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I was diagnosed Type 2 just over a ago. Prior to the diagnosis and ever since I have been suffering the most prolific sweating-mainly head and neck (not sweaty palms etc) and it is literally driving me mad. Have told several of the GPs in my group practice and also DN - none of whom seem to...

I have been told to stop taking MetforminSR 2 weeks ago because I have got Lichen Planus all over m y legs, arms upper back and scalp. The first week I didn't feel too bad but this week I feel really unwell, shivering, headachy a bit like a bad dose of flu. My BG level has gone up quite a bit...

Thanks for all your views and advice. I have now been off Metformin for 2 days. I have to test 4 times a day and if there is any significant change in my readings let DN or GP know otherwise after a couple of weeks test twice a day and see what happens with the Lichen Planus - whether it...

FOr the past six months I have been suffering from Lichen Planus, a rather unsightly, although not contagious, skin complaint. This has not responded to treatment with steroid creams and oinments and the Dermatologist now suspects it is being caused by a reaction to taking Metformin since the...

Metformin SR has, in my case, meant far less "bowel" problems than the bogstandard variety. I was told to take two after evening meal and have found that more palatable. However, as has been said before, we all react differently to drugs of any kind and, for me, the Metformin SR I am pretty...

I was put on Metformin SR last November and during the following month started itching and coming out in a rash. Just after Christmas went to the GP and was taken off Ramipril which had also been prescribed for High Blood Pressure around the same time as I started on the Metformin SR...

Re: Guardian: Diabetes patients at risk from medication mist I was called in to my surgery and told that as I was diabetic now, they were changing my heart/blood pressure medication from Irbesartan to Ramipril "as it's better suited to diabetics". Within four weeks I had started itching and...

Thanks again to all of you who have given me your advice and tips to try out. To vivienem - yes I guess I am well and truly past the menopause at 72 unless I have some sort of freak hormone problem! I will try your suggestion re taking the Metformin in two separate doses instead of one after...

Thanks Truffle for your reply. Well done for resisting scraping the bowl! I know what you have said is right and I just hope I can quickly feel that way too instead of at the moment feeling extremely hard done by, as I said, giving up virtually everthing else and now having to give up the...

Thanks to all of you for your help and various suggestions. I find one gets such conflicting views from people I know who are diabetic. Some tell me that if readings are under 10 all the time there is nothing to worry about so if I eat something with sugar or high carbs and am under that...

I was diagnosed T2 almost a year ago now and have lost 2 stone in weight and reduced my HBA1C from an initial 12.7 down to 7.8 in February which GP states is "going in the right direction." However this last couple of weeks I have taken a reading a good three hours after my evening meal...

I have had a really virulent chest and urinary infection over the last three weeks and been on Keflex and Doxycycline antibiotics which dont seem to have cleared things up. I am T2 and take 2 x 500 Metformin SR a day and whilst I have been taking these antibiotics, my BS seems to have risen...

Thank you all for your advice - you have put my mind at rest that it is the Metformin and the slight change in eating pattern. I was just concerned as I have never found it easy to lose weight in the past so to lose almost two stone in 6 months was a bit frightening. Have just had three...

I was diagnosed Type 2 last August and am on 2 x 500mg Metformin daily. I am getting worried since I have lost nearly 2 stone in that time although, apart from cutting out cakes, swapped bread for Ryvita, I have not drastically altered my diet. My morning fasting reading is around 7 - 8...

Thanks for all your replies. Obviously the white rolls must be given the heave-ho in future. The only reason I tested after about an hour was a once off as I just wanted to see how eating affected the readings. I have previously only tested fasting and before/2hours after food and those...

I have been told I am type 2 and have had one HB1Ac reading (wasn't told what it was). Have been put on Metformin as a result (2 x 500 at present). My fasting reading and that a couple of hours or so after eating seem to be around 7 - 8 but I took a reading this afternoon about one hour after...

Since being diagnosed in August with T2 I have suffered from the most horrendous tiredness and feel like a rag doll most of the time. I have to get up three times or more a night to go to the loo which obviously constantly breaks my sleep and is a factor but it it unlike any other tiredness I...

I know exactly how you feel. Have been having profust sweating in the early hours through till mid-morning and it drives me mad. I do have an underactive thyroid as well for which I take thyroxine so it could be like Anna says something to do with that. Was only diagnosed in August but...

My excessive head sweating continues unabated and is driving me insane. Makes me feel uinclean and not want to socialise but just stay indoors and even do my shopping on the net. I was having this problem prior to being officially diagnosed T2 but not nearly so bad. Is this a known...

Hello Sparkjack. Thanks for your post and I will enquire about the slow-release Metformin when I see the Diabetic nurse tomorrow. You may be right about the heart med causing the sweats as I have had these for some time now, in fact I was wondering whether they could be hormonal related...