first tests for a while...

I had to stop my Metformin ( 2 x 25omg per day) due to having a couple of x-ray exams with contrast scheduled, so thought I'd stay off for a while longer to see the results.

Almost a month since last dose, fasting every day this week, 4.4 to 4.7 every day. Before lunch and before dinner always (!) 4.7.

After dinner last night:, 30 mins, 6.6, 1 hour, 6.1 and after 2 hours, 5.1 - 2.5 hours and back to 4.7

I suspect that losing 7 and a half stone of flab and exercising more has done most of the good, but I'm sure the Met played its part in improving insulin resistance as well.

Going to go back on the Met as a precaution - I do hope it is faster to aclimatize than the first time around....

Mark

Thanks for your kind and supportive comments!

I feel very lucky to have caught this disease so early, while still pre-diabetic.

Over a year later, my A1c, fasting and postprandial readings are now normal - as was an OGTT.

So, weightloss, exercise and a low carb lifestyle, with a very low dose of Met (also some supplements, of unknown benefit), *can* reverse prediabetes back to normal levels, as some of the studies say. Maybe it is only temporary (in which case, I've had a 'free' year of normality), maybe it only delays the inevitable (likewise).

Since my numbers continue to improve (though now quite slowly and in small amounts) I feel my chances are reasonably good that I've won myself a decent period of reprieve, at the least.

Essentially, I suppose I am now a latent pre-diabetic, in that if I were foolish enough to go back to my old ways, my numbers would start to go haywire again - I've been fortunate the first time, I have no intention of trying my luck a second time...

Reading on various forums, it seems that GPs, in general, will not acknowledge that patients can achieve - or maintain - substantial weightloss, so don't seem to advise their overweight (pre-)diabetic patients of the potential benefits, instead just doling out the pills and advising a high carb diet...

I was a real slob, so if I can do it, anyone can!

Now that my run of x-ray appointments are gone (all clear, too!) I'm free to restart the Met, though my GP has left the decision to me - not wanting to mess with a winning comnination, I've restarted today.

No stomach rumbling so far....

Mark