"Karen" > wrote in message
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> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
> What a piece of work you are.

Yes he is. And here I thought he had left.