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<blockquote data-quote="rinfrance" data-source="post: 988456" data-attributes="member: 38884"><p>It depends for me, on what I eat, I have SERIOUS problems with anything that sniffs of Metformin. Took six weeks to be able to ride my motorcycle after 2 tablets of Metformin in a (French) hospital. Anyway, I am on insulin have been for 14 years, however the feeling unwell will, if you track what caused it, not only be down to the numbers, but also what you have eaten. I know if something contains hard wheat sugars, for example drink something made with barley, a double barley malt whisky, and my figures after a load may hit 13, yet no problem not even drunk per se, BUT 1 glass of stuff made with wheat, hard wheat, a beer say 1664, and although my figures do not alter, say still at 5, within 20 minutes, sleep! Wake up some time later and feel knackered. This extends to soups, pies, gravy's , mixers, and virtually anything and it seems hard wheat may be in it. Luckily, those of you in the UK most of what you get in bread and cakes is soft wheat, but some cheap bread is made of hard wheat and many non bread things like ice cream sweetener. Weetabix used to be all soft wheat grown in the area, and the same is true of Ryvita. Both manufacturers stated that they would not have hard wheat on the premises. I wonder why!</p><p> So go and look at what you eat. </p><p>As to the comment that those on metformin should not test, stupid, and a comment from a French dietician was that that could only be because they knew it was not wholly effective. Sure it works on borderlines, but 90% are NOT borderline. Guess where Metformin came from. J'habite la!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rinfrance, post: 988456, member: 38884"] It depends for me, on what I eat, I have SERIOUS problems with anything that sniffs of Metformin. Took six weeks to be able to ride my motorcycle after 2 tablets of Metformin in a (French) hospital. Anyway, I am on insulin have been for 14 years, however the feeling unwell will, if you track what caused it, not only be down to the numbers, but also what you have eaten. I know if something contains hard wheat sugars, for example drink something made with barley, a double barley malt whisky, and my figures after a load may hit 13, yet no problem not even drunk per se, BUT 1 glass of stuff made with wheat, hard wheat, a beer say 1664, and although my figures do not alter, say still at 5, within 20 minutes, sleep! Wake up some time later and feel knackered. This extends to soups, pies, gravy's , mixers, and virtually anything and it seems hard wheat may be in it. Luckily, those of you in the UK most of what you get in bread and cakes is soft wheat, but some cheap bread is made of hard wheat and many non bread things like ice cream sweetener. Weetabix used to be all soft wheat grown in the area, and the same is true of Ryvita. Both manufacturers stated that they would not have hard wheat on the premises. I wonder why! So go and look at what you eat. As to the comment that those on metformin should not test, stupid, and a comment from a French dietician was that that could only be because they knew it was not wholly effective. Sure it works on borderlines, but 90% are NOT borderline. Guess where Metformin came from. J'habite la! [/QUOTE]
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