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<blockquote data-quote="finzi1966" data-source="post: 2509645" data-attributes="member: 548675"><p>My reply: It doesn’t work that way as in “lowering your blood sugar when you take a tablet”. There are drugs that do that: gliclazide springs to mind - it makes the pancreas produce insulin. Or insulin itself, of course. Metformin works on your longer term glucose metabolism, to reduce the production of glucose by the liver, and to improve insulin resistance in the cells. I don’t actually take metformin with meals at all, it’s more convenient for me to take it first thing in the morning and last thing at night before bed. Fortunately it causes me no gastric side effects. </p><p></p><p>Your user name suggests you may be carrying some excess weight? Have you lost some weight already maybe? That could explain improving figures. For me I am pretty sure it was the weight loss that made a big difference (which was achieved through a LCHF diet). I am assuming that it has improved my insulin resistance a lot, and also that my pancreas is probably more efficient as there is less visceral fat clogging it up. I still have weight to lose. My HbA1C is 35, but I don’t consider myself in remission because I am on medication. I do consider myself to be well-controlled, though. What I have to watch out for now is “carb-creep”.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="finzi1966, post: 2509645, member: 548675"] My reply: It doesn’t work that way as in “lowering your blood sugar when you take a tablet”. There are drugs that do that: gliclazide springs to mind - it makes the pancreas produce insulin. Or insulin itself, of course. Metformin works on your longer term glucose metabolism, to reduce the production of glucose by the liver, and to improve insulin resistance in the cells. I don’t actually take metformin with meals at all, it’s more convenient for me to take it first thing in the morning and last thing at night before bed. Fortunately it causes me no gastric side effects. Your user name suggests you may be carrying some excess weight? Have you lost some weight already maybe? That could explain improving figures. For me I am pretty sure it was the weight loss that made a big difference (which was achieved through a LCHF diet). I am assuming that it has improved my insulin resistance a lot, and also that my pancreas is probably more efficient as there is less visceral fat clogging it up. I still have weight to lose. My HbA1C is 35, but I don’t consider myself in remission because I am on medication. I do consider myself to be well-controlled, though. What I have to watch out for now is “carb-creep”. [/QUOTE]
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