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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HSSS" data-source="post: 2585084" data-attributes="member: 480869">My point was that with sglt2 you don’t need a high glucose reading when low carbing to get dka. However as they very obviously don’t suit you anyway that should change when you see the nurse.So 60-100g a day still leave a fair amount of scope to reduce levels still further. The rises of 3 or 4 mol after meals show me you are eating more carbs that your body is coping with in a normal amount of time. This alone will cause slow deterioration whether you rely on diet alone or do it with the help of medication.Glic causes you to make more insulin and in type 2 that just adds to insulin resistance even whilst apparently working to reduce glucose for now. And even more insulin doesn’t help lose weight either as excess insulin is a fat storage hormone as one of its functions.  So no surprise weight wasn’t helped by it. You mention elsewhere you dropped a significant amount of hba1c when diagnosed.  Was this low carb alone or with meds? Although you weren’t losing weight on glic how was the bgl control? When did that slip?  How long ago did you swap from that to forxagia.  I suspect increasing insulin resistance but it is a remote possibility if things keep deteriorating that you could be LADA, with the excess weight as a red herring</blockquote>

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