"Todd" > wrote in message
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> 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.

Really? Gee... I have been on it for something like 14 years now. I know
others who take it as well. None of us are crabby or delusional or paranoid
and I certainly don't think Wendy is any of those things.

You, OTOH going on about losing a foot... Well... Just sayin'.
>
> 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.

I think the rest of us here would be aware of it if she was. And she isn't.
I can't even imagine what she would have said to have come across as crabby
to you. However, I am sure that *I* am perceived as crabby to you because
my BS detector goes off big time with pretty much everything you say here
and I got sick of you posting the Mark's Daily Apple crap.
>
> 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.

Um... I think if *this* were true, it would be widely talked about. And it
sure is not.
>
> 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.

Metformin is not poison. Maybe it didn't work for you. If it were poison,
it wouldn't be widely available.
>
> 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

Oh puleeeze!!!!!