"Todd" > wrote in message
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> On 10/01/2014 08:32 PM, W. Baker wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> I am not regarded as a crabby person and at 78 am active and happy,
>> having
>> adjusted to the loss of my husban now 4 years ago. Healed I am not and
>> I
>> was off the Met for a few weeks this summer when Ihad a stomach upset
>> that
>> was not severe, but was prolonged. I was taken off pretty much al my Met
>> adn was also eating remarkably little, so little that I lost 15 lbs in a
>> few week(3-4) I am now back onthe Met and am tryign to maintain the
>> weight loss which was the first time since my big weigt oss of 30 years
>> ago, thata I have moved below the weight I attained then. So fa I am
>> fairly successful, bu , of couse, it requires daily weighing of me to not
>> let a small gain turn into a large one. Unfortuantley m appetite is
>> back.
>
> Sounds like you have it in hand.
>
> How was your blood sugar when you were off Met for a week?
>
>
>> You, as poster, take quate a strong view adn express it strongly, making
>> i
>> sound like you are the only one who has the right way. We all find
>> different ways to control our diabtese and enjoy sharing ideas jus like
>> recipes, but not being told that "I am the way adn you are stupid if you
>> don't follow me and are damned to diabetic failure if you don't accept my
>> views." You may not be aware of it, but this is how you come off. You
>> have found wht works for YOU adn many of us gave you all kinds of recipes
>> and cookign methods to get you to where you wanted to be. I am glad we
>> were able to help, but remeber, to disgree wit you in a polite way is not
>> crabbiness. I eat quite low car,or what I call moderate carb of 60-100
>> grams a day adn it works for me as it has for more than 30 years, the
>> last
>> 17 or so on Metformin. That is what we mean by YMMV or "your mileeage
>> may
>> vary."
>
> Wendy,
>
> To be quite blunt, no I do not. This is in your own mind.
> Making things up and putting words into my mouth is not
> politely disagreeing with me.

From what I've seen so far, that's pretty much you!