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<blockquote data-quote="Solaire" data-source="post: 2662969" data-attributes="member: 465318"><p>At the moment my husband is the same ... but it used to be the other way round. Metformin turned him into almost a walking skeleton. Always 6feet tall and slim, never even </p><p>went over 12.5 stone, but once on metformin it took all the muscle off him so I can see how it is now used for obesity. He had no appetite at all. Then couple or so weeks back his blood sugars were very high plus he had infections and was rushed into hospital (he is 79) ...there they tried insulin to get the bloods down a bit better, he is also a steroid dependant so that doesn't help blood sugars ...now he is home and still on with meds plus just 2 units of insulin in the mornings and I can't seem to fill him. Always hungry, which is much better than barely eating, so I am happy with that and he has just demolished a fillet steak quick fried in butter, mixed mushrooms, and lettuce salad sprinkled with grated cheese and said it was delicious ... his last A1c was 104, will have to wait couple weeks for those bloods again. Hopefully it will put a bit of weight back on because it is tricky trying to get insulin into just skin. Is it the insulin which has given him this appetite ??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Solaire, post: 2662969, member: 465318"] At the moment my husband is the same ... but it used to be the other way round. Metformin turned him into almost a walking skeleton. Always 6feet tall and slim, never even went over 12.5 stone, but once on metformin it took all the muscle off him so I can see how it is now used for obesity. He had no appetite at all. Then couple or so weeks back his blood sugars were very high plus he had infections and was rushed into hospital (he is 79) ...there they tried insulin to get the bloods down a bit better, he is also a steroid dependant so that doesn't help blood sugars ...now he is home and still on with meds plus just 2 units of insulin in the mornings and I can't seem to fill him. Always hungry, which is much better than barely eating, so I am happy with that and he has just demolished a fillet steak quick fried in butter, mixed mushrooms, and lettuce salad sprinkled with grated cheese and said it was delicious ... his last A1c was 104, will have to wait couple weeks for those bloods again. Hopefully it will put a bit of weight back on because it is tricky trying to get insulin into just skin. Is it the insulin which has given him this appetite ?? [/QUOTE]
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