My brother was diagnosed last week with type 2 Diabetes...........

[mrmpa]

9. I was diagnosed in 1998.......

When you wrote that your A1C showed that your sugar had been 120-130, that's not high that is a good normal reading. Your current readings of 80's-90's range are fantastic. Spiking to 101, well 101 is a fantastic reading. I've spike to over 500 when I've been under stress.

My suggestion (I'm not a professional health care person) is to ask your doctor to allow you to remove the metformin from your regimen for say 2-3 months. During this time you would take your blood sugar, in the morning, after every meal & before bedtime. You would keep a log of these readings & if they're good you then could totally discontinue the metformin.

I negotiate with my doctor on occasion. I had terrible bowel disturbances while taking metformin, I was at 2000 mg a day. My doctor said that many of her patients were much better when taking metformin extended release. She wanted me again at 2000 mg a day. I told her that I would prefer 1000 mg a day. The 1000 mg ER a day has helped with the disturbances and my numbers are all good.

Our next negotiation will be how to remove the Lantus and novalog from my regimen. In 4 years I will be on medicare & I will not be able to afford these.

Let me know what you do. But I think your numbers are so normal.