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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rayq81" data-source="post: 2687719" data-attributes="member: 582036">At my last blood test I wrote a post on here that my hba1c had come down to 41 from 65, a few weeks ago I had a call from the hospital consultant who had a chat to me and he was surprised that I was managing without insulin, he then told me he would speak to my GP and try reducing my Metformin to see what effect this would have.I was taking 2 tablets at breakfast and 2 with my evening meal and my GP told me to try going to 1 tablet morning and 1 in the afternoon but to monitor closely and report any big spikes through the day.Initially it did go up a little bit overall and my range dropped from 95% to 89%, however I increased my exercise regime and any meal that sends my Libra reading over 11.5 I get on the treadmill for 10-20 minutes which always gets it back in range, I am now back over 90% in range and it seems to be steady for the time being, I have not got to 15 at any point on the Libra in 7 months.Has anyone else been in this situation where the original diagnosis was looking really bad but has improved to the point that diet and exercise is controlling this type of diabetes with just 2 Metformin a day ? Am I being too optimistic to think I may not need insulin long term or is this just me thinking I can beat the unbeatable.My antibodies have also shown a big improvement over the 2 tests and although gad 65 is still reading it's not where it was last year when I was first tested.</blockquote>

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