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Thanks so much everyone. My GP has just upped my Metformin to 1000 mg twice a day. Kept my Gliclazide at 40mg with breakfast. I am going to have another set of blood tests done in a month to see if my HBA1C has come down and to look at the cholesterol results again. She has told me do do...

Hi, yes I am overweight. I am 5'4" and 16 stones. If I had a fatty liver, wouldn't my liver function test have come up abnormal?

Ok I am going to fast for my next one

Hi, so these are my full results: Total cholesterol: 6.1 HDL cholesterol: 0.9 Triglycerides: 3.2 Cholesterol/HDL ratio: 6.8 Calculated LDL cholesterol lev: 3.8

Thanks, fasting was never mentioned to me by the GP. This might be a dumb question, but wouldn't fasting skew the results? Or is that what I want- to see what the result is without any interference?

What would it mean if that were the case?

No, it wasn't a fasted blood test. But I can't remember if I had breakfast before I went. I would have for sure had coffee with cream.

Hi, Background: HBA1C last Autumn was 70. No-one at the doctor's picked up on it. They asked me to retake the test in February and it had rose to 84. I was put on Metformin (500mg 3Xday) and I started a Keto diet and within days my readings had come down to 'normal' i.e. in the 5's. I have to...