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

Very sorry. I didn't know that he did it to you too. At the rate we are
going, we will all be killfiled by him. And I would love to killfile him
but I fear that his advice could be dangerous to any newbies who might come
here.