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<blockquote data-quote="TriciaWs" data-source="post: 1879385" data-attributes="member: 475901"><p>I am surprised they just dumped you on that much Metformin, without, it appears, any decent follow-up.</p><p></p><p>For me, being pre-diabetic would mean that I'd prefer to change my diet rather than go on Metformin. When I was told I was pre-diabetic a few years ago there was no question of any drugs, just (very poor) advice about cutting down on sugar. And a suggestion that I should lose weight ... when I asked if I could have help with this as I knew I had an eating issue, my then GP said he didn't think it was helpful to use labels.</p><p>I cut out sugar for a few months, and (as I now know) went into remission for a while.</p><p></p><p>And then back to my old eating habits ...</p><p>So I'm now diabetic ... but thing have changed a little for the better. I'd discovered the lowcarb programme and told them I wanted to try that instead of dreugs and my GP was happy to let me try for 4-6 months before looking again at the drugs (well my GP was, the DN said she was surprised he hadn't given me Metformin and was about to flag it up until I refused), </p><p>and I got a referral to IAPT to talk about my relationship with food.</p><p>I'm back in remission, but know sugar will always be my enemy so I'm still on lowcarb and I still test every week..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TriciaWs, post: 1879385, member: 475901"] I am surprised they just dumped you on that much Metformin, without, it appears, any decent follow-up. For me, being pre-diabetic would mean that I'd prefer to change my diet rather than go on Metformin. When I was told I was pre-diabetic a few years ago there was no question of any drugs, just (very poor) advice about cutting down on sugar. And a suggestion that I should lose weight ... when I asked if I could have help with this as I knew I had an eating issue, my then GP said he didn't think it was helpful to use labels. I cut out sugar for a few months, and (as I now know) went into remission for a while. And then back to my old eating habits ... So I'm now diabetic ... but thing have changed a little for the better. I'd discovered the lowcarb programme and told them I wanted to try that instead of dreugs and my GP was happy to let me try for 4-6 months before looking again at the drugs (well my GP was, the DN said she was surprised he hadn't given me Metformin and was about to flag it up until I refused), and I got a referral to IAPT to talk about my relationship with food. I'm back in remission, but know sugar will always be my enemy so I'm still on lowcarb and I still test every week.. [/QUOTE]
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