On Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:15:32 -0700, in alt.food.diabetic, Todd
> wrote:

>On 10/01/2014 04:59 PM, W. Baker wrote:
>> Todd > wrote:
>> : On 10/01/2014 11:10 AM, Ian Field wrote:
>> : >
>> : >
>> : > "Todd" > wrote in message
>> : > ...
>> : >> On 09/30/2014 08:56 AM, Ian Field wrote:
>> : Hi Ian,
>>
>> : Metformin is nasty stuff. Makes your hair fall out, gives you
>> : (sometimes permanent) insomnia, skin spots, and worst of all,
>> : it makes you paranoid delusional. Yep everybody is picking
>> : on you! It also has a rebound effect. When I initially went
>> : drug free, each time I backed off on the dosage of Metformin,
>> : my blood sugar went down. I also had to do A LOT of apologizing
>> : to people I lashed out at. Fortunately, they all forgave me.
>>
>>
>>
>> I find this strange as I have been on Metformin now for some 17-18 years
>> with none of the effects you, tidd, have experienced. I will grant that
>> some peol ehave bad results with different drugs, but one's own personal
>> bad experience may well NOT be universal. If a drug causes problems for
>> you you you should no be taking it, but that does nt mean that other folk
>> should stop taking it if it works adn does not cause them your smptoms.
>>
>> Wendy
>
>Hi Wendy,
> The depression (crabbiness) and delusional paranoia creep up on you.
>
> You may not be aware of it. I certainly was not aware of it until
>I got off it. I truly though everyone was picking on me. When
>I got off it, oh boy, did I have a lot of apologizing to do.
>You have shown signs of the crabbiness to me in the past. The
>way you can figure it out is to ask someone close to you that you
>can trust to give you the unvarnished truth if you have become
>a crabass.
>
> People that can not longer sleep had it sneak up on them too.
>They have said in blogs they never recovered and were not
>able to sleep again.
>
> And don't forget the rebound effect. Met is an allopathic drug,
>meaning it is a controlled dosage of a poison meant to cause
>a desired reaction. This can save your life. But over the long run,
>your body will rebound to it. My blood sugar dropped each time
>I backed off on the stuff.
>
> You have been on Met for a long time and know how to cook
>low(er) carb. You may be healed by now and not need it. If
>you get off it to see, be careful when the "dark curtain" lifts.
>You might suddenly start enjoying things and people around you.
>
>:-)
>
>-T
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>
>

What a piece of work you are.