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In hospital due to kidney problem after metformin. They are doing some tests . I’m scared .
Anyone with kidney problem after metformin?
Anyone with kidney problem after metformin?
Useless comment, sorry, just wanted to send you a big hug.In hospital due to kidney problem after metformin. They are doing some tests . I’m scared .
Anyone with kidney problem after metformin?
My sister is a nephrologist and she thinks metformin makes me prone to UTI because it increases sugar in guts and bacteria like sugar so poop has more bacteria .
Kidney issues with metformin are very uncommen but not unknown. (less then 10 cases for 100,000 patient years) When I started on Metformin I looked at the risks and was more concerned about being run over while crossing the road to collect the Metformin then the increased risk of Lactic acidosis.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic acidosis for some additional information.
This is very confused, I expect you have misunderstood something she siad.
Stopping as many drugs as possible when the kidneys are having problems makes total sence as it reduced the work the kidney have to do removing the byproducts of the drugs being broken down.
Thanks . Do you have any reference for these statistics ? It will help me a lot :
“less then 10 cases for 100,000 patient years”
Having diabetes really increases the chances of having a UTI quite a lot and some diabetics are more prone to them than others. I have not personally ever heard of anyone having an UTI actually caused by metformin but I suppose if someone already has kidney problems it may not help itGit back home
Thanks for your support ️
There was blood in my urine which was so scary , so much pain in my kidney , I was in agony , creatinine was on higher side , had ketones in my urine and had fever , nausea, and dizziness .
But no infection was detected because I was already on antibiotics.
My sister is a nephrologist and she thinks metformin makes me prone to UTI because it increases sugar in guts and bacteria like sugar so poop has more bacteria .
Also she thinks UTI itself , like any infection, increases blood sugar .
She is overseas and she was worried about lactic acidosis so she wanted to go to hospital and also test kidney function .
But we know as a fact it’s metformin. When I stop it , I get better. Endocrinologist does not want to believe it.
Being alone on Christmas was bad enough (bf went to his ex ) , I had to go to hospital too , alone .