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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trinkwasser" data-source="post: 41334" data-attributes="member: 11875">A rough rule of thumb would be to look at your lipids, if trigs/HDL ratio is below 1.3 this would indicate your insulin resistance is low at the metformin would not be useful (although it does have some cardioprotective benefits)Your best bet would be to experiment, the classic hypo treatment is 15g fast carbs and test again in 15 minutes but at not-hypo levels it might be better to experiment with a smaller quantity of fast carbs and a small quantity of slow carbs, ie. oatcake and some nut butter, to bring the numbers up more slowly and buffer them against an overswing</blockquote>

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