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<blockquote data-quote="Freema" data-source="post: 1312502" data-attributes="member: 329519"><p>a lot of people in here are not using metformin and control their blood glucose by diet and excercise alone... wow</p><p></p><p>I was put on metformin right from the start but didn´t actually know anything about anything about diabetes type 2 except from that it had something to do with sugar which diabetics could not eat ....</p><p></p><p>now I think I have managed to get my number in control into the non-diabetic area... but now wonder is metformin doing its job , and how much does metformin in fact help lowering peoples blood glucose...</p><p></p><p>do any of you know more of how much in general metformin does help lowering blood glucose ?</p><p>I just read this study : <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9428832" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9428832</a></p><p><a href="http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/35/2/446" target="_blank">http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/35/2/446</a></p><p></p><p>but as I read it it seems metformin only lowers blood glucose like something in between 0.6% and 2.0% and in my eyes that is yes ridiculously little... like if one had a raise of blood glucose of 100mmol it would only lower the number by 2.0% and that would leave the person with a number of at least 98mmol then...</p><p></p><p>did I totally misunderstand the results here ... hope so but I am not that clever in reading Scientific texts...</p><p>what do you know of this ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Freema, post: 1312502, member: 329519"] a lot of people in here are not using metformin and control their blood glucose by diet and excercise alone... wow I was put on metformin right from the start but didn´t actually know anything about anything about diabetes type 2 except from that it had something to do with sugar which diabetics could not eat .... now I think I have managed to get my number in control into the non-diabetic area... but now wonder is metformin doing its job , and how much does metformin in fact help lowering peoples blood glucose... do any of you know more of how much in general metformin does help lowering blood glucose ? I just read this study : [URL]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9428832[/URL] [URL]http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/35/2/446[/URL] but as I read it it seems metformin only lowers blood glucose like something in between 0.6% and 2.0% and in my eyes that is yes ridiculously little... like if one had a raise of blood glucose of 100mmol it would only lower the number by 2.0% and that would leave the person with a number of at least 98mmol then... did I totally misunderstand the results here ... hope so but I am not that clever in reading Scientific texts... what do you know of this ? [/QUOTE]
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