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<blockquote data-quote="Art Of Flowers" data-source="post: 1469065" data-attributes="member: 375067"><p>What was your blood sugar levels at diagnosis, and what were they when you last saw your diabetes nurse?</p><p></p><p>Metformin lowers blood sugars a very small amount compared to a LCHF diet. The LCHF diet is about 5 times more effective than Metformin in reducing blood sugar. So, provided you are on a low carb diet, you wont see much difference to your blood sugars if you stop taking Metformin because you are getting severe side effects from taking it.</p><p></p><p>You need to get a blood glucose meter and test regularly to see how your blood sugars are going. At diagnosis my fasting blood glucoses level was 13.1. Five weeks later it dropped to 9.8 and it drooped further down to 6.2 after a few more weeks after I started the LCHF diet. Most of this drop in blood sugar was due to reducing carbs in my diet rather than Metformin. Since February I have reduced the amount of Metformin I take, but my blood sugars have continued to decline as I have further reduced the amount of carbs I eat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Art Of Flowers, post: 1469065, member: 375067"] What was your blood sugar levels at diagnosis, and what were they when you last saw your diabetes nurse? Metformin lowers blood sugars a very small amount compared to a LCHF diet. The LCHF diet is about 5 times more effective than Metformin in reducing blood sugar. So, provided you are on a low carb diet, you wont see much difference to your blood sugars if you stop taking Metformin because you are getting severe side effects from taking it. You need to get a blood glucose meter and test regularly to see how your blood sugars are going. At diagnosis my fasting blood glucoses level was 13.1. Five weeks later it dropped to 9.8 and it drooped further down to 6.2 after a few more weeks after I started the LCHF diet. Most of this drop in blood sugar was due to reducing carbs in my diet rather than Metformin. Since February I have reduced the amount of Metformin I take, but my blood sugars have continued to decline as I have further reduced the amount of carbs I eat. [/QUOTE]
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