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Metformin making BGs go up???

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tree-peony

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OK, it's official. Since I increased to 3 x 500mg SR a day last Friday, my levels have been creeping up. I thought it may be a blip to start with, but looking at my graph I am now in no doubt. The same thing happened when I got to 3 x 500 of the standard Metformin, but I thought it might be the tummy problems causing the rise - no suh problems this time tho. I tried to get an appointment with my GP, but he can't see me until the 31st and I'm due to go to Denmark (work) on the 1st :|

Anyone had similar?
 
Just had a thought, and it may be all off, but...

Could it be that your body interprets the lower glucose levels as 'bad' and tries to correct them by releasing more glucose into your blood stream? How often do you measure and how long have you been on the 3 pills a day?

Edit: A week, is it?

-M
 
Mileana said:
Just had a thought, and it may be all off, but...

Could it be that your body interprets the lower glucose levels as 'bad' and tries to correct them by releasing more glucose into your blood stream? How often do you measure and how long have you been on the 3 pills a day?

Edit: A week, is it?

-M
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I had the same experience as the OP but oone ever believed me and never found anyone who could offer an explanation .

You could well be righ Mileana . I have always sufferd from unexplained spikes . Januvia has stopped this to a large extent .
Once I "discovered" liver dumping "much became clear to me.
 
here's another thought for you.... if the metformin is making you feel unwell your body would be stressed. Stress tends to make your BGLs high. No matter what the stress, I get the same result usually... higher BGLs. I didn't have a good time on metformin and to be honest it didn't really help that much with my BGLs either on it's own... but succeeded at making me feel lousy continuously.
 
thanks @ all. Yes it's exactly a week and nothing else has changed. My BG simply refuses to go down. The lowest I've ever got was a 12, and now that risen to 14s. I'm sure it IS my liver. I measure about 5 or 6 times a day depending on how I feel, but I have to say generally I feel fine, other than this tingling in my hands and feet which only started with the Metformin. My FBG is now averaging 17. I asked about Januvia last time I was at the GP and was told it wasn't a "first line" drug.
 
Just to qualify, my "diet" yesterday was almond flour porridge; ham, cucumber, lettuce, celery and walnuts; baked haddock with spinach and celeriac "chips" followed y 6 strawberries with some double cream. 4 cups of decaff coffee and water.

Oh and the other thing is, I've not lost an OUNCE since I've been low carbing (5 weeks now) despite doing a min of 50 mins a day on the cross trainer.
 
Tree-peony you know I'm not a doctor but I think you need to get some more tests done maybe to see how much insulin you are actually producing. Like you say you've been low carbing now for around a month so you would expect to see an improvement in BG's but that will only happen if you are producing enough insulin. You must be producing some insulin otherwise your BG's would be through the roof by now. The only experience I have is that I know a T2 who needs to lose a similar amount of weight to what you said in your first post. She has swapped to low carb and is getting results.

GP's are sometimes reluctant to prescribe Januvia as its expensive...

I really would go back and take your husband / partner / friend with you to back you up. You need to tell the GP you are low carbing and that you expect him or her to take you seriously and find out why your levels are not coming down.
 
thanks xyzzy, it's not right, is it :cry:

My GP seems to be worse when my partner comes with me for some reason. I asked on my second visit about testing for actual insulin levels and was told they "don't do that test". Of course I now know about C Peptide :shh:

One of my problems is I'm away from home (working ) through most of June and really won't be able to cope with feeling ill, so I'm reluctant to start any major drug changes until after then.

On top of all this, my cataract op was a total waste of time :roll: I've still go exactly the same problems I had before the op which I was assured would vanish, and haven't, so I'm struggling with massive vision problems in one eye that my (nice) consultant is baffled by.

Story of my bleeding life!
 
Some doctors feel threatened by a paient bringin someon ewih them o an appointment. Some need to feel threatened of course
but it can put them under pressure.

I had a cataracs op a while ago. The cataracs was caused by all the surgery/procedures I have had on my eyes . By the time I had the op I was almost blind in that eye with most of my cenral vision obscured . My consultant keeps telling me I should have the cataract removed o=from the other eye but i am resisting it as long as possible because I don' like the glare and problems with focusing in the eye which has been operated on.
of course when you can't see at all there is no contest -you have the caaract removed. Because so many are performed does no mean hey are risk free and routine. The surgery can also make retiopathy etc worde . It did wih me . Vicious circle really.
Cataracts caused by reatmen of retinopahy/macular oedema . cataract removed and retinoppathy /macular oedema worstened as a result.Can't win can we TP?
 
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