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Re: Starting glucophage with normal fasting insulin
From: cw (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 20 Jun 2002 05:32:22 -0500 (CDT)
Well said. My fasting insulin levels were totally useless also. IR
effected me 1-3 hours after meals. I don't understand why so many
doctors treat the fasting glucose/insulin test as an end-all way to test
for IR.
At Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Belle wrote:
>
>Butting in here but 1) fasting levels of insulin can be totally useless.
>More often than not, the insulin problem does not show up until the body
>has been put under the stress of trying to take care of glucose in the
>system. Basing the definition of a problem on a fasting level is like
>trying to base a car problem while it is only in idle.
>
>2) The original studies that were done on anovulatory women and
>Glucophage did not require abnormal insulin levels.
>
>In comparison to me, a fasting insulin of 48 sounds like you are doing
>well! I know that my daughter who had a much lower insulin level than I
>did has responded very well to Glucophage, perhaps even better than I.
>
>Tue, 18 Jun 2002, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>>Just a question - why are you on anything if you have a fasting insulin of
>>5? I thought anything under 10 was good. Maybe I'm getting confused...are
>>you instead saying that your last set of bloodwork showed it at 5 and
>>without meds it's higher? My last bloodwork (April) showed my fasting
>>insulin at 48...
>>
>>just curious....
>>
>>Anonymous
>>
>>In a message dated 6/18/2002 12:37:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>anonymous@medispecialty.com writes:
>>
>>> Subj:Re: Starting glucophage with normal fasting insulin
>>> Date:6/18/2002 12:37:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>>> From:<A HREF="mailto:anonymous@medispecialty.com">anonymous@medispecialty.com</a>
>>> Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pcos@obgyn.net">pcos@obgyn.net</a>
>>> To:<A HREF="mailto:pcos@mail.medispecialty.com">pcos@mail.medispecialty.com</a>
>>> Sent from the Internet
>>>
>>> At Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Joy wrote:
>>> >
>>> Do you think there is any harm in going ahead and trying
>>> >the glucophage?
>>>
>>> I had a fasting insulin level of 5 and am currently taking 1000 mg of
>>> glucophage a day, but have gone as high as 1500 with no problems. Have
>>> not done Atkins on glucophage, but have tried to avoid sugar and white
>>> flour and eat high fiber foods.
>>>
>>> Jessica
>>>
>>> --
>>> J.W.J.
>>>
>--
>Hope this helps,
>
>Belle
>
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