I've been able to reduce my insulin. No metformin after years of upset stomach but i would like to reintroduce it as less fattening than insulin. I'll have to convince specialist. Fingers crossed late April.@ickihun - I was thinking the very same - that the time has come for tablets for @TooManyCrisps ! I'm okay at the moment with the 'gliflozin', it does make you a bit queasy, I drink Twinings Ginger & Lemon Tea to settle upset stomach/feeling sick and this works for me. But not everybody is suited to that tablet we take? You take Insulin also? - I take Insulin And still on 4 x 500mg Metformin and the 'gliflozin' everyday.
@ickihun - I was thinking the very same - that the time has come for tablets for @TooManyCrisps ! I'm okay at the moment with the 'gliflozin', it does make you a bit queasy, I drink Twinings Ginger & Lemon Tea to settle upset stomach/feeling sick and this works for me. But not everybody is suited to that tablet we take? You take Insulin also? - I take Insulin And still on 4 x 500mg Metformin and the 'gliflozin' everyday.
I forgot to ask....how do you know that your metformin is still working?
Thanks @liam1955 You too.@ickihun - Metformin can help a type 2 lose weight, but that is because it lowers your appetite. I keep asking the Diabetologist to take me off Metformin (been on the stuff 14 years) but it was explained that it lowers the amount of sugar created by the Liver, and decreases the amount of sugar absorbed by the intestines - so it's doing something.Hope you start to feel better! When you are not well - you have to let us know Take care
Aww thanks Ickihun, sending you massive hugs. I think we are quite similar, even when life gets us down we are supportive to others. Look after yourself xxHi @Diamum5972 you always cheer me up even today when I'm feeling definitely not myself. Feeling yucky but your posts make all the difference. Thank you and @13lizanne and @liam1955 too.
I think we've miss each other.@TooManyCrisps you should have breakfast - before anything else. A low carb breakfast (no carb) will settle your 8.4 down.
8.4 isn't a disaster. A little tweak needed, that's all.
Have breakfast and no heavy stress/exercise with a 2 hour test. Let me know what your meter reads. Please.
By the way, what meter are you using?
Just want to say that my 5.3 fasting this morning was good for me. The last time I had this number was way back in early November 2015.
Hi. Readings are always high in the mornings and then seem to drop as the day goes on. So my pre-lunch reading is usially 7+, pre-dinner reading is usually 6+, 2 hours post meal is usually (but not always) under 9. My average post meal readings for the last 14 days are 8.1, but that includes post breakfast readings which are usually much higher. I need to get out a calculator and work out the post lunch and dinner readings.@TooManyCrisps
Your HbA1c will have gone down a lot from where it was. It's an average for the last 3 months not just your fasting readings. I worked out the average of my readings (that I had taken) over last 3 months 5.9 and my HbA1c still came back at 33. If you look at my fasting readings they are sometimes a bit high even now. What are your readings at other times?
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