We went back home for Christmas and while we were there we went to our old small town Dr (a friend of mine). His office was only open 1/2 a day on Friday so when he came in I said "I know y'all are leaving early today so I will talk fast." He said he wasn't worried about it we could take all the time we needed then he spent an hour in the room with us. He is like all the other Dr's I have read about on this forum. I told him my husband was on Glyburide and I didn't want him on it. I said we wanted metformin only if possible. The reason my husband was put on Glyburide was because of his morning fast numbers. The Dr said we could try it if we wanted but high doses of metformin make a lot of people sick. Then like all the other Dr's he said All Diabetics need to be on 3 meds 1) for diabetes 2) blood pressure 3) statin to which I just shook my head and started crying. I told him I don't know what it is about the statin but I have read people try to avoid it I need to research it. He then told me that he himself takes statin and has blood work done to make sure there is no damage to his liver but I could research all I want it's not something that hubby needs right away. Ok so we leave the Dr with no change in meds for now. Now the exciting part. All weekend hubby's BG has run between 72-113. When he hit a 76 I told him just to take one metformin in the morning and one at night (he had some left from when first DX). Well he has been taking only metformin for 3 days and readings are between 72-113 WHOO HOO. Hope the readings keep going good. I haven't been able to get him to start his exercise yet but I will be sure to tell him if he don't exercise he will probably wind back up on Glyburide.
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