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Week 6 Day 42 Sunday 21st January. FBG 5.8 Weight 99.5kg Yoyo on the weight still and the blood is a little higher than I'd like but not really a problem. Today completes the sixth week. I'll continue up to the end of week nine and then think about the next stage. I still have a lot of weight...

Week 6 Day 41 Saturday 20th January. FBG 5.8 Weight 98.4kg Reasonable numbers again with the weight clearly on a downward trend overall so that's fine. At this rate I might just manage 10kg weight loss in the eight weeks, though it stalled after the first week until the insulin came down. I...

Week 6 Day 40 Friday 19th January. FBG 5.3 Weight 99.2kg Blood is good but the weight is doing something of a yoyo. Just have to sit it out. I think the rolling average is coming down but I'm not worrying too much about it. It'll be six weeks in a couple of days so this is a sort of home...

Good for you. You already have a good track record of making serious improvements so I reckon, once you're in your stride, it'll be fairly straightforward. First few days for me were the ones with a few minor hunger pangs but they passed very quickly. I tried to think of the ND more as a...

Week 6 Day 39 Thursday 18th January. FBG 4.8 Weight 98.1kg Nice numbers today, weight is inching down and blood level is very stable. So just sticking to the plan. If this progress continues, I might simply leave reducing the meds until I see consistently low 4s. I'll see my GP in a few weeks...

Week 6 Day 38 Wednesday 17th January. FBG 5.5 Weight 98.8kg Good blood level and a slight drop in weight. Plenty of energy today. I can almost touch the 96kg, so perhaps I might even get down to 90 by week 9. It doesn't really matter how fast it's coming down as long as it is. I feel better and...

Week 6 Day 37 Tuesday 16th January. FBG 4.7 Weight 99.2kg Very pleased with the BG. If the weight doesn't start to inch down later in the week and the BG level stays down, I'll consider adjusting the meds again, but this time much more slowly and more cautiously. I'll be seeing my GP in a few...

Should probably also have noted that my gut has dropped by five inches and I'm getting some feeling back in my toes and the balls of my feet. I can now tell when they're touched. That hasn't happened in a long while. They're still tingly but since I've had some difficulty with balance in the...

Week 6 Day 36 Monday 15th January. FBG 5.1 Weight 99.2kg Start of week 6 and the blood sugar is clearly back on track again after going for a bit of a wander and the weight is starting to inch down as well. Both good signs. I could eat a horse today... But won't. We're going to be out and busy...

Week 5 Day 35 Sunday 14th January. FBG 5.7 Weight 99.8kg Blood sugar is back on track again so that's pleasing but at end of week 5 I still have very little weight loss to show which is a bit disappointing since for the last few days I've been closer to 700 with just two shakes and a small...

I found this one: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/community-ethos-forum-rules.50278/

I can see it might be a difficult line we're treading here because we're following a diet which has medical implications and it's important that no-one takes our own accounts as in any way a medical recommendation or a suggestion for particular self-treatment. We absolutely can't recommend a...

Thanks @AdamJames for your thoughtful comments. I think I've commented before that the reason given by the researchers for taking people off all meds at the start of the trial is that if they hadn't, there would have been no way of knowing they could trust their trial results since any or all of...

Week 5 Day 34 Saturday 13th January. FBG 9.1 Weight 98.8kg Getting back under control now. The numbers are coming down again so it's all good. As they continue to fall, I'll very gradually reduce the meds again but this time I'll be a bit more cautious. For now, I'm taking 35 units of...

Week 5 Day 33 Friday 12th January, FBG 9.3 Weight 99.7kg The insulin is bringing the glucose down but not by enough yet so I've increased the dose to 35 units. It seems to be something of a juggling act at present. I can tolerate the BG raised a little if there's weight loss but insulin is...

Yes, I agree, the effect on the body overall, and the condition of diabetes will change over time given a constant presence of metformin. The balances will be different. The impact on the liver is pretty quick but the overall changes in the liver and the consequence for diabetes management...

Yes, I've seen reports from people who say metformin affects them differently but as with all anecdotal evidence, it depends on circumstances, lots of other factors. I think all drugs are very odd in some respect or other - pharmacokinetics is a complicated business. Half-life doesn't mean that...

No, nothing else at all. I think it was just a case of being too optimistic about the recovery of the pancreas. It's going to take a bit longer to see the sort of improvements that Taylor and Fung talk about. And that's fair enough. Both of them said this was possible, even likely.

In fact metformin takes effect very quickly, typically within a few hours. It's actually eliminated from the body fairly quickly too, within six hours or so. It's not metabolised into anything, just straight excreted and it doesn't accumulate in the body at all. Any that you take last thing at...

Week 5 Day 32 Thursday 11th January. FBG 9.8 Weight 99.8kg Another high FBG so I took 25 units of insulin this morning. After five days, I needed to take some action about it. There's an argument that says carrying on with no insulin and being patient will bring the numbers down but that rests...