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<blockquote data-quote="croftmanor" data-source="post: 80888" data-attributes="member: 17684"><p>Hi</p><p>I was the oppisate, skinny all my life then suddenly my waist size went from 33 to almost 40 in a matter of months</p><p>didn't really gain a lot of weuight just what gathered around the middle !!!</p><p>i was on metformin 500 for 2 years and got my waist back to 36, i suddenly felt as though my clothes had got tight again and on checking earlier this year i found i had gone back to 38 waist, i went to get a blood check in jan this year and found my GI was back up 9.6, with a reading on that morning of 14.8 !!, i was shocked, but when i looked into what i was actually eating and being really objective and honest then i couldn,t see why, </p><p>it would seem as others say its progressive and that despite awhat i thought was a good diet and meds regime it overtook me again, i am now on 2 x 850 metformin and never touch anything with more than trace sugar in it, last weeks blood test over the long term showed i was down to 6.9 overall, but with testing i still get spikes all through the day of anywhere up to 13.5, </p><p>mornings are worse for me, so i will see how my next test at the end of august turns out, if i have not got down lower on my GI i will be so dissapointed as i cant really do any more diet wise, will just have to find time for even more exercise</p><p>best regards to all</p><p>Andy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="croftmanor, post: 80888, member: 17684"] Hi I was the oppisate, skinny all my life then suddenly my waist size went from 33 to almost 40 in a matter of months didn't really gain a lot of weuight just what gathered around the middle !!! i was on metformin 500 for 2 years and got my waist back to 36, i suddenly felt as though my clothes had got tight again and on checking earlier this year i found i had gone back to 38 waist, i went to get a blood check in jan this year and found my GI was back up 9.6, with a reading on that morning of 14.8 !!, i was shocked, but when i looked into what i was actually eating and being really objective and honest then i couldn,t see why, it would seem as others say its progressive and that despite awhat i thought was a good diet and meds regime it overtook me again, i am now on 2 x 850 metformin and never touch anything with more than trace sugar in it, last weeks blood test over the long term showed i was down to 6.9 overall, but with testing i still get spikes all through the day of anywhere up to 13.5, mornings are worse for me, so i will see how my next test at the end of august turns out, if i have not got down lower on my GI i will be so dissapointed as i cant really do any more diet wise, will just have to find time for even more exercise best regards to all Andy [/QUOTE]
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