Hi ickihun . Your case could be one where an early diagnosis could have caught your diabetes before you started putting on weight
Hope all is well now and how is your weight going if OK to ask
Clive
Sorry Clive I've just spotted your reply.
I've lost weight in the past by starvation. Herbalife milk shakes or under counter appetite suppressants. Excessive exercise at one point too. I've got 3 stone lighter but never stayed off.
I'm doing lchf and sugars are good with very slow fluculating weight gain/loss. Not sure how much resistance I have due to the underactive thyroid.
A professor in St Thomas's hospital London allowed me to be 15 and a half stone to go on his ivf programme. Metformin trials helped me at the time with appetite suppressants which both got stopped a month before hand. Hence I added 2 stone throughout cycle and it failed.
Metformin for pcos not diabetes. Some might argue that that treatment disguised diabetes. I was never tested for diabetes til I changed gp practice.
Going on Insulin this year added only 6lb due to implementing lchf diet at the same time.
I was taking nearly 140units of insulin per day now 64units at mo. Due to canagliflozin 100mgs to help and perfecting the lchf diet.
I've since lost the gained 6lb and just a few more. However Rome wasn't built in a day!