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<blockquote data-quote="spaglemon" data-source="post: 244713" data-attributes="member: 39548"><p>thanks for the replies, i did have a thought i'd like to run by people in a similar situation ?</p><p></p><p>if i can stall my gp from taking me off the metformin for another few months until my next hba1c and knowing that your diet as you get closer to your test becomes more critical to your result, would it be a stupid and irresponsible idea to go a bit carb crazy for the 2 weeks before my test to push my hba1c level up artificially as it were, no idea how i'd be able to estimate how many carbs i'd need to eat to accomplish a couple of percent increase though ?</p><p></p><p>my initial goal was to come off meds and control my diabetes by diet alone but as the low dose of metformin i'm on isn't really causing me any trouble i would like to stay on it so i can relax my diet slightly at some point in the future, hopefully everyone reading this realises that i don't mean this as in " i want to take metformin to allow me to eat more of what i'd like to eat " it's more that i want to have a diet that keeps me below 7% ( where the gp wants me to be ) but with the metformin this reduces to below 6% which is where I want to be, by the way if a non diabetic level is 3.5% - 5.5% what's it actually possible for a type 2 to get down to ?</p><p></p><p></p><p>thanks again</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spaglemon, post: 244713, member: 39548"] thanks for the replies, i did have a thought i'd like to run by people in a similar situation ? if i can stall my gp from taking me off the metformin for another few months until my next hba1c and knowing that your diet as you get closer to your test becomes more critical to your result, would it be a stupid and irresponsible idea to go a bit carb crazy for the 2 weeks before my test to push my hba1c level up artificially as it were, no idea how i'd be able to estimate how many carbs i'd need to eat to accomplish a couple of percent increase though ? my initial goal was to come off meds and control my diabetes by diet alone but as the low dose of metformin i'm on isn't really causing me any trouble i would like to stay on it so i can relax my diet slightly at some point in the future, hopefully everyone reading this realises that i don't mean this as in " i want to take metformin to allow me to eat more of what i'd like to eat " it's more that i want to have a diet that keeps me below 7% ( where the gp wants me to be ) but with the metformin this reduces to below 6% which is where I want to be, by the way if a non diabetic level is 3.5% - 5.5% what's it actually possible for a type 2 to get down to ? thanks again [/QUOTE]
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