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southerly1

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About 5 days ago I believe I caught some sort of virus which gave me the most horrendous trots, it was the worse I have ever had and after 4 days the 4 night was the worse so I went to the doctors. I had not been taking metformin or the kicker during this time as food I thought had not been inside me long enough to raise my sugar level. After one bad day and night I noticed my sugar level in the morning had gone up from the normal 4,5 ish to 5,5 so I thought thats because my body is fighting some sort of infection and automatically raising my sugar level , which it should do. Then I gradually recovered and started eating and holding it all in. I have been testing my sugar level every 2 hours since and am wondering as to why I am thinking of taking tablets as the level has stayed at about 5,5 it is raised to 7 some 2 hours after a meal but by 3 hours is at 4,6 which seems fine I have heard that shock can kick the system into working again I am still testing but hoping that by careful eating I can keep off the tablets and possibly improve. Any Ideas?
 
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I'm no doctor, but I'd definitely keep off the tablets and continue to watch your BG levels. They look completely normal to me. My BG level was in the mid-teens, and I controlled it with diet and exercise. Metformin had horrible effects.
 
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dear belle, I dont think I could control mine with diet as I have to eat what everyone else does, canteen food, but will keep a careful check, and see what happens. the diaprim is the one I want to get off, more than the metformin, and both would be a bonus. regards
 
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Bellx15 said:
I'm no doctor, but I'd definitely keep off the tablets and continue to watch your BG levels. They look completely normal to me. My BG level was in the mid-teens, and I controlled it with diet and exercise. Metformin had horrible effects.
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If you don't mind me asking what horrible effects did it have? I find it makes me light headed and makes me feel sick to my stomach :sick:
 
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I went on it for about four weeks and by the end of that I was getting all sorts of abdominal pains - sharp knife-stabs, burning aches, muscle ripples, ribcage soreness, to the point where I was lying awake at night and had to get up and move around. It was awful.

I've come off the Metformin about a week now and the discomforts are fading.
 
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Most medics would say to keep taking the medication if you are ill .
I know if Iget an upset stomach, I don't and that works for me, but DO keep checking BG. Even if you don't normally get srips, they should give you them whilst you are ill.
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