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I'm wondering if anyone suffers from achy muscles whilst taking Metformin FC.
I wake up extremely stiff and sore every morning.
What do I do? :(
 
Hi Lee,
You need to report your symptoms to your G.P. asap. It may be the side effects of the medication and it is best to be on the safe side.

Hope this helps,
Catherine.
 
Yes I was, but it stopped when I stopped the simvastatin
 
Lee said:
I'm wondering if anyone suffers from achy muscles whilst taking Metformin FC.
I wake up extremely stiff and sore every morning.
What do I do? :(
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Hello Lee and welcome to the forum. :)

I would recommend that you go to see your gp for a check up since the metformin may well be a red herring in all this. It could well be something quite unrelated; having diabetes does not make you immune to anything else - in fact far from it! :roll:
 
I suffer this as well, most of the time my feet ache and the toes are very sensitive, terrible cramps at night and sometimes during the day, knees, wrists the lot
I have also had my hips resurfaced (Rugby and Parachuting accidents) and the pain in those can be eye watering at times :cry:

It has all got worse on Metformin, yet if I can off, I feel terrible and the sugar levels jump

any thoughts
 
Chris.Strike
If you ar using only small doses of Metormin and the pain is definitely down to that cause, how about asking your doctor if you could try diet only and then go to a low carb, low GI/GL, small portion way of eaing?
It MIGHT work
Hana
 
Chris.Strike said:
I suffer this as well, most of the time my feet ache and the toes are very sensitive, terrible cramps at night and sometimes during the day, knees, wrists the lot
I have also had my hips resurfaced (Rugby and Parachuting accidents) and the pain in those can be eye watering at times :cry:

It has all got worse on Metformin, yet if I can off, I feel terrible and the sugar levels jump

any thoughts
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Quite a lot of things going on there Chris, your best bet would be to speak with your gp and mention everything you have said here. As you say it has 'got worse on Metformin' implies that you already had these symptoms beforehand, so it may be unrelated to your meds, either way always best to get these things checked out.

Best wishes

Nigel
 
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