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<blockquote data-quote="ianf0ster" data-source="post: 2444436" data-attributes="member: 506169"><p>Hi [USER=549078]@JayBee28[/USER] and welcome to the forum.</p><p>Congratulations on your good start.</p><p>When you say you are going to take Metformin next week, I presume that currently your Blood Glucose is compeltely lifestyle controlled and that you aren't taking any diabetes drugs.</p><p>If so, have you considered that you probably don't need to take Metformin in order to have a non-diabetic HbA1C within 3 to 6 months?</p><p>So take Metformin if you want to, but without any further changes your HbA1C is are effectively pre-diabetic or better already! Just that because it is an average over the life of your red blood cells and they live approx 3 months, the actual test will take some time to catch up with your progress!</p><p></p><p>What Metformin does is to help suppress your appetite as well as to inhibit your liver from making and dumping as much glucose into your blood stream. But as it gets accustomed to your new lower 'normal' BG levels, your liver will do that less and less without any medication.</p><p>I didn't change anything to go from an HbA1C reading in the pre-diabetic range to one in the non-diabetic, just allowed time for my liver to get accustomed to normal Blood Glucose levels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ianf0ster, post: 2444436, member: 506169"] Hi [USER=549078]@JayBee28[/USER] and welcome to the forum. Congratulations on your good start. When you say you are going to take Metformin next week, I presume that currently your Blood Glucose is compeltely lifestyle controlled and that you aren't taking any diabetes drugs. If so, have you considered that you probably don't need to take Metformin in order to have a non-diabetic HbA1C within 3 to 6 months? So take Metformin if you want to, but without any further changes your HbA1C is are effectively pre-diabetic or better already! Just that because it is an average over the life of your red blood cells and they live approx 3 months, the actual test will take some time to catch up with your progress! What Metformin does is to help suppress your appetite as well as to inhibit your liver from making and dumping as much glucose into your blood stream. But as it gets accustomed to your new lower 'normal' BG levels, your liver will do that less and less without any medication. I didn't change anything to go from an HbA1C reading in the pre-diabetic range to one in the non-diabetic, just allowed time for my liver to get accustomed to normal Blood Glucose levels. [/QUOTE]
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