Metformin for high blood sugar and yeast

Welcome here.

You might be "jumping the gun" a bit. Yes some of your blood sugars are a bit high, and yes eating sugar (or any other high carbohydrate food) will raise blood sugars in both "normal" and diabetics, but diabetics will have a much bigger rise than a non diabetic.

But, you really need to get a diagnosis from your doctor, there atre tests he/she can do one of which is a glucose tolerance test and he/she will make a diagnosis based on test results and other factors.

So I would wait until you get a diagnosis, keep watching what you eat, not to much carbohydrate and see how things go. When you have got a diagnosis come and ask as many questions as you like.

H

Being pro-active is important in diabetes as in many other medical conditions and you are doing the right thing in doing the research and being prepared to manage your condition if diagnosed T2.

With regard to this you do need to keep an eye on things, high blood sugars can be damaging, but 9.4 after chips is a bit on the high side so don't eat so many or cut them out entirely

There is some excellent advice on here regarding diet and excercise, and whether you are or are not T2 it is worth reading.

Let us know when you get your results/diagnosis, and in the meantime it can do no harm to cut out the sugar and chips, and even, if you can, do a twenty minute walk each day, it will lower your blood sugars.

Yeast infections ( I forgot to mention them ) are a classic sign of T2 and will, no doubt, be considered by your doc. I, and many others, suffered with them for some years before diagnosis. In my case for some three years and many drugs to cure them on prescription. Luckily my chemist, seeing all these prescribed anti-fungal drugs, did a blood glucose test and bingo! I was diagnosed. Pity my doc. never thought of that!

H

i am beind discharged as i typpe from my 7th op to incise and drain abcess and have terrible yeast candida. i have been off work 6 month and have constant anti fungals. these are all in my right thigh. would appreciate input re yeasts and control of thanks

Hi Annette I have heard that yeast candida feeds off carbs so if you can reduce them it might help. It will also help your levels.

I asked my husband about this as he suffers with candida too. He said:

First take an anti-mycotic prescribed by the doctor. What you also need to do is to go on a diet for at least 2 months which avoids all fermented foods i.e. cheese, salami, bread, wine, beer etc. And take additional pro-biotics daily. He is also taking Metformin by the way so it's compatible. He also says there is quite a lot of data on the web so google it.

When i got my BGs under control the yeast infections simply faded away over maybe a month or so.
I only used Daktarin as a cream for a bit and no oral medication.

My big toenail infection did take about 6 months to grow out though.

So once you remove the food for the yeast (sugars) they find life hard and should fade away.
Having said that I know they can be hard to get rid of in some people, the worst one I had was a chest infection, after 3 months of coughing and loads of anti biotics i was prescribed an anti fungal, I was better in a week!

H