metformin

Hi All, My consultant has recommended I try metformin as I’m quite insulin resistant and it should help. I know I’m Type 1 so it’s probably not used as much for us but I’m wondering if anyone has any advice for limiting possible side effects, how they’ve found it etc. I’ll be starting on once a...

I'm looking for some advice so here's the back story in brief. Diagnosed Type 2 in 2016. Put into reversal/remittance with in 8months by losing 20kg, yoga and low carb/cal at 40g per day. No meds. HaB1c 38 from 64 Last year thing started to slide and HaB1c started rapid rise. I kept thinking I...

Hello :) I’ve tried taking Metformin XR to reverse my insulin resistance but when I took it I felt so depressed, so miserable, and I couldn’t get out of bed in the morning despite me being a very overly energetic person. The GI problems were a piece of cake, they went away after a couple of...

From research and past convos I see that the XR formulation should *not* be cut in half - the reason being it essentially will dissolve faster and not as per the XR spec. I don’t see how this really matters. If you are in XR because of gastro tolerance issues then yes I can see cutting the pill...

Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening ? At the age of 50, I was misdiagnosed as T2 in 2017 .I attempted to control my diabetes with sensible eating and tablets etc.( and eventually after about 4 years I started to use basal insulin in the mornings as well ) I recently...

I have been on Metformin for years. But over time my BG levels have been going up and up... So much so that in the morning my fasting levels would be in the 11-15 range. About a month ago, I decided to stop taking Metformin. To my surprise the following day, my levels were a little lower than...

The metformin tablets I took this morning had a 'C' on one side and '323'. Seemed strange so I opened a new box and found '500' on one side and the other side blank. The leaflet in the newly opened box says this is what the marking should be. Why then is the other different?

Hello there, I’m a type 2 diabetic. My diabetes is currently well controlled with metformin (500mg x2 twice daily). I am starting to weight train and build muscle and interested in taking creatine supplements because it seems to be really beneficial for not only building muscle but for women...

Hi all and a HNY I’ve had diabetes type 2 for about a decade now and my hba1c has fluctuated between 48 and somewhere in the 90s. I’ve regularly taken metformin to hopefully manage this. Mid 2023 it had shot up to 68 so I was put on Jardiance then in September I was out on a bike ride and...

Hi everyone, thanks for allowing me in! I am pre diabetic and weigh 25 stone. Clearly what I have is more than just a situation of "eat less, lose weight" as there are mental issues involved as I was neglected and starved as a child and now food is the whole world to me! I am not yet...

Hi Everyone. A bit of an odd situation. I have a history of repeated acute pancreatitis (because of a non standard pancreas shape) and till now have been lucky with my pancreas health. However have just had a particularly bad bout or pancreatitis after some surgery and I think its been the...

Hi everyone I have been diagnosed Type 2 since February ‘23, and ramped up on Metformin to now being at 2g daily. HbA1C at diagnosis was 89, now 49. All good - however, for the past several months I have been increasingly itchy all over. I have been for a neuropathy test which came back...

I'm hoping I've posted in the correct place but apologies if I haven't. Ok, so brief background . . I've had covid twice - in November 2022 and again in June 2023. My Hba1c has steadily been increasing and my most recent Hba1c was 80. Advised to increase my prolonged release Metformin to 4x...

Both myself and my husband are type 2 and very overweight. the last two weeks we have been fasting 16:8 and 18-19:6 and slowly moving towards low carb. I have lost weight and he hasn’t lost as much, the difference being he still takes 2000mg daily and I just stopped. I suggested the failure to...

I've been on Januvia (one 100mg tablet after lunch every day) for about a fortnight now. I also take 2 500mg of metformin a day, one after breakfast and one after dinner. The Januvia was prescribed by my endo after i tried to go up to 3 metformin a day and couldn't handle the GI distress...

Hi .My husbands blood sugar was good after his amputation in September until after Christmas .His blood sugar went to 9 in a morning gradually to 18 , increasing by. 1 every week. The Hba1c came back at 71 in March. He was on metformin and gliclazide 80 mg bd. He is now on gliclazide 120 mg bd...

Good afternoon all. This is my first post. I was diagnosed type 2 7 weeks ago HbA1c a little over 100 and over 4 weeks built up to 4x500mg Metformin per day. Not testing bloods myself at the moment. I have a blood test in 5 weeks. I have lost 8kg, and my BMI has dropped from 31 to 28. This is...

Type 1 diabetic having good success with appetite control and weight loss with 500mg metformin 4x/d and 10mg CBD 1x/d. Also am taking 30mg/d biofisitin and 100mg/d resveratrol and various other longevity supplements. CBD is my new addition and it is making me less anxious. By itself it doesn't...

Hi, Metformin! Can anyone explain what the side effects connected to eyesight are please? I can’t seem to find anything specific. Thank you

Hi all Ive been lurking a few years. Here in Perth Aus, some 40 years behind, only type 1 2 and gestational is recognised. I KNOW I am not type 2 as diagnosed and do not respond to a whole range of diabetes drugs. All the symptoms including mouth ulcers and systemic canidasis are there even when...