On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 23:35:57 -0700, in alt.food.diabetic, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Karen" > wrote in message
.. .
>> 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.

I know. Too bad he came back. Anyone who disagrees with him is
either killfiled, accused of lying, or accused of being crabby. He
pulled this garbage on me last year.