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<blockquote data-quote="Gloucestergirl" data-source="post: 1606743" data-attributes="member: 54959"><p>I was on Metformin for over 10 years as well as two types of insulin and apart from stomach problems when I went on to three a day it seemed to suit me, so I thought. I'm one of those people who isn't and never has been overweight and over the years my appetite wasn't very good. In May 2016 I started to feel extremely tired, more like exhausted and a blood test showed that my B12 was low. This is one of the side effects of Metformin. I had to have five B12 injections over a couple of weeks and my B12 went back up. As my appetite still wasn't good and it is known as an appetite suppressant as it's given to overweight people which I wasn't and because of the B12 deficiency I thought I would try stopping the tablets for a couple of days - it was miraculous. My appetite came back straight away so I went for a week without them but thought I had better start taking them again. When I saw my diabetes nurse for my annual checkup in January 2017 I mentioned to her that I had stopped them temporarily a few months before and she asked how my sugar levels were and when I told her that they hadn't changed she told me to stay off them so I haven't been taking them now for ten months. I don't know if my B12 went back down but presumably it didn't as it was only six months from the B12 injections to when I eventually stopped. My sugar levels have been very good lately, good in the day apart from the odd high one when I've been a bit naughty and just occasionally have to adjust my Novorapid but they can also be high before bed, but I think is might be due to the Lantus wearing off too soon.</p><p></p><p>One other problem I have recently discovered is to do with the blood pressure tablets that I have been on for many years, not that I had high blood pressure but because the doctor said that as I have a higher risk of heart disease because of the diabetes I need to be on them (yet my twin sister who also has diabetes has never been prescribed blood pressure tablets). I started on Ramipril but was changed to Amlodipine, which I have been on for six years. I am being investigated for very low levels of blood platelets and guess what, one of the rare side effects of Amlodipine is low platelets! I am seeing the Haematology consultant tomorrow and will mention to him about the link between the Amlodpine and platelets but I would have thought that my doctor should have put two and two together in all the times she has asked for the many blood tests to check my platelets. I only found out the link after reading that low platelets can be drug induced and by Googling low platelets and Amlodipine I found evidence that they do. I also read the patient information sheet that comes with the tablets and down in all the small print was that 1 in 10,000 people have low platelets. I am hoping that this is the cause and that just stopping the BP tablet will bring them back up to normal. It seems that the medication prescribed for diabetes and many other health issues is actually doing us more harm than if we didn't take them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gloucestergirl, post: 1606743, member: 54959"] I was on Metformin for over 10 years as well as two types of insulin and apart from stomach problems when I went on to three a day it seemed to suit me, so I thought. I'm one of those people who isn't and never has been overweight and over the years my appetite wasn't very good. In May 2016 I started to feel extremely tired, more like exhausted and a blood test showed that my B12 was low. This is one of the side effects of Metformin. I had to have five B12 injections over a couple of weeks and my B12 went back up. As my appetite still wasn't good and it is known as an appetite suppressant as it's given to overweight people which I wasn't and because of the B12 deficiency I thought I would try stopping the tablets for a couple of days - it was miraculous. My appetite came back straight away so I went for a week without them but thought I had better start taking them again. When I saw my diabetes nurse for my annual checkup in January 2017 I mentioned to her that I had stopped them temporarily a few months before and she asked how my sugar levels were and when I told her that they hadn't changed she told me to stay off them so I haven't been taking them now for ten months. I don't know if my B12 went back down but presumably it didn't as it was only six months from the B12 injections to when I eventually stopped. My sugar levels have been very good lately, good in the day apart from the odd high one when I've been a bit naughty and just occasionally have to adjust my Novorapid but they can also be high before bed, but I think is might be due to the Lantus wearing off too soon. One other problem I have recently discovered is to do with the blood pressure tablets that I have been on for many years, not that I had high blood pressure but because the doctor said that as I have a higher risk of heart disease because of the diabetes I need to be on them (yet my twin sister who also has diabetes has never been prescribed blood pressure tablets). I started on Ramipril but was changed to Amlodipine, which I have been on for six years. I am being investigated for very low levels of blood platelets and guess what, one of the rare side effects of Amlodipine is low platelets! I am seeing the Haematology consultant tomorrow and will mention to him about the link between the Amlodpine and platelets but I would have thought that my doctor should have put two and two together in all the times she has asked for the many blood tests to check my platelets. I only found out the link after reading that low platelets can be drug induced and by Googling low platelets and Amlodipine I found evidence that they do. I also read the patient information sheet that comes with the tablets and down in all the small print was that 1 in 10,000 people have low platelets. I am hoping that this is the cause and that just stopping the BP tablet will bring them back up to normal. It seems that the medication prescribed for diabetes and many other health issues is actually doing us more harm than if we didn't take them. [/QUOTE]
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