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Metformin good for diabetics?

Posted by andytheman @andytheman, May 25, 2023

I’m a diabetic type 2 and I was put on metformin about a year ago. My diabetic levels ranged in the 95-112 range after I started on metformin.
I have heard stories about metformin that it should no longer be considered due to its potential for harm more than help so I’m leary of starting up again.

My diabetes level was 289 yesterday before breakfast. I tested before dinner and it was 235. This morning before breakfast it was 217. I messaged my PCP on the portal for guidance and waiting for his response. Is it normal to jump up after being low for the past year?
I have done nothing different.

Could weight gain be related to this higher number? Last winter I was at 212 lbs. then I dropped down substantially to 186 lbs a few months ago due to a 20 day inpatient hospital stay for something unrelated. I have slowly gone up to my present 202lbs. I had a 38 inch waist that went down to my present 36 inches.
Any thoughts?

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andytheman | @andytheman | Jun 9, 2023
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@betty2020

Wow it is nice to share so we are similar . We never had diabetes before . I start with diabetes 2 after the kidney transplant . I have to do same exercise or walk but the weather is not nice now . I live in mass. It can be too hot or too cold now. I get tired easy.
Hope that someday start walking everyday
Good luck to you

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I was semi paralyzed after spending 2 months in the hospital. (Long story). Then I was moved to rehab because I couldn’t walk. After 10 days inpatient in physical therapy I graduated from a wheelchair to a walker and now just a cane.

Now that I can walk almost anywhere with a cane (except in the woods that surrounds our property).

I have started walking on a daily basis on a stone granite track in the back yard. I walk daily around the track and I’m up to doing it twice. Sometimes without my cane. Which can be scary. I keep pushing myself.
Like you said you live in Ma.
I live in Rhode Island (we are neighbors!). And the temperature right now is cold I n the 50’s and it’s pouring cats and dogs as a strong thunderstorm is blowing over us. Complete with small hail, lightning, and thunder. The wind is really blowing strong!
So that is putting my walking on hold. Good luck to you too!

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betty2020 | @betty2020 | Jun 9, 2023

We have to keep moving . I did my first walked today after the rain but only 5 minutes .
I want to walk more everyday like my doctor told me 5 min first then 10 min Ann ms add more little by little .

Hope that we have a nice weather all this week and we can walk. Good luck with your walking . Watch fir holes in the street and little stone . We have to b careful to fall .

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andytheman | @andytheman | Jun 11, 2023
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@betty2020

We have to keep moving . I did my first walked today after the rain but only 5 minutes .
I want to walk more everyday like my doctor told me 5 min first then 10 min Ann ms add more little by little .

Hope that we have a nice weather all this week and we can walk. Good luck with your walking . Watch fir holes in the street and little stone . We have to b careful to fall .

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What I don’t like about our walking path is that you have to go around and around 14 times to equal one mile! That would probably take me at least a half hour and I’m not ready to do that yet ( if ever)

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Jose Cantu | @j112267c | Jul 13, 2023

I also heard metformin should be discontinued its being discontinue in my diabetic family members in Mexico and the first one is doing great with out it!

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