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Anyone with Type 2 stopped taking insulin and returned to Metformin? Can I ask how it affected you and were you able to remain on the tablets? Many thanks.

My husband (type 2,on Novomix 30, does 28 morning and evening) is having more hypos and is very shaky at many times in the day. He was most unwell this morning, 2 hours after breakfast so he took an extra BG reading and it was 3.5. Out came the glucose tablets. He felt the same in the afternoon...

My husband is now on insulin instead of Metformin and very unhappy about it! (He has type 2 and his levels only rose dramatically as he was hospitalized with a kidney infection and we believe it was the infection that highered the BG? Now a month later he is on Novamix 30. His levels are now...

My husband is the diabetic, not myself but he does not go on the internet. He is Type 2, was on Metformin until recently when he had kidney infection that shot his blood sugar levels up sky high and he was put on insulin in hospital (10 days). He now home since a few days...has told me of...

My husband,a diabetic for many years has always controlled his diabetes fairly well on Metformin. A hospital stay with an infection raised his readings a lot so he was put on insulin. :crazy: He is determined to get back on Metformin but how likely is this. How many of you with Type 2 have...

I am not a diabetic!! However, my husband is and as I am the one who mostly goes on the internet, I hope you will forgive me asking questions? :shock: He has been diabetic for many years but recently developed an infection (kidney) and was eventually rushed to hospital for 10 days. He was on...