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1 posted on 09/18/2019 12:59:13 PM PDT by Red Badger
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From $4 a month to $400 per month.


2 posted on 09/18/2019 1:02:09 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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No mention of diet and exercise. Just make the drug companies richer.


3 posted on 09/18/2019 1:05:24 PM PDT by FtrPilot
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“one daily dose of between 1,000 and 2,000 milligrams of metformin”

Medical Underwriter here. That’s a big dosage. A typical Type II dosage for Metformin is 500mg and with diet and exercise not cutting it, then 1000mg. But 2000mg? Wow. and $$$.


5 posted on 09/18/2019 1:08:58 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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Quit eating Sugar and get OFF Meds 100% for 0$


6 posted on 09/18/2019 1:09:16 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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Type 2 Diabetes is a self induced illness, quit doing what you are doing to create it and it will clear up all on it’s own with NO PILLS or SHOTS!!!

In other words CHANGE YOUR EATING HABITS to High Fat, Moderate Protein and Low Carb


10 posted on 09/18/2019 1:14:06 PM PDT by eyeamok
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How many of the “new” diabetes drugs have been recalled in recent years? I’m more inclined to stay with well known meds for diabetes.

Vildagliptin apparently is not in widespread use, at least in the US.


17 posted on 09/18/2019 1:16:24 PM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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My husband’s type 2 has been brought under control with the Atkins diet. It’s amazing.


18 posted on 09/18/2019 1:17:48 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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I wonder how many posts before some self rightous A-hole comes along and tells me it is my fault I have diabetes.

Of course, they will likely be the same A-holes who say it is my fault I have chronic cluster headache syndrome too.


24 posted on 09/18/2019 1:27:50 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder.)
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IF you are NOT terribly overweight and have type-2; you may have been misdiagnosed...check into type 1.5 (LADA).


43 posted on 09/18/2019 3:38:22 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.com)
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I was diagnosed in July. Already down from 280 to 260, maybe a little lower (last weighed 10 days ago).

A1C down from 8.7 to 7.8. Definitely watching my carbs.

Veterans Administration assigned me a very nice nurse practitioner, who, unlike most MDs I’ve encountered, is actually willing to listen to me.

She just halved my glypizide and said that if I get down to about 240 I should be off meds entirely. Hope she’s right.


51 posted on 09/18/2019 5:05:43 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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Bkmk


71 posted on 09/20/2019 4:32:45 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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