Coming off Metformin

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Johosephat

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Since Jan 2021 I've been on 4 x 500mg Metformin. Today I received a call from the doctor saying I can stop taking them.

When I first started taking Metformin I had stomach issues and my short distance vision temporarily deteriorated hugely. Thankfully both of these resolved themselves after a few weeks.

Has anyone in the group experienced any symptoms to be aware of when they stopped taking Metformin?
 
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The vision changes are likely to have been from reducing your blood glucose, not a direct side effect of the metformin.
Vision changes when bg changes, so if your numbers won't go significantly up after stopping the metformin you shouldn't expect anything like that.
 
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We are all individual in our responses, but I am in the process of doing the same, only I have cut back to half and intend to cut out the other half in a couple of weeks IF my BG stays in the non-diabetic range. So far it has.
 
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I never had any issues nor saw any changes in glucose levels when I stopped SR metformin. But apart from a couple of time when I got bad cases of the runs from eating too many carbs, and with one brand that disagreed in general with me, I never had any other issues when I was actually taking it either.
 
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I had no problem when I took Metformin, when I stopped taking it several years later I cut the dose back after a GP discussion, till I stopped taking them all together.

I had no problem coming off them either.
 
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