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This has happened to me, I have been on Metformin slow release 500 x 2 daily for about a year, about a month ago I started with the same pains as you describe, night time is awful, no sleep and constant pain, knees hips and back. As I also suffer from Fibromyalgia, and certain drugs will give me...

The reason that the insulin rises is to try to help the glucose enter the cells, but as it meets resistance then it increases once more, insulin resistance develops, so lowering the blood sugar is the aim.

Some people think that Type 2 is caused by too high insulin production, and that treatment is to reduce that and increase glucose levels, in fact it is either that the body is not taking up the insulin and has become resistant to it, or that not enough is being produced. Type 2 is a lifestyle...

I find that some of the information posted on here is inaccurate regarding Type 2 there is a lot of misunderstanding regarding the bodys production of insulin and its take up, also regarding blood sugars. As a retired health professional I urge people to research how this works, rather than...