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<blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2706073" data-attributes="member: 517579">Hi and welcome. Metformin affects your liver. Basically it interferes with your liver&#039;s ability to top up blood glucose, a thing it does constantly, naturally, and it&#039;s needed. Just maybe not quite so much glucose as the liver currently thinks you need. So the readings you&#039;re seeing when you haven&#039;t eaten - the &quot;fasted&quot; readings - are caused by what your liver&#039;s doing.&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing your doctor might be thinking along the same lines, and hoping that the met will ratchet down some of the liver&#039;s glucose production.&nbsp; That can take a bit of time, sometimes.As others have said, it might help if you set out an idea of what you usually eat - it&#039;s often the case that carbs are present in things you wouldn&#039;t immediately think of, or in things that are pushed at us as being &quot;healthy&quot; - they&#039;re often far from it.[edited for speling]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KennyA, post: 2706073, member: 517579"] Hi and welcome. Metformin affects your liver. Basically it interferes with your liver's ability to top up blood glucose, a thing it does constantly, naturally, and it's needed. Just maybe not quite so much glucose as the liver currently thinks you need. So the readings you're seeing when you haven't eaten - the "fasted" readings - are caused by what your liver's doing. I'm guessing your doctor might be thinking along the same lines, and hoping that the met will ratchet down some of the liver's glucose production. That can take a bit of time, sometimes. As others have said, it might help if you set out an idea of what you usually eat - it's often the case that carbs are present in things you wouldn't immediately think of, or in things that are pushed at us as being "healthy" - they're often far from it. [edited for speling] [/QUOTE]

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