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Message: <blockquote data-quote="enzosb" data-source="post: 2717079" data-attributes="member: 590848">Hi [USER=520626]@Melgar[/USER] and [USER=550046]@Outlier[/USER] Thank you for taking the time to reply.  I do appreciate it.  And thanks for the reassurance regarding the fact that monitoring would not be a bad idea, the extra detail regarding insulin resistance, and also confirmation that the professional advice can sometimes we imperfect (which I think I knew anyway but good to hear real experiences).  As you can probably tell I am keen to try and understand this, understand the science behind it and be able to influence it myself rather than just doing nothing and leaving it to medicationRegarding the medication, I'm somebody who would rather not if at all possible so my hope would definitely be to phase them out over time if I could manage that rather than intend to be on them foreverIn some ways I kind of wish I had started some observation and diet/lifestyle changes before triggering the NHS process and been able to have a period of time to see if I could impact it myself without meds. I presume there would be nothing to stop me from asking to do that but one thing I'm not clear on is how foolish that may be or how much the NHS may baulk at such an idea.  Basically, I know my levels are very high and if they were lower then there would be more scope for taking things slowly.  And therefore I'm wondering if they are so high that only an idiot would not just suck it up and take the meds in the short termI'm expecting a call tomorrow with the results of my second test, formal confirmation and Metformin prescription so I can discuss it with them then.  I'll also order a CGMMany thanks again</blockquote>

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