Recent Content by Mikeee

Not good for me 77 %. I have had cold and flu since Christmas and I've not been very active. Docs want me to double up on the metformin. Ive started back at the gym and hoping to get my levels down now I'm more active.

How long were you taking them for ?

Still taking the tabs and my headache has gone, think it must of been a coincidence.

I've been taking two slow release metformin for over 1 week and have had a headache every day since taking the meds. Is this a common side effect? Or perhaps it's a coincidence ! Cheers mikeee

Intereting, I'll make a new thread to see if anyone else is having the same. I'm going to struggle at work if headaches are a side effect of Metformin.

Are headaches a side effect of Metformin ? I've had one most days this week.

11 this morning

A day of 1 egg for breakfast chicken casserole for lunch and a brisk workout at the gym has got my BG levels down to 6.9. Onwards and upwards !

Do you have a balls to set him straight the next time you see your Doctor......sorry perhaps just politely point out your rise in Hba1c coincided with the dropping of test strips being on prescription............:woot: It was a doctor that cancelled my repeat prescription for the test strips...

All sounding very interesting, quite a few medical facts there that I was unaware of too. I've downloaded an app onto my phone and started logging my BG levels, eating and drinking habits etc. The app gives an estimated hba1c too. Fully appreciate the help and advice, I feel focused and will do...

I will take a look on the play store slaxx.

Do you know if any of the available apps are ok for keeping a track of things ?

My hba1c was at 82, which I was told by the nurse is well into the danger zone.

Thanks for the input everyone very much appreciated. I now have a monitor, tested my sugars this morning before food and was at 11.5. I've just started taking the 2nd metformin with my evening meal, sticking to exercise and a low carb diet, hopefully my BS levels will improve.

I think I may be eating slightly more carbs than when I got my levels down a couple of years ago. I was taking my pilots license and it was the doctor that did my medical that advised me to drop the carbs.