metformin

Re: meterformin

Hi Carlos,

I'm wary about offering advice since I'm pretty new here and also of only limited experience with T2.

I've been following diet/exercise/Metformin from the day I was diagnosed then moved to low-carb a while later since my numbers did not improve as much as I'd hoped.

My numbers are now really good. I have lost a lot of weight in that time, so that may be just as big a driver for lower BG readings as the rest of my lifestyle change.

Even after the occasional 'hearty meal' I only spike in the low 5s after an hour now, two hours and I'm always back to 4.6/4.7

If you are overweight, you might try logging how your average BG numbers change as your weight does; I recorded my weight change on a graph for the last 8 months and my OneTouch UltraSmart BG meter logs all my readings very comprehensively. When I plot them both on a bit of graph paper, the link is pretty plain to see, even including a temporary increase in BG for the couple weeks after a holiday when I put on 10 pounds - until I dropped the weight again.

It would take quite a bit of time and effort, but I'm wondering if it would be valuable to graph my fasting and before/after meals numbers together with weight into an image, if there were some way to post it here.

I'm now down to only one Met per day and while I may stop it for a few days when I hit my final weight target in a few weeks - just to see what my numbers do - I'll probably stay on it permanently since I'm told that has the best long term chance of maintaining my pancreas's ability to manufacture insulin for me.

This is only my untrained personal experience, so again I'm very cautious at offering advice to others, but low carb/weightloss has certainly done me all the good in the world.

Thanks Mark,that's what this board is all about,everyone sharing their personal experiences so others can be helped and learn about their diabetes.