Hi everyone,
So I spoke to my DN today after getting my HBA1C result yesterday of 36. She was delighted with the result and genuinely interested about how I'd done it which surprised me (incidentally it was following a low carb diet (although still eating around 100 grams of carbs per day, only eating 2 meals per day 4 days a week and fasting for at least 15 hours during the night 4 days a week). I've been taking 1 500mg Metformin a day since being diagnosed in Nov/20 and DN wants me to stop taking this as of now and get another HBA1C test done in 3 months time. Is it normal for me to feel nervous about doing this, I guess I've come to think of the metformin as a sort of crutch helping me with the T2 diabetes and I'm scared that if I stop it my next results may not be so good especially as I do eat quite a bit more carbs than others on the site. Does anyone have any experience of this, what I can realistically expect and any advice on how to keep it as low as I possibly can without going super low carb because that wouldn't be sustainable for me, just being super honest. I'm really hoping the weight loss will help me, I've already lost 38 pounds and have at least another 2 stone to lose to get to my goal weight. I understand why she's telling me to stop the medication, just not sure if it's too soon? Thanks.
Maggie
So I spoke to my DN today after getting my HBA1C result yesterday of 36. She was delighted with the result and genuinely interested about how I'd done it which surprised me (incidentally it was following a low carb diet (although still eating around 100 grams of carbs per day, only eating 2 meals per day 4 days a week and fasting for at least 15 hours during the night 4 days a week). I've been taking 1 500mg Metformin a day since being diagnosed in Nov/20 and DN wants me to stop taking this as of now and get another HBA1C test done in 3 months time. Is it normal for me to feel nervous about doing this, I guess I've come to think of the metformin as a sort of crutch helping me with the T2 diabetes and I'm scared that if I stop it my next results may not be so good especially as I do eat quite a bit more carbs than others on the site. Does anyone have any experience of this, what I can realistically expect and any advice on how to keep it as low as I possibly can without going super low carb because that wouldn't be sustainable for me, just being super honest. I'm really hoping the weight loss will help me, I've already lost 38 pounds and have at least another 2 stone to lose to get to my goal weight. I understand why she's telling me to stop the medication, just not sure if it's too soon? Thanks.
Maggie