(August 12, 2024 at 8:37 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Apparently, the Metformin and changes in my diet are working. My glucose readings have been gradually coming down. I got a reading of 123 this morning, about three hours after breakfast. The normal range for a man of my age and weight is between 90 and 125.

If you, and your doctor, want to closely monitor you blood glucose levels I'd suggest you consider getting a CGM.

(August 12, 2024 at 8:45 am)brewer Wrote:

(August 12, 2024 at 8:37 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Apparently, the Metformin and changes in my diet are working. My glucose readings have been gradually coming down. I got a reading of 123 this morning, about three hours after breakfast. The normal range for a man of my age and weight is between 90 and 125.

If you, and your doctor, want to closely monitor you blood glucose levels I'd suggest you consider getting a CGM.

What's a CGM?

Computer generated monkey

(August 13, 2024 at 4:02 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Computer generated monkey

(August 13, 2024 at 12:24 am)Gwaithmir Wrote:

(August 12, 2024 at 8:45 am)brewer Wrote: If you, and your doctor, want to closely monitor you blood glucose levels I'd suggest you consider getting a CGM.

What's a CGM?

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-informa...monitoring

(August 13, 2024 at 7:31 am)brewer Wrote:

(August 13, 2024 at 12:24 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: What's a CGM?

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-informa...monitoring

Thanks! I'll inquire about that during my next checkup.

I've been systematically getting rid of sugary products in my pantries and freezers ever since my diagnosis. This has been a bonanza for my housemaid, who has carried home a full shopping bag of these items each week. Last week she took away all the barbecue sauces and frozen, barbecued chicken in the freezer. Tomorrow I'll tell her to take home all the frozen Chinese dinners and some condiments whose main ingredients is sugar. I recently purchased sugar-free honey and chili sauce to use in some of my recipes.

Keep up the good work (my diet has become much more healthy since my wife was diagnosed with type 2)

UGH - getting the meds right for just about anything can be a pain.

For reasons other than diabetes, I have been on a medication merry-go-round for the past few months. What the doctor told me about one of them and what his PA actually prescribed have two different effects on me. I finally sent in a message on the portal (because Heaven forbid you get to speak to a person) and got a call from an actual human who set an appt for tomorrow afternoon with the doctor and not his PA. We have to get this straightened out.

Then in a couple months I go back to the cardiologist to once again fight about taking statins, which make me sick and can cause issues with what the other doc is working on.

smh

I've been on Metformin for over 15 years and have never experienced ANY noticeable side effects.