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<blockquote data-quote="Noa" data-source="post: 1990287" data-attributes="member: 499645"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Hello everyone</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I was due to start the Newcastle Diet on Friday 1st February but actually on that day I was unwell and had to cancel and reschedule an appointment as I felt too ill to leave the house. On Saturday morning I was violently sick, developed awful abdominal pain, which continued into Sunday. Because I hadn't eaten much and hadn't been able to keep anything down, I opted to use the Asda Great Shape shakes as an easy way to 'eat' and I drank plenty of fluids. Those shakes are one of the recommended products for the Newcastle Diet. By Tuesday I was no better and had to go to bed, and the rest of that week is a blur really. The pain was truly awful and at one point I thought it might be a flare up of diverticulitis so began a course of antibiotics as my GP is kind enough to allow me to always keep some in for this very reason, not that it happens regularly. But in addition to the pain and the nausea and vomiting etc, I did have bleeding and what I call 'liver lumps' within the blood. Forgive me if this is too much information as I'm just trying to explain what was going on. So I stopped the drinks, started the antibiotics, stayed in bed as much as I could and somehow survived on water, mint tea and clear soup. I also stopped taking the Metformin as we weren't sure if it was causing the problems. Happily, the antibiotics seemed to do the trick, the pain eventually subsided, the bleeding stopped and I was able to get up and stay up, but I've been so exhausted it seems to have taken me days to feel something like human again. I started the Metformin again on Thursday evening with my meal, and yesterday I had two of the shakes, one for breakfast and one for lunch. Unfortunately, the pain is back and I don't know if it's the shakes causing it or the Metformin having got back into my system.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I won't have the shake drinks again, and I've decided to stop the Metformin altogether. Will I be okay not taking it? Throughout all of this my numbers have been good. One strange thing that did happen is that I lost a stone in weight but when I stopped taking the Metformin due to the pain etc, I put almost half a stone back on almost immediately! Is that common?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Apologies for jumping around all over the place in this post, it's the first chance I've had to return to the forum since I posted last.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">My appointments have come through for Diabetes Clinic Course - 7th March - and retinopathy scan - 15th March. I will mention all of this at clinic and see what they say but just wondered if general view is that Metformin is likely culprit?</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Noa, post: 1990287, member: 499645"] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]Hello everyone[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]I was due to start the Newcastle Diet on Friday 1st February but actually on that day I was unwell and had to cancel and reschedule an appointment as I felt too ill to leave the house. On Saturday morning I was violently sick, developed awful abdominal pain, which continued into Sunday. Because I hadn't eaten much and hadn't been able to keep anything down, I opted to use the Asda Great Shape shakes as an easy way to 'eat' and I drank plenty of fluids. Those shakes are one of the recommended products for the Newcastle Diet. By Tuesday I was no better and had to go to bed, and the rest of that week is a blur really. The pain was truly awful and at one point I thought it might be a flare up of diverticulitis so began a course of antibiotics as my GP is kind enough to allow me to always keep some in for this very reason, not that it happens regularly. But in addition to the pain and the nausea and vomiting etc, I did have bleeding and what I call 'liver lumps' within the blood. Forgive me if this is too much information as I'm just trying to explain what was going on. So I stopped the drinks, started the antibiotics, stayed in bed as much as I could and somehow survived on water, mint tea and clear soup. I also stopped taking the Metformin as we weren't sure if it was causing the problems. Happily, the antibiotics seemed to do the trick, the pain eventually subsided, the bleeding stopped and I was able to get up and stay up, but I've been so exhausted it seems to have taken me days to feel something like human again. I started the Metformin again on Thursday evening with my meal, and yesterday I had two of the shakes, one for breakfast and one for lunch. Unfortunately, the pain is back and I don't know if it's the shakes causing it or the Metformin having got back into my system.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]I won't have the shake drinks again, and I've decided to stop the Metformin altogether. Will I be okay not taking it? Throughout all of this my numbers have been good. One strange thing that did happen is that I lost a stone in weight but when I stopped taking the Metformin due to the pain etc, I put almost half a stone back on almost immediately! Is that common?[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Apologies for jumping around all over the place in this post, it's the first chance I've had to return to the forum since I posted last.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]My appointments have come through for Diabetes Clinic Course - 7th March - and retinopathy scan - 15th March. I will mention all of this at clinic and see what they say but just wondered if general view is that Metformin is likely culprit?[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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