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rebrascora
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Hi and welcome.
I hope you were started off on a low dose like 1 a day and then gradually built up to 4 (ie 2000mg) over the course of 4 weeks to give your digestive system time to adjust to them.
They are best taken mid meal with a reasonably substantial amount of food to reduce the risk of side effects but if you are taking those precautions and your digestive system is still unhappy, then the doctor should be able to prescribe the slow release version which is usually kinder to your stomach.
Would you like to tell us a bit about how you came to be diagnosed? ie. Was it a routine blood test or did you go to the docs because you were suffering from symptoms and if so what were they? Or perhaps some other means?
Do you know the result of your HbA1c result? This is the blood test used to diagnose diabetes and track your progress in managing it. It will usually be a number in excess of 47 but can be considerably higher if things have gone a bit haywire.
Some GPs will allow you a few months to make dietary/lifestyle changes to see if that will reduce your levels if your HbA1c is not too high to start with, but others like to start you on meds straight away regardless of levels. Perhaps, if your levels are not too high, you could ask to try without the Metformin and see how you get on with some lifestyle changes or drop it down to a lower dosage if you were managing OK on a lower dose? There are also other meds if your levels are high and medication is required at this stage to bring you down out of the high risk zone, so lots of options to discuss with your GP but knowing your Hba1c result and understanding what it means is an important starting point.
I hope you were started off on a low dose like 1 a day and then gradually built up to 4 (ie 2000mg) over the course of 4 weeks to give your digestive system time to adjust to them.
They are best taken mid meal with a reasonably substantial amount of food to reduce the risk of side effects but if you are taking those precautions and your digestive system is still unhappy, then the doctor should be able to prescribe the slow release version which is usually kinder to your stomach.
Would you like to tell us a bit about how you came to be diagnosed? ie. Was it a routine blood test or did you go to the docs because you were suffering from symptoms and if so what were they? Or perhaps some other means?
Do you know the result of your HbA1c result? This is the blood test used to diagnose diabetes and track your progress in managing it. It will usually be a number in excess of 47 but can be considerably higher if things have gone a bit haywire.
Some GPs will allow you a few months to make dietary/lifestyle changes to see if that will reduce your levels if your HbA1c is not too high to start with, but others like to start you on meds straight away regardless of levels. Perhaps, if your levels are not too high, you could ask to try without the Metformin and see how you get on with some lifestyle changes or drop it down to a lower dosage if you were managing OK on a lower dose? There are also other meds if your levels are high and medication is required at this stage to bring you down out of the high risk zone, so lots of options to discuss with your GP but knowing your Hba1c result and understanding what it means is an important starting point.
rebrascora
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Oh wow! Well done on the weight loss! Do you have much more to go and did the weight come off relatively easily or has it been a real battle. The reason I ask is that weight loss can happen easily if your body is struggling to produce insulin because it can't access the glucose from your blood so it eats up it's own stores instead.
Did they do a scan of your pancreas as well as liver. Apparently gall stones can cause damage and inflammation to the pancreas and it is the pancreas which regulates BG levels, so if the weight was coming off rather more quickly or easily than expected or if you were seeing muscle wastage, then it might be something to ask about. There is a different type of diabetes referred to as Type 3c which occurs as a result of damage to the pancreas from disease, inflammation, trauma or surgery.
Did they do a scan of your pancreas as well as liver. Apparently gall stones can cause damage and inflammation to the pancreas and it is the pancreas which regulates BG levels, so if the weight was coming off rather more quickly or easily than expected or if you were seeing muscle wastage, then it might be something to ask about. There is a different type of diabetes referred to as Type 3c which occurs as a result of damage to the pancreas from disease, inflammation, trauma or surgery.
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