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Week 7 following diagnosis. Follow up with GP. Upped my metformin to 2 * 1,000mg AND eliminated one hypertension medication [indapamide], reduced the other two by half [perindopril / amlodipine] - with the plan to eliminate altogether if my BP remains steady. And it has for three days! Weight...

Another two weeks on this journey. As a consequence of weight loss, low carbs and metformin my BP is around 98/65. On occasion getting dizzy. I'm going to ask my doctor if I can reduce/stop my hypertension meds. Weight loss has flattened. FBG stuck at 139 while evening pre-dinner at 134...

Readings continue to stay around the same. Fasting glucose today was 142. So directionally good. BMI is 25.2 Strange thing is my BG will be around 150 before dinner then two hours after a meal [steak] it dropped to 130 - and then the fasting glucose today is 142. Thats the second time this week.

So, I was losing weight since March this year and having problems with my feet beyond plantar fasciitis. Went to see a doctor at the end of August for the first time in 3 years, blood test with fasting BG over 300. Diagnosed type 2, initial medication 2 * 850mg metformin daily. After 2 weeks...

Hi, my name is Stephen, I'm on the edge of 65 and male. I am British although spent 40 years in Asia. I now live in Spain. Not religious although searching for something to believe in. I'm serious, cryptic while fun-loving I have a 1-year old dog Kenzo. He's a Shiba Inu - and a rescue cat Kimi...