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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theblokefromstoke" data-source="post: 151781" data-attributes="member: 24497">Hi all,I was diagnosed in January and my fasting BG was 26.  Since then I have lost over 5 stone, dropped from 4 metformin to 2 and my fasting BG is around 5.2 with my Hba1c at 5.5.All good news.  The nurse a couple of weeks ago suggested I dropped to 1 metformin per day and see how it went for a week.  Well, I stuck it for 2 days - 1 of which I had to spend in bed feeling like i was dying, my fasting BG was creeping up into the 6's so I went back onto 2 and was instantly better.Diabetes has had some press over the past few days on the local radio here in Staffordshire and all of it sounds so negative doesn't it.  These so called experts came on telling how diabetes type 2 was all about obesity and type 2's are a drain on the stretched NHS, particularly as 'they' have free prescriptions etc.Well, It made my blood boil listening to them making out that type 2's have only themselves to blame etc etc. One doctor even suggested that type 2's be treated like long term smokers who refuse to give up and thus refused NHS treatment.  It was belittling, honestly. I felt pathetic.My point is that I know many type 2's who are and never have been anything other than a normal healthy weight.  My circumstances are that i was overweight, I have lost this weight but still need the metformin to help with my BG.  I understand that type 2 can be either the pancreas reducing output over time (will it stop eventually?), the body building up a resistance over time to insulin, or the body fat interfering with the body's ability to absorb insulin.How on earth do we know which catagory we fall into and how can we go about improving this negative press we are served.</blockquote>

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