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Are you also getting A1c results? That tells you what your blood sugar is over the last 90 days and it’s a lot more usable number than fasting blood sugar. Which only gets one point in time.

The doctors at the Medical Center I go to don’t really use fasting blood sugar any more, they go by A1c. It gives them more realistic, look at long-term results.

Seven or eight years ago, they told me I was prediabetic and sent me to a class with a dietitian. In my case all I had to do was stop eating ice cream with chocolate sauce every night. Brought my blood sugar, right down to normal. Now I eat a small piece of cake or a couple of cookies in the evening. My A1c has been 5.4 the last couple of times, It’s always close to that. Of course the huge salad I eat for lunch every other day probably helps.

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@jeffmarc The other thing that is going on now is research into GLP1 s and cancer including prostate cancer are heating up. GLPs may interfere with cancer growth. In that context it may make sense to switch off metformin to GLP1??????