Metformin

Hi and welcome,

I have always been diet only, but from what others say on the forum it is normally temporary and should go away in a couple of weeks. If it doesn't there is a slow release version (SR) that is kinder on the tummy. You could ask your doctor about it. Metformin is an appetite suppressant, so that will explain why you have lost yours.

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I had to go on the slow release Metformin because I had really bad effect especially when it was put up to 3 a day. I lost a lot weight but being on the borderline of being underweight 1/2 a stone was a lot to loose but now I am okay on the slow release just one a day so hope that keeps the blood sugar down enough that this does not have to be increased.

 

Exactly the same thing happened to me. I was told it would wear off and it didn't. I felt permanently nauseous and got to the point where I had to dash to the loo to avoid accidents, I persevered for 11 weeks and then just stopped one morning. I was on the point of taking the pill and was actually sick... thought ..that's enough.. and just dropped them in the bin.
The LCHF diet keeps my BG levels at 48 which the surgery are happy with so they haven't pushed me to take anything else.

 

Hi. I started with the SR version but had the metallic taste side effect for 6 months but no nausea. Since the 6 months many years ago everything is normal.

 

Mine settled after a couple of months, really sick to start with I'm on 2 x 500mg twice a day

 

I take 500mg of the SR version once a day any more than that and I totally loose my appetite but I have never had any nausea while taking them

 

FYI

"Goat's rue, French lilac, Italian fitch, and professor weed are all names for the same plant: Galega officinalis. This perennial herb, 3 feet tall and with purple, blue, or white flowers, was used in folk medicine to treat diabetes starting in the Middle Ages, maybe earlier. Though it gave rise to metformin, one of the most popular diabetes medications in the world, G. officinalis is now widely considered poisonous. In the early 20th century, researchers isolated a compound from G. officinalis called guanidine, which could lower blood glucose levels in animals but was also toxic. Chemists found that they could make the compound more tolerable by bonding two guanidines together, forming a biguanide. Metformin is one such biguanide, first synthesized in 1929 and then clinically developed in the late 1950s by the French physician Jean Sterne, who gave it its first trade name, Glucophage ("glucose eater")."

http://www.diabetesforecast.org/2010/dec/the-origins-of-metformin.html

 

Metformin has long been recognised as an appetite suppressant and is sometimes given to non-diabetics as an aid to weight loss. Hence it appears to have more benefit for diabetics that are over weight.