Thu, Apr-28-16, 14:09
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Senior Member
Posts: 15,075
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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Originally Posted by JeanM
I am a bit confused about metformin. I take 500 mg daily and my last A1C was 5.5 down from 5.9 after taking the metformin for almost a year now. Lately I have been staying on plan strictly and will come off the met eventually but it does appear it helps me??
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Is your doctor wanting you off it? My understanding is that it does not have much risk of causing a hypo, unless combined with some other glucose lowering medication. If you look at how type II diabetes normally develops, very often insulin will be elevated long before blood glucose is--you can have a perfect blood glucose, a great A1C, but still have insulin levels that are higher than ideal--so maybe there would still be a benefit to taking metformin, even if blood glucose is behaving. Of course this is a doctor thing, not a some guy on the internet thing.
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