I have just been diagnosed with type 2 and my HbA1c was 80. My vision is blurry and I am worried about permanent damage to my sight. Will the blurriness go once my blood sugar level goes down? I have started a very low calorie diet (low carb) to try to reduce my weight quickly and hope that works. How long does it usually take to reach normal levels when taking Metformin ? My Dr didn't really answer my questions. Thanks in advance for any information/advice.
Hi
@Guna108 , and welcome,
Yep, the blurry thing is temporary, in all likelyhood. So don't run out to get new specs, some cheap 5 quid reading glasses should get you through the worst of it.
As for low calorie, I'm with the others there; it's the carbs, not the calories that matter. The weightloss'll come even without calorie restriction. You might want to check dietdoctor.com , Dr. Jason Fung's book The Diabetes Code (LOADS of answers in there, not just on diet but on how diabetes works too), and my own little quick start guide:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/the-nutritional-thingy.2330/
The metformin only tells your liver not to dump as much glucose as it usually would (about 75% less), and it doesn't do anything about what you eat. So while it'll improve your
fasting blood glucose (by treating the so called Dawn Phenomenon), it won't fix any carbs/sugars ingested later in the day. If your bloodsugars normalise throughout the day, and odds are they will, it will be because of the low carb diet. You can combine the met with a diet just fine, but it
could very well be that after a while, you can come off the metformin because you won't need it anymore. Quite a few people here could go diet-only after a while.
Do you have more questions? Because people here have more answers than we know what to do with.
Good luck,
Jo