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Hi everyone, just got the letter my consultant sent my GP, he stated in it that in my case he believes complete eradication is possible.

He also reccomended that I be off the Metformin within the month.

Anyone have any idea what this means, and more importantly if it means what I think it does and what it so obviously implies?

Am I right too be excited by this?
 
Hi BPM congratulations for getting your bg levels down to such levels that you are coming off metformin
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Eradication is a strange word to use, I suspect that your specialist is referring to the eradication of your symptoms as at present there is no known cure for diabetes, you can be a well controlled diabetic but it will be there in the background and can reappear if your control should slip.

Keep up your excellent control and all should be well :D
 
I was told by my Doctor that as my HbA1c was now 4.5% that I could consider myself "cured".
This was nearly 9 years ago. I have progressed to the stage where I am on Metformin and once more my A1c is down to 5%.

So was I cured as a result of my efforts to keep my Bgs down? Of course not. We all know that a cure is a long way off, what your Doc. (and no doubt mine) means it that you have achieved a near normal A1c by the actions you have taken to keep your BGs down.

I think a better word would be "remission" or maybe "controlled", but it all amounts to the same thing,
T2 is progressive, everyone progresses at a different rate, tight control with low BGs is a good place to be, and who knows, you might manage to stay as you are for many years.

But if you don't keep trying then you might not.

Or like me even while still trying you might find your BGs slowly climbing.

Who was it who said "Lifes a *****, and then you die"?

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The terminology I found very strange - I mean the use of the word eradication is a strange choice, like the previous poster said, 'well controlled' 'remission' yes I would accept but 'eradication', in any other context that too me implies 'got rid of' 'no longer there' - I'm at a bit of a loss with all this.

I know this is an incurable disease and it is with me for life and what have you - surely the doctor would not use such terminology.

I do not believe it is fair on me to give such false hope, it is unprofessional and at the end of the day it is just plain wrong.

Or perhaps I am a medical marvel :wink: ?

Any thoughts?
 
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