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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glink" data-source="post: 1160761" data-attributes="member: 254742">Sorry- I've edited my original post to indicate that I do have a metre and have been testing some (although I think if I want to keep this up I may need to pay for strips out of pocket soon). I tested a lot at first, then stopped for a while because there seemed to be nothing I could do about bad #s so it was just stressing me out. I go back to the doctor in a month, so I tested again yesterday and today to see how the increased metformin was working...still prediabetes, it seems.I'm not sure if my metformin prescription is off label or not. They gave it to me as my #s were slowly creeping up even though I have literally zero risk factors (in my 30s, no history of gestational diabetes, etc.), was already biking and weight lifting (no reasonable way to increase exercise), and went from regular-thin to quite thin on a very strict low carb (but not low calorie) diet. Since nothing else was working and I was starting to have diabetic-level fasting #s on my home test, and my A1C was creeping up too, my GP said we'd try some medication. I think it has helped, especially with the fasting #s, which I just could not budge any other way. But nothing has been able to "reverse" things, and I have a lingering concern that this is not the full story. FWIW, I had tons of classic diabetes symptoms when diagnosed (ploydipsia, polyuria, swelling feet and hands, blurred vision, moods), which return if my sugars get high, and I've had some diabetes associated conditions (frozen shoulder, foot numbness) in the past year as well.Guess I'm just not sure what, if anything, I should be doing/monitoring differently given that LADA has been raised as a definite possibility for what's going on with me.</blockquote>

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