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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HpprKM" data-source="post: 183013" data-attributes="member: 14660">Re: DR advised once diagnosed can never come off metformin??I have been on Metformin since October last year, I started on 1 a day, my GP upped my dose to two a day because (although my blood sugar was 6.9) she felt it was going up rather than down.  Latest hospital check reveals it to be 6.7, however, I am losing weight.  Never have been overweight and often wondered why I did not fit into the typically portrayed idea of a T2, but having gone from size 14 (I probably weighed more around diagnosis in 2007, than ever before at around 9 and a half stone), to size 12 - even they are lose on me, and weighing around 8. 12 fully clothed. Can Metformin cause weight loss?  Many of the things I am reading here lead me to think that is one of the reasons that it is given - surely that cannot be right?  Perhaps I need to go back down to one a day, and wondering if I should approach my GP re this.</blockquote>

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