Re: metaformin .......here goes
Sue Morton said:
Sorry keep gabling on just try controlling with your food rather then 4xmetformin
That is the comment in this thread I noticed - possibly Sue means take less metformin rather than none, but it's not clear. Also another poster mentioned earlier that the OP might have to go back to diet only because of the side effects - true but is that a particularly helpful comment to someone who has just started taking it? Something like 'keep an eye on any side effects, if they are a problem try the slow release version, if the problems persist you might have to go back to diet only' would be more reassuring.
Your post also implies that medication is something to be avoided, that diet must be tried first, that diet only is best, that having to take medication is a failure. You might not have intended that, but that is how it reads. There are many other posts with similar comments eg things like 'I have to take metformin
' 'if you eat this and work hard at your diet you can delay having to take metformin and you might never have too! (again implying metformin is something to be avoided)'. Those are not real posts, just the type of stuff I often see.
It's so irritating, constantly reading that diet only is best, that it is the ideal, that medication is to be avoided at all costs, which all implies that to take medication is to fail. It's really not helpful for someone newly diagnosed to read, or for someone who has high blood sugar and needs to increase their medication.
Metformin was wonderful to start with, I felt better within days. glitazide was even more amazing, it started working immediately. For a few days, Until I got a very bad cold at least. And then they said opps you are type 1, and the insulin also worked immediately, I had no idea how much I had been affected by diabetes for years. Everything is better now. I feel so much more alert, so much more 'with it', there is none of the strange fatigue, there is none of the tiredness. The thought of people struggling with high blood sugar and putting off medication is terrible. No one should suffer like that, no one should feel like a failure for taking medication.
Also, google metformin benefits. I don't think I have ever read anything negative about metformin side effects, other than gut related and lactic acidosis which is very rare. Can't see any reason to avoid it really. Apart from if it makes you ill so your food isn't digested and you have a hypo from the insulin you also take like it does with me...