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I took my first dose of Metformin last night and so far all my readings have been high - I had a small cooked breakfast and went for a good 30 minute walk afterwards and my reading was 6.8 after 2 hours …my after food readings have very rarely been an issue unless I eat a whole bunch of chocolate is this common with taking Metformin initially ?

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I was on metformin for majority of my time having GD. Like any medication it takes some time for it to get into your system properly and for it to work. For me it didn’t make a huge difference for about 4-5 days. I took metformin due to my fasting readings in the morning always being high. If you are taking it for the same reason then it won’t do much for your breakfast reading as it’s to mainly control your fasting reading only

Babe it’s pills like any others, they don’t straight away work like the insulin pens 😭 they’re long term

I took metformin for like a week. It did not help me at all. In fact it seemed to make things worse. So I chose to stop taking it.

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