type 2 diabetic
I was taking 1000mg of metformin a day and my blood sugar was still a little high. Stopped taking it 1 day before surgery and have not taken it since and my numbers are great.
Surgery Date 04-22-14 HW 2011 388(lost 60lbs on WW, regained 40) Surgery Consult Weight 1/10/14 - 367 SW 357 - CW 9/15 210.
Stalls are your body's way of telling you not to get too cocky.
5K - 1st 59:00(9/14) PR 33:45(9/15)
10K - 1:14(10/15) 1/2 - 1st 3/20/16
I am a Type 2 and was on 2000mg of Metformin and 10mcg of Byetta daily for several years prior to surgery. I went home from the hospital off all my meds. Keep in mind that the surgery can help you get into remission from diabetes but it does NOT cure it! You can easily spike your blood sugars and make yourself really sick by eating sugar, rice, pasta and white flour carbs. There's a long list of people who have had surgery, started eating crappy again and had to go back on medication.
Some Type 2 diabetics can't get off the meds if they have become insulin dependent and have been on it for a very long time.
ETA: My last A1c three months ago was 5.4
I was type II for over 10 years. It was well controlled with 500mg of metformin 2x a day. This kept my A1C in the mid 6's.
I've been off of it since the day of surgery and my latest A1C was 6.1. I got the OK to officially "dr. approved" discontinue the metformin.
Also, my cholesterol and triglycerides has worked themselves out. So I'm off my statin too.
If it weren't for the PPI and gallbladder meds from surgery, I'd be off of everything. To me that's just amazing in such a short time.