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Advice please comming off of metformin

Enclave

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Type of diabetes
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Diet only
After 10 months of taking Metformin which at the start payed havoc with my stomach (pain) it then settled down .. Then my tabs were reduced from 4 a day to 3-- 2 -- then one .. Now have had them stopped .. I have a lot of stomach pain again like when I first started taking the tabs .. Anyone else had this problem .. Or have I got a bug !!!!!!
 
I would never stop Metforminas it took me 6 months to get on 1x500mg,I do know my BS has gone down with diet and advice from this forum,but i know there will be a time when I have to go on it again and I have no intention of going through stonach pains again feeling sick bad heads,and feeling very stressed.
I have no idea why you feel bad now,may be like a lot of meds it should be a gradual stop.
I would get advice from your Dr
 

Why are you stopping?
 
Was told to stop them by the DB nurse after my blood came back normal .... Again !
I do have heart failure and don't think they are to good with the heart problems !
 
I have never read anything about heart problems with Metformin.
 
I don't think I've seen any problems coming off metforin, others may have done it though, and advise differently.
Maybe it is a bug.
 
No problem .. Thank you for your advice ... As I have said in other threads my Dr is not intrested in seeing me so have to deal with ill informed nurses .. It no so painful now !
 
Well done for getting in the normal range
 
Oh, I've been on 2 tablets of metformin until today when I was told to just stop them. I'll let you know if I have any problems. Although I didn't really have problems when I started taking them (I discovered it wasn't a good idea to wash them down with beer, but that was all)
 
Feeling fine now .. Thanks for the replys
 
Thanks Jane, just need to stop stress raising my sugar levels now
 
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