Reviewer: bellecat, 45-54 Female (Consumer)

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I have been diagnosed diabetic for 4 years. I was using prescribtion drugs without much success then I heard about this vegetable. After the first use my blood sugar drop from about 12 to 8. The only side effect I might have developed was a mild belly ache.

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I have been diagnosed diabetic for 4 years. I was using prescribtion drugs without much success then I heard about this vegetable. After the first use my blood sugar drop from about 12 to 8. The only side effect I might have developed was a mild belly ache.
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Reviewer: BitterSweet, 55-64 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Consumer)

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I am a 64 year old borderline diabetic. I have been this way for about 15 years with A1C ranging mostly from 5.8 to 6.4. I do not consume refined sugar and also stay away from natural sugars as much as possible. My diet is now a life style change that has lasted about 6 years. I made this change because daily fasting glucose levels were on the rise. Exercise with my diet is minimal due to military ... Show Full Comment

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I am a 64 year old borderline diabetic. I have been this way for about 15 years with A1C ranging mostly from 5.8 to 6.4. I do not consume refined sugar and also stay away from natural sugars as much as possible. My diet is now a life style change that has lasted about 6 years. I made this change because daily fasting glucose levels were on the rise. Exercise with my diet is minimal due to military injuries. The bonus has been a significant weight loss that has been stable for these 6 years. I am an average sized male about 5' 10" and 185 LBS. The point I would like to make is that I really wanted to see if Bitter Melon worked for me so I started a non-scientific test of my own. I love black liquorice. I hadn't had any for years. This was my one chance to go into "Sugar overload" and see if Bitter Melon could recover the blood glucose spike that was impending. I've had no serious sugar spikes in years, so I began to gorge myself on real Australian black liquorice. I consumed two bags each containing about 100 grams of sugar, about 200 grams total. I had taken a fasting reading that day of about 109. I take no medication and it really takes an extreme effort to get below 100. About an hour after eating the bags of liquorice I took a blood glucose reading. It was 192. This is very high for me but I didn't see any harm in doing this one time. I have friends that sometimes exceed this level by several magnitudes. They are medicated. So, to begin the test. I took 4 gel caps of 10:1 600mg (I will not mention the brand) and chewed them up and washed them down with about 16 ounces of water. The recommended dose is 1 capsule. The taste was terrible, absolutely awful. Then I waited 3 hours. There was no discomfort, or side effects. I took 2 blood glucose readings because I couldn't believe the first. Both readings were 96. For me, this stuff works real well, but it did alert me to the danger of misuse and possible hypoglycemia. No more experiments!
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Reviewer: lisa, 65-74 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Consumer)

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I started taking bitter melon capsules about 6 months ago-I did notice a drop BG reading. Yet still in the mornings I was running to high 130/150-so I only started to take in the evening. To my surprise my morning readings have dramatically dropped 117-100 for the last 2 weeks! I am amazed. I do not take medications. Just trying to control through diet and bitter melon. I take 1 or 2 pills and th ... Show Full Comment

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I started taking bitter melon capsules about 6 months ago-I did notice a drop BG reading. Yet still in the mornings I was running to high 130/150-so I only started to take in the evening. To my surprise my morning readings have dramatically dropped 117-100 for the last 2 weeks! I am amazed. I do not take medications. Just trying to control through diet and bitter melon. I take 1 or 2 pills and the amount per serving is 250 mg bitter melon fruit and 412 mg bitter melon stem powder.
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Reviewer: fulvietta, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 5 to less than 10 years (Consumer)

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I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes in 2005. I'm on Byetta 10mg, Metformin 500mg, Glimepiride 4mg. There have been a few times that my blood sugar was over 200 and I made some bitter melon tea. One hour later my blood sugar was down by 40 points. It seems to be working for me, to lower my blood sugar.

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I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes in 2005. I'm on Byetta 10mg, Metformin 500mg, Glimepiride 4mg. There have been a few times that my blood sugar was over 200 and I made some bitter melon tea. One hour later my blood sugar was down by 40 points. It seems to be working for me, to lower my blood sugar.
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