Yahoo, BS improving.

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My BS is so improved on just the 500 mg of metformin in the morning

and 250 at night that I am amazed. I am doing many other things,

like I posted yesterday. This morning my FBS was the lowest yet and

not a week yet. I have been running with good sugars today, 94 and

103 two hours after eating, earlier in the 120s. I walked for an

hour today and I feel that is helping. I am also taking cinnamon

twice a day, 400 mg of chromium twice a day, 400 mg of vitamin E, a

B complex and a multivitamin. I read the Atkins book on diabetes

and am pretty much following that, green low carb veggies, fish,

eggs, cheeses, olive oil and grape seed oil, garlic, V8 juice, and

some nuts, and my BS is dropping every day. I have not started on

the insulin shots and I hope I will not need them. I am only on

half doses of metformin yet, even less than half, and will be

building up slowly over the next month, per my doc, to avoid stomach

upset. I think the diet, exercise, supplements and metformin are

doing the trick. I was diagnosed last Thursday with a FBS of 302

and today FBS is about half. Daytime BS has been pretty much

normal. There is light at the end of the tunnel. I really think

going on an Atkins or high protein, low carb diet has really done

most of the trick along with exercise, with the medication.

Thursday FBS 302, Friday FBS 216, Sat FBS 213 Sunday FBS 215, Monday

FBS 180 Tuesday FBS 156. If I eat a high protein snack in the

middle of the night, something small, but high protein, it seems to

be lower when I get up. It is slowly dropping. I talked to a lady

yesterday with this disease, that has had it for quite a while, and

she said to give it 3 months to get it stabilized.

Today when my BS goes below 120, I start to feel shaky, like hypo,

even though it is in normal range and not below 80. I don't

understand that and am wondering how long it will take to not feel

shaky at normal levels.

Margaret