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<blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 1003579" data-attributes="member: 196898"><p>This is turning into a Labour of Love. Good job i am retired, otherwise it would probably have never been written. As i said in Chapter 3, I had seen a significant effect from taking bitter melon, Another effect i experienced for a short while was intestional discomfort similar to constipation or bloating. I was certainly not constipated, but for a day or so I had these effects.</p><p></p><p>When i stopped the supplement there were a couple of days when I continued to have good readings, but then the averages started to rise and the 4 readings started to diverge again. After a week my short term average was up from the 5,8 up to 8.9 and the spread between the readings increased, I was not able to monitor this period very well coz I ran out of teststrips, My backup meter showed a rise from 8.6 to 10.4 during this same period. Thus I believe the memory effect is small. i have read that BM can repair damaged beta cells, but I have no evidence in this trial to say either way. There seemed to be a slight delay.</p><p></p><p>I spent the rest of the month testing another supplement (Gymnema Sylvestre) but have to report that the effects (if any) were too small and that I remained at a higher general level. I also started to do LCHF diet, and this invallidated the latter stage of that test period. I was not impressed is all I can say about it. That period ended with an average of 7.7 mmol/L (back on primary meter) but the drop seems to have been due to the diet. I was still getting low readings, but was not omitting meds like I was having to with BM. At the end of this period I had an HBA1c taken and it came back at 53 (8.5 mmol/L plasma) so my primary meter was reading almost 1,0 mmol/L low, and my backup was 1.0 mmol/L high @ 8.5 actual. </p><p></p><p>After the HBA1c I started Biter Melon again, same tabs from original batch, and taking 1 cap a day for first week I am also doing</p><p> LCHF. My weekly average during this time dropped from 7,7 to 6,3 BUT I noted a change of strip pak had also shown a 1.0 drop in readings by my Primary meter, so cannot say any of the drop was due to BM. I am currently running with a short term average of 6.9 which was skewed by a regular carb meal last night when I omitted to take any of my meds. However It does seem that the BM has kicked in since I got a string of 11 consecutive readings in the range 6.7 to 8.9 mmol/L before my culinary disaster took me up to 13. The average without the disaster is showing as 6.7. </p><p></p><p>Here endeth Chapter #4</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oldvatr, post: 1003579, member: 196898"] This is turning into a Labour of Love. Good job i am retired, otherwise it would probably have never been written. As i said in Chapter 3, I had seen a significant effect from taking bitter melon, Another effect i experienced for a short while was intestional discomfort similar to constipation or bloating. I was certainly not constipated, but for a day or so I had these effects. When i stopped the supplement there were a couple of days when I continued to have good readings, but then the averages started to rise and the 4 readings started to diverge again. After a week my short term average was up from the 5,8 up to 8.9 and the spread between the readings increased, I was not able to monitor this period very well coz I ran out of teststrips, My backup meter showed a rise from 8.6 to 10.4 during this same period. Thus I believe the memory effect is small. i have read that BM can repair damaged beta cells, but I have no evidence in this trial to say either way. There seemed to be a slight delay. I spent the rest of the month testing another supplement (Gymnema Sylvestre) but have to report that the effects (if any) were too small and that I remained at a higher general level. I also started to do LCHF diet, and this invallidated the latter stage of that test period. I was not impressed is all I can say about it. That period ended with an average of 7.7 mmol/L (back on primary meter) but the drop seems to have been due to the diet. I was still getting low readings, but was not omitting meds like I was having to with BM. At the end of this period I had an HBA1c taken and it came back at 53 (8.5 mmol/L plasma) so my primary meter was reading almost 1,0 mmol/L low, and my backup was 1.0 mmol/L high @ 8.5 actual. After the HBA1c I started Biter Melon again, same tabs from original batch, and taking 1 cap a day for first week I am also doing LCHF. My weekly average during this time dropped from 7,7 to 6,3 BUT I noted a change of strip pak had also shown a 1.0 drop in readings by my Primary meter, so cannot say any of the drop was due to BM. I am currently running with a short term average of 6.9 which was skewed by a regular carb meal last night when I omitted to take any of my meds. However It does seem that the BM has kicked in since I got a string of 11 consecutive readings in the range 6.7 to 8.9 mmol/L before my culinary disaster took me up to 13. The average without the disaster is showing as 6.7. Here endeth Chapter #4 [/QUOTE]
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