You will need to increase good fats in your diet or you will feel hungry if not on Metformin.Diabetes for one month but probably all my life, I walk a lot and this has masked the problem. I have been on very low cabs for a month as my experience of metformin wasn't good. After a month I tried it again but had to reduce the dose to one quarter of prescribed and it was still intolerable.Absolute starving feeling to the point of painful stomach that never went away, cystitis which I didn't have without M, feel like I'm about to collapse with no sugar left but the meter tells me 6mmol/l.
Diabetes for one month but probably all my life, I walk a lot and this has masked the problem. I have been on very low cabs for a month as my experience of metformin wasn't good. After a month I tried it again but had to reduce the dose to one quarter of prescribed and it was still intolerable.Absolute starving feeling to the point of painful stomach that never went away, cystitis which I didn't have without M, feel like I'm about to collapse with no sugar left but the meter tells me 6mmol/l.
Maybe it's the Extended/Sustained Release version?What is the new type of Metformin called! Is it available in the U.K., do you know?
Good morning spendercat. The leaflet says: GLUCOPHAGE SR 500 mg Prolonged release tablets. Metformin hydrochloride. The manufacturer is: Merch Serono. I can ONLY get these in the UK. I have found no side effects with them. They are supposed to be for Diabetic who are NOT Insulin dependent - BUT my Diabetic Nurse prescribed them for me even though I AM Insulin dependent. They have REDUCED my Insulin needs morning and evening by about 30%.What is the new type of Metformin called! Is it available in the U.K., do you know?
Diabetes for one month but probably all my life, I walk a lot and this has masked the problem. I have been on very low cabs for a month as my experience of metformin wasn't good. After a month I tried it again but had to reduce the dose to one quarter of prescribed and it was still intolerable.Absolute starving feeling to the point of painful stomach that never went away, cystitis which I didn't have without M, feel like I'm about to collapse with no sugar left but the meter tells me 6mmol/l.
Hi pleinster. When it comes to counting carbs I must confess to being totally lazy in this respect. I have NEVER counted carbs - and I wouldn't know where to start. When I return to the UK in January I plan to try and cut out carbs all together and just eat high fat foods. Others on this Forum say it works, so I will give it a try. Will you come to my funeral?Hi. If you are not doing so already, I would suggest recording readings before and 2.5 hours after all food (recording also the food and its carb content), as well as recording when you take your meds and what readings you get there too. It was by doing so that I gradually saw patterns emerge, stopped my meds and worked on reducing carbs as much as I could. I advised my doctor and was supported because I could show results and my records. Good luck.
Hi pleinster. When it comes to counting carbs I must confess to being totally lazy in this respect. I have NEVER counted carbs - and I wouldn't know where to start. When I return to the UK in January I plan to try and cut out carbs all together and just eat high fat foods. Others on this Forum say it works, so I will give it a try. Will you come to my funeral?
Carb counting is more straightforward than you may think. It's almost impossible to cut all carbs (unless you eat only meat..and some do, very successfully), but all you need to do really is check labels - the carbohydrate content is as important as the sugar content because carbs effectively change to glucose in the blood. Basically, "low carb" is anything around 10g or less per 100g of product. I try sticking to that as much as I can. I was concerned about reducing carbs dramatically before I tried it an got informed. The human body does not need carbohydrates to function, and many now see Type 2 diabetes as a kind of carbohydrate intolerance. Bottom line - there is no such ting as a carbohydrate deficiency. My doctors are entirely comfortable with my low carb diet. As for your funeral...hopefully that's along way off and due to something other than carb cutting or even diabetes. I might come...will there be sticky buns?
This is what I take now. Doesn't make me feel half as rotten as the other brands I have taken. Not sure why?!Just the same I've got it just goes by a different supplier name
Hello again pleinster. As to my funeral I'm afraid that I shall not be in charge of the menu. As to carb labeling, I have never seen potatoes with a carb label. I eat whatever my wife serves up and she is not Diabetic. I just see the finished cooked product on my plate and they taste delicious. But when I return to the UK in January I intend to try and persuade her to serve me bacon & eggs, ham, lamb shanks, beef, salmon, cheese, butter, full cream milk, and nuts How she is going to get all of that on one plate I don't know.
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