucose (bg) levels in fact the highest recommended level will only drop bg levels by between 1 or 2 points, far more effective is changing your eating habits and all you may need to do is reduce the amounts of carbohydrates you eat like cutting back on potato, rice, pasta and bread especially white and wholemeal breads as it is the carbohydrates in our diets that causes the high bg levels.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">There is a moderator who normally posts to new members a brief introduction to diabetic control that you will hopefully find informative and enlightening, you can find it by following this link, just click on it <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/basic-information-for-newly-diagnosed-diabetics.17088/" target="_blank">http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/basic-information-for-newly-diagnosed-diabetics.17088/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I find that just by reducing the carbs in my diet I can control my diabetes with no meds at all and I stated off with blood glucose levels of 29 mmol/L and was put straight onto metformin Insulin injections! Im now 8 years down the road and med free with non diabetic bg levels, not everyone can or will achieve this but a reduction in the carbs in your diet will make a lot more difference than metformin.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Good luck</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sid Bonkers, post: 1391523, member: 19121"] Hi [SIZE=4][B]pasiphae1953[/B], good luck for your gp appointment on the 27th, there are many diabetic drugs that can be prescribed instead of metformin which many have problems with and some like yourself just cant take due to diarrhoea and sickness problems. Metformin is also not very effective at lowering blood glucose (bg) levels in fact the highest recommended level will only drop bg levels by between 1 or 2 points, far more effective is changing your eating habits and all you may need to do is reduce the amounts of carbohydrates you eat like cutting back on potato, rice, pasta and bread especially white and wholemeal breads as it is the carbohydrates in our diets that causes the high bg levels. There is a moderator who normally posts to new members a brief introduction to diabetic control that you will hopefully find informative and enlightening, you can find it by following this link, just click on it [URL]http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/basic-information-for-newly-diagnosed-diabetics.17088/[/URL] I find that just by reducing the carbs in my diet I can control my diabetes with no meds at all and I stated off with blood glucose levels of 29 mmol/L and was put straight onto metformin Insulin injections! Im now 8 years down the road and med free with non diabetic bg levels, not everyone can or will achieve this but a reduction in the carbs in your diet will make a lot more difference than metformin. Good luck[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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