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<blockquote data-quote="Mep" data-source="post: 1114785" data-attributes="member: 211362"><p>unfortunately for me I've had IBS-D ever since I've been taken off metformin, so it's like the metformin side effects never stopped... that was over 6 years ago I stopped it too. They've diagnosed me with IBS-D since then. I definitely didn't have any issues with my bowel or my digestive tract for that matter prior to metformin. I'm not sure whether 5 years of not tolerating a drug upset things for me, triggered things or what. I wished I was more assertive with insisting they take me off it, instead of just putting up with side effects and the endless changes to dosages by docs when I complained to try and get me to tolerate it. For some reason docs think metformin is like a miracle drug for diabetes and insist type 2's have to be on it. I remember the lectures I got how it's important I stay on it because it's the only drug for insulin resistance. I don't want to scare people.... but from my own experience I'd tell anyone to do your absolute best to get off it if you keep having side effects... if I had my time again I'd probably try a full on tantrum to get my point across instead of being polite about it. If it works for you I'd imagine you should only have a very short term of side effects and then be ok on it and function well, plus see results. A lot of people are fine, but there's a group of us that aren't. But then that's the nature of all drugs really.... they either work or they don't, tolerated or they aren't. It so happens I'm sensitive to a lot of drugs and have had some bad reactions over the past 6 years (non diabetic drugs). It does make a docs job hard for people like myself I suppose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mep, post: 1114785, member: 211362"] unfortunately for me I've had IBS-D ever since I've been taken off metformin, so it's like the metformin side effects never stopped... that was over 6 years ago I stopped it too. They've diagnosed me with IBS-D since then. I definitely didn't have any issues with my bowel or my digestive tract for that matter prior to metformin. I'm not sure whether 5 years of not tolerating a drug upset things for me, triggered things or what. I wished I was more assertive with insisting they take me off it, instead of just putting up with side effects and the endless changes to dosages by docs when I complained to try and get me to tolerate it. For some reason docs think metformin is like a miracle drug for diabetes and insist type 2's have to be on it. I remember the lectures I got how it's important I stay on it because it's the only drug for insulin resistance. I don't want to scare people.... but from my own experience I'd tell anyone to do your absolute best to get off it if you keep having side effects... if I had my time again I'd probably try a full on tantrum to get my point across instead of being polite about it. If it works for you I'd imagine you should only have a very short term of side effects and then be ok on it and function well, plus see results. A lot of people are fine, but there's a group of us that aren't. But then that's the nature of all drugs really.... they either work or they don't, tolerated or they aren't. It so happens I'm sensitive to a lot of drugs and have had some bad reactions over the past 6 years (non diabetic drugs). It does make a docs job hard for people like myself I suppose. [/QUOTE]
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