Diabetes and Gallstones

[mole147]

I was diagnosed with type 2 in June 2013 and was started on 80mg of Gliclazide a day but my DN does not like Glic and started me on Metformin 500mg a day and then increasing the dose gradually, I have had the trots but it is not too bad, I will keep at that dose until it hopefully settles down then increase. I have had some health problems culminating in a hernia repair surgical wound infection lasting 13 weeks. It still has not healed because they are keeping it open to heal from inside, my surgeon suspected a sinus in the wound so I had an MRI scan. When he telephoned me the results, he was pleased with wound and casually dropped the bombshell that they had found gallstones and told me not to worry about it as many people my age (61) had them and they did not cause a problem. Of course it has scared me because my Wife had her gallbladder removed 10 years ago and if she eats anything with any fat in it in the morning she is running to the loo. I need to lose some weight about 4 stone and I am determined to do it but after some research on gallstones it is not recommended to lose weight quickly as it can cause them. Now I don`t know what to do, I know I could lose the weight slowly but I really want to get my diabetes under control as quickly as possible. I remember when my Wife had gallstone attacks, they were awful, searing pain and continual vomiting, after one episode it looked like she had gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson, black eyes and everything else. I feel like I am now living with 2 time bombs inside me. I was just wondering whether anyone else have had anything like this. My fasting BG is around 6.3, hba1c test was 6.2 but that was with the infection, cholesterol 3.8, I think they are reasonably good figures.