[1][2][3][4] If blood sugar levels remain too high the body suppresses appetite over the short term.
Long-term hyperglycemia causes many health problems including heart disease, cancer,[5] eye, kidney, and nerve damage.
Ketones will be very high (a magnitude higher than when eating a very low carbohydrate diet) initiating ketoacidosis.
From the perspective of the majority of patients, treatment with an old, well-understood diabetes drug such as metformin will be the safest, most effective, least expensive, most comfortable route to managing the condition.
[8] This may result in a variety of symptoms including clumsiness, trouble talking, confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures or death.