metformin

I'm type 2 and just started on Metformin 750mg 1 tablet with 3 meals. I get very bad pains in my belly and explosive diarrhoea every day. I can't change my medication yet as i'm breastfeeding. Is there anything i can do??

Hi I just would like to know people's thoughts on weight loss with medication. 8 years ago I was in metformin for pcos. Now PD and big check up soon die to rising levels and. Revaluation metformin seems to be a drug of the past now. If I have to be medicated I wish to do so with a drug that...

Hi All, It's been about a year since i posted on here so thought I would get back into it. Since my last post (https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/good-old-nhs.54500/#post-552250) I have lost nearly 5 stone, been put on the maximum does of Metformin, been given a new prescription...

Please help, I've been a type 2 for 10 years now and managed it well on Metformin 1000mg twice a day and as well as I could manage by diet too, until Christmas this year, when my levels weren't coming down. Doctors put me on Sitagliptin 100mg in addition to Metformin, I didn't have any issues...

A study in human skin cells and mice shows the widely-used diabetes drug metformin reduces toxic acid levels in Maple Syrup Urine Disease. The discovery offers the possibility of a new treatment for a disorder identified 1 in 180,000 births. Maple Syrup Urine Disease is a rare inherited disorder...

Does anyone have any trusted link for diabetes or metfomin specifically and hiccups? I have found some anecdotal evidence and reports on various discussion pages and forums, but nothing near a scientific or medical comment. Has anyone else here had an increase in hiccups with diabetes or...

I have just been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. I have the monitor to check my levels 4 times a day the first week I cut back on portion size and cut out sugary drinks and only had a rocky bar with my lunch my levels were all over. When I went back to see the consultant I explained what I...

A Mayo Clinic study suggests laboratory findings do not tell the whole story of how the diabetes drug metformin works to limit the level of glucose in the blood. The researchers found that metformin does not limit the action of the hormone glucagon, specifically glucagon-stimulated glucose...

Metformin should remain the first choice for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, even in the face of competition from a host of newer agents, concludes a new review. Nisa M Maruthur, MD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, led the review, published todayin the...

Hi everyone, I'm Robin, but my friends call me Bob. I was diagnosed with T2 in 2013, and manage the condition with weight loss (about 50kg so far, a little more to go), Metformin (down to 500mg) a low GI diet and lots of exercise. I'm a keen parkrunner, occasional marathoner and slave to an...

Dr. Don Harte, noted Marin County chiropractic activist, is calling the latest proposed use of the diabetes drug, metformin, "Nuts!" "In the 2/22/16 issue of TIME magazine, in what they call the 'Longevity Issue,' I have seen THE most outrageous potential claim that Medicine has ever made,"...

New light has been shed on how a common diabetes drug can be used to aid recovery from a heart attack. Heart disease is the leading cause of illness in diabetic patients. It accounts for more than half of all fatalities and the search for enhanced treatments is of high importance. For the...

A diabetes drug that showed promise in previous studies as an anti-cancer treatment failed to show any benefit in a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center-led study that used pancreatic cancer tissue samples to test sensitivity to the drug. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE...

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators may have uncovered a novel mechanism behind the ability of the diabetes drug metformin to inhibit the progression of pancreatic cancer. In their report that has been published in the open access journal PLOS One, the research team describes...

An article published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology reports that a commonly-used drug for the treatment of diabetes, metformin, may have the potential to prevent and treat preeclampsia. Metformin has long been used to treat diabetes in both non-pregnant and pregnant...

In a randomized trial that included overweight and obese adolescents with type 1 diabetes, the addition of metformin to insulin did not improve glycemic control after 6 months, according to a study in the December 1 issue of JAMA. For youth with type 1 diabetes, being overweight or obese...

Medical researchers say that the drug metformin, used for treating type 2 diabetes, could become the world’s first anti-aging drug that enables adults to live well beyond 120 years. According to experts, the drug could extend healthy life and lifespan, and stave off illnesses associated with...