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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonnnyx" data-source="post: 1495477" data-attributes="member: 36810">Hello i have had Diabetes since 1999 --of course i was then on the Norm metformin  but the diabetic nurse said after 7 years it's time to go on insulin  ?? i was controlling my diabetes  ok  but she said it was time to go on insulin  and after a few months i came off the metformin as  i was controlling my sugar better with the slow release insulin the metformin well what can i say i had had diarrhoea  for years and found out that was the cause  so i stopped taking metformin  and just used the insulin. the doctor agreed.i now have changed Doctors  as my old doctor retiredI went to see the Doctor  about getting off the insulin  and he prescribed  the 1000mg metformin releasing tablet   which is helping me reduce my insulin but at what cost.  i thought i was not having any side effects  well no Diarrhoea.  I have been having headaches, always tired, and the worse one---Life-threatening allergic reaction called <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/anaphylaxis/guide/" target="_blank">anaphylaxis</a>, in which you may have trouble breathing, your tongue swells and/or throat closes up,i have had to got hospital 7 times in england and once in tenerife  for injections to make me breatheQuestion  Can the Metformin SR  cause my B12 Deficiency</blockquote>

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