I take metformin speifically for low blood sugar, I also have PCOS but it was low blood sugar that brought me to the doctor.
The progression towards type II diabetes often includes a period of insulin resistance and that can be severe enough to cause low blood sugar. It's caused when your body over produces insulin. Once your body loses the ability to use the insulin it produces or stops producing enough insulin then you become diabetic.
It has been shown in studies that people at risk of type II diabetes who have started treatment with metformin whilst they are insulin resistant can put off the onset of diabetes by up to ten years.
Far too many people in my family have died before they reached retirement age, and all of them from dibetes or complications of diabetes. I want to live long enough to collect at least a few social security checks. |