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Having nursed clients suffering from anorexia nervosa, I can assure you it is not a condition that you would want to be suffering with.
Catherine.
Catherine.
I agree totally, that's why I find the side effect of metformin slightly disturbing as I can see a reduction in my appetite and have developed some quite strange habits like cutting food up into a certain number of portions etc. Sure it is probably psychological [I read the side-effects and convince myself I have them, like the metfartin joke, yet my kids say I am no worse than I was in that department :lol: ] but non the less ironic having a few stones to lose.catherinecherub said:Having nursed clients suffering from anorexia nervosa, I can assure you it is not a condition that you would want to be suffering with.
Catherine.
catherinecherub said:Having nursed clients suffering from anorexia nervosa, I can assure you it is not a condition that you would want to be suffering with.
Catherine.
I was the same but my levels have started to fall [been on it 3 months] but it's amazing how even when they drop you want them to drop morepeppiB said:Must admit that since I started using Metformin (just 10 days ago) I have noticed a great fall off in appetite but no reduction in post meal BG levels. Will persevere til I am back with medics in another 11 days. I could do with losing a few more pounds anyway!!
Thanks, apart from my 'scratch' curry with lentils and rice that sent me rocketing to 10.5...learned my lesson yet againsugarless sue said:8 after eating that drops back to 5's sounds OK to me,Sam.
samcogle said:I was the same but my levels have started to fall [been on it 3 months] but it's amazing how even when they drop you want them to drop morepeppiB said:Must admit that since I started using Metformin (just 10 days ago) I have noticed a great fall off in appetite but no reduction in post meal BG levels. Will persevere til I am back with medics in another 11 days. I could do with losing a few more pounds anyway!!
What are your levels before a meal and then after? I had this problem but as someone pointed out on here everyones BS level go up after eating so if the rise is not significant it is probably fine
I complained that before a meal my BS would be 6 and then say 8 after eating. Apparently that's ok as it's a small increase. I was eating and expecting my level to drop :lol:
Yes could be. I know it freaked her out as she was very ill at the time and had been hospitalised so the last thing her mum wanted to hear was that she had an eating disorder!!catherinecherub said:Hi sam,
I think with regard to the Dr. and anorexia it was just a bad choice of words. He may have thought she had started to deliberately stop eating in order to lose some weight. Anyone in their teens/early twenties with a rapid, unexplained weightloss usually gets asked if they are neglecting to eat properly.
Catherine.