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<blockquote data-quote="Resurgam" data-source="post: 1743852" data-attributes="member: 355878"><p>The side effects are truly awful - I had such a bad time during the five weeks I took Metformin and a statin that I was losing the will to live.</p><p>Luckily I have been a long time low carber, right from my early 20s, and so I happily returned to how I was eating to maintain my weight and the diabetes has just gone away - I had normal results after 6 months.</p><p>As you are so much younger, and presumably so much more able to be active than I am at almost 67 years old, could you try to reduce your need for medication by eating a low carb diet? </p><p>It is true that there can be temptations but I have only to think of the state I was in just before Christmas 2016 for a diet of frogspawn and garlic to be preferable to having to go back onto Metformin. When I think of all the things I can eat and enjoy, I really do think that having the diagnosis did me a favour - I was on a so called cholesterol reducing diet for almost two years, put on masses of weight and it did very little for my cholesterol levels - and it made the various ratios of the component parts very bad indeed. They have improved a lot now despite all the fats I eat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Resurgam, post: 1743852, member: 355878"] The side effects are truly awful - I had such a bad time during the five weeks I took Metformin and a statin that I was losing the will to live. Luckily I have been a long time low carber, right from my early 20s, and so I happily returned to how I was eating to maintain my weight and the diabetes has just gone away - I had normal results after 6 months. As you are so much younger, and presumably so much more able to be active than I am at almost 67 years old, could you try to reduce your need for medication by eating a low carb diet? It is true that there can be temptations but I have only to think of the state I was in just before Christmas 2016 for a diet of frogspawn and garlic to be preferable to having to go back onto Metformin. When I think of all the things I can eat and enjoy, I really do think that having the diagnosis did me a favour - I was on a so called cholesterol reducing diet for almost two years, put on masses of weight and it did very little for my cholesterol levels - and it made the various ratios of the component parts very bad indeed. They have improved a lot now despite all the fats I eat. [/QUOTE]
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