Met and normal blood sugar levels

cheech · 12-26-2007, 12:26 AM

I have PCOS, however my sugar levels are normal (if not maybe a little on the low side -- fasting is typically in the 70's and my dad is diabetic and I just used his monitor to check my levels today and an hour after eating and it was 84 (although I didn't eat much since I was recovering from a fever).

Anyways, I was on Met about a year ago but I couldn't stand the side effects. My endo suggested I try it again. Will it decrease my blood sugar too much?

ellie_anna · 12-26-2007, 01:14 AM

Hi.

I don't know much about the blood sugars. How long were you on metformin the last time. Because for me I had side effects pretty bad the first few weeks but after that they subsided.

JosieFB · 12-26-2007, 01:33 AM

I'm not diabetic (yet) and my Dad has been Type II since he was about 55 (my grandmother and uncle were/are Type II also). Met doesn't seem to lower my blood sugar at all. Mine runs in the 80s fasting.

Allygirl · 12-27-2007, 12:16 AM

I thought that met is to lower insulin, not sugar levels. My sugar has always been low I thought because I had too much insulin. Now that my insulin is at a more normal level with met, my sugar is a little higher.

Does that make sense? Sugar and insulin are not the same thing.

Amity79 · 01-02-2008, 12:20 PM

met helps IR...it makes the cells more sensitive to insulin so you don't produce as much....it slows the amount of glucose absorbed when digested...and it makes the liver reduce the amount of glucose it dumps into your blood stream.

Having too much insulin in your system is just as bad as too much glucose...if not worse.