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<blockquote data-quote="Keith_Simpson" data-source="post: 1569798" data-attributes="member: 401116"><p>Diabetes is complicated but testing is the only way to know what is happening to your glucose levels & to discover what puts your glucose levels up. Obviously eating different things in different quantities is the main focus here but I have also found that in the mornings before eating anything, my liver is releasing glucose which in my case is keeping my fasting glucose levels higher than would otherwise be the case [usually over 7.0]. They don't want you to test because of the cost & they rely on the HBA1C [a single number] to determine how good your control has been because it is simple but the HBA1C is an average & control is actually about range but in particular, what is happening now. An average of what has happened over the last 2 months does not help control in general I would argue but in particular it does not inform or help control what is happening now.</p><p></p><p>I found metformin helped after eating when insulin production is stimulated but it did nothing to reduce my fasting levels which meant continued higher peaks after breakfast [typically 13 to 14]. Also Metformin caused me to develop Raynaud's syndrome; the day after starting Metformin my extremities [hands & feet] became ice cold for most of the day & then day after day. It was 6 months after stopping Metformin that things finally went back to normal. I suspect when these symptoms are presented, GP's dismiss them as caused by Diabetes having effected the cardiovascular system.. rather than look to their first line [cheapest] diabetes medication.</p><p></p><p>In the end I managed to get put on insulin which has meant that I am more in control generally but this has been the only way I found to bring down my fasting level before breakfast.</p><p></p><p>If your levels are always over 10, focus on what the peaks are & report them because if they are regularly above [I would say 12] then you are probably doing damage by leaving them there. 'Nice' say type 2 should be below 8.5 2h after a meal; until starting with insulin I was usually over 10 2h after breakfast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keith_Simpson, post: 1569798, member: 401116"] Diabetes is complicated but testing is the only way to know what is happening to your glucose levels & to discover what puts your glucose levels up. Obviously eating different things in different quantities is the main focus here but I have also found that in the mornings before eating anything, my liver is releasing glucose which in my case is keeping my fasting glucose levels higher than would otherwise be the case [usually over 7.0]. They don't want you to test because of the cost & they rely on the HBA1C [a single number] to determine how good your control has been because it is simple but the HBA1C is an average & control is actually about range but in particular, what is happening now. An average of what has happened over the last 2 months does not help control in general I would argue but in particular it does not inform or help control what is happening now. I found metformin helped after eating when insulin production is stimulated but it did nothing to reduce my fasting levels which meant continued higher peaks after breakfast [typically 13 to 14]. Also Metformin caused me to develop Raynaud's syndrome; the day after starting Metformin my extremities [hands & feet] became ice cold for most of the day & then day after day. It was 6 months after stopping Metformin that things finally went back to normal. I suspect when these symptoms are presented, GP's dismiss them as caused by Diabetes having effected the cardiovascular system.. rather than look to their first line [cheapest] diabetes medication. In the end I managed to get put on insulin which has meant that I am more in control generally but this has been the only way I found to bring down my fasting level before breakfast. If your levels are always over 10, focus on what the peaks are & report them because if they are regularly above [I would say 12] then you are probably doing damage by leaving them there. 'Nice' say type 2 should be below 8.5 2h after a meal; until starting with insulin I was usually over 10 2h after breakfast. [/QUOTE]
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