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I’ve been testing for some time. I have a high fasting sugar for whatever reason.

I eat very little carbs and virtually no processed carbs or sugar. Small meals and lots of protein. Have a pretty good post prandial response (around 85 2 hr PP).

Metformin did absolutely nothing for me. Had better results with Chromium.

Were you one of the people with whom I discussed Gymnema sylvestre on another thread? To some degree it is a natural analogue to the drug discussed in this article and can knock a few points off fasting blood glucose. Not all that much help to a full-blown Type II diabetic, but for those in the pre- or borderline area, may be worth a trial. It is often combined with chromium which you already take.

“Metformin did absolutely nothing for me. Had better results with Chromium.”

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Metformin helped damage my kidneys and chromium did absolutely nothing for me.

There is no one size fits all diet or treatment that works for every diabetic. We just have to find what’s best for us individually.

I am obviously not a doctor and I'm not trying to give you medical advice but you might want to find a "seasoned" doctor to talk to about this.

I moved a couple of years ago and started going to a new, young doc. Nice guy, competent as far as I could tell and he was worried about my high fasting glucose.

Tried a bunch of stuff, no difference at all.

Finally found all my old blood reports; turns out I had been pre-diabetic for .... 30+ years. I think as recent as 15-20 years ago above norm was 115. Then 110 and now 100. My fasting glucose hadn't changed, the norms had.

Got sent to a specialist who had a few years on him and he said sheesh, you're just at the high end of the norm just as there will be people at the low end and got caught up in the changes to the standards which don't mean anything other than the medical profession is trying to catch stuff earlier. Which is a good thing but if not taken into account with other factors can be misleading.

I've always always been skinny, in the last 30 years never more than 12% body fat, usually something less than 10%. And I'm an old guy. Don't eat carbs for the most part. Not for any dietary reason, I just feel better when I don't eat them.

Bottom line the Doc told me I'd do more damage to myself taking medication for something that wasn't a problem and worrying about it.

Again, not trying to give you advice, just maybe something you might want to talk to your doc about, or even another doc that might have a few more miles on him and heck, maybe my guy was wrong and my pancreas in getting ready to fall off but I thought I'd pass this along.