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Feeling a bit down today

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Morning @ Zillah - thank you, really appreciate your reply. I did suffer from depression a long time ago, got thru that - and here to tell the tale. I am going to try this new way of taking the Metformin and see how I go, if not I will ask for the SR. I have asked my GP for a referral for some counselling for my anxieties - I think it might help to talk abount things. My mood is low at the moment - but today I have decided that the only way now is UP!!! XX
 
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Morning@ Wirralass - many thanks X
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Good morning to you too BC. Just a brief note, are you taking the Metfartin with/or immediately after eating food as this is the correct/best way to take it to alleviate some if not all of the unpleasant side effects.
WL
 
Of course, persistent diarrhoea can cause your mood to lower, whatever the cause, due to minor electrolyte imbalances. You may well find that changing the way you take Metformin, or switch to slow release, will lift your mood automatically as the diarrhoea settles. Hope so 🙂
 
Hi Mike - it sure can make you feel down. Today has not been too bad - I have tweeked the dosage as per the Diabetic Nurses - so fingers crossed. Have a good weekend. 😛
 
Hello and welcome. Hope you're feeling better. Yes, you really don't need an upset tum on top of everything else, do you! I find that I'm generally okay with Metformin now, after having diarrhoea over the first few weeks so I hope it all settles down for you too. My GP upped my Astorvastin last month as she felt my LDL cholesterol is still too high and wow! took me right back to the first couple of weeks of Metformin! Now off all statins and pleased to find that life beyond the bathroom still exists. It's really not fair is it? As if the "D" wasn't hard enough to contend with!
 
I was on Metformin and Atorvastatin and life was not worth living - the pains in my joints and muscles, the weird changes in flavours, the itching all over, my hair falling out - all the side effects. The worst one was the memory loss - all my songs, gone. I am having to learn them over again, but there is a bit of a glimmer coming back after a year.
The mad thing is that once I stopped the tablets I could go out, exercise, go swimming - when for weeks I was in the room next to the toilet or in there, or changing the bed, or cleaning the floor. It was an absolute nightmare. I also have normal readings on diet only - so all that misery was for nothing.
 
Hi All, well I have lasted 5 weeks with the nasty diarrhoea. I have emailed my GP and asked her to change me over to the slow release, I am so tired of feeling like this, I just hope that the slow release work, please tell me they will.

BC
 
Billy I was diagnosed two weeks ago, my sugar was 18.5 (330),
My doctor has me on diet only, and in his words "we have to smash this hard with diet"
so I have gone low carb all my readings before and after meals are now between 6.0 and 6.9
I don't know what your readings are so i'm not suggesting you stop taking the metformin
I can give you a list of the low carb meals I have been eating.
you should also talk to a diabetic dietician
I keep a record of every meal and what my blood sugar is 2 hrs later
if a meal results in a good reading I can keep making it
in a few weeks my doctor suggests I will only need to self test in the morning and before bed
Like I said I dont know all your blood workup etc so you need to consult with doctor etc
go low carb
 
Morning David

Thanks for responding. The sugar (on waking) was 8.7 and has been as low as 5.1. I just find the Metformin so debilitating, the toilet at the moment is my best friend. I sent an email to my GP and rang this morning to see if my new prescription was ready and guess what - they never received it. I am now waiting for the pharmacist to call me and apparently he can give me prescription, I am so fed up of feeling like this, if you have the list ready available of the low carb meals, I would be very interested in seeing them.

Many thanks

Billy
 
Hi Billy
Take a look in the food and carbs section of the forum, lots of meal ideas and recipes in there. Good luck.
 
Evening All

I am looking for some advice please. I am now on the slow release Metformin which seems to have calmed down the "tummy", I am taking 2 x 500 (one am, one pm). My GP has said that I should stay on this dosage for a week and then up to 4 x 500 (two am,two pm). Do you think that I should go straight to 2000 or have a week of 1500?

Many thanks

Billy Chick
 
Personally if it were me I would slowly increase the dosage and see how you tolerate the increase. That is the way I have managed certain drugs in the past. Given your past experiences I would give your body time to get used to the increased dosage.
That's just the way I would approach it.
 
I have decided to go with 1,000 for 2 weeks, then increase to 1,500 for 2 weeks and then go for 2,000. So far the slow release has really helped with the tummy issues, but I don't want to tempt fate as I felt so awful for 5 weeks!. I did have a call from the Diabetic nurse a few weeks ago and she was told me to stop taking 2,000, reduce it to 1,000 and then to 1,500 and if that did not help then get the slow release. She couldn't understand why GP's only wait a week to increase to the maximum dosage.

Have a nice evening
 
That sounds like a good plan of action. I had to stop metformin after a while because of the stomach pain so I totally understand how you feel. I'm now on insulin therapy and that has proved far better for me. It certainly is a long and sometimes painful learning curve with this c**p condition. Take care
 
Please, please, can I have some advise - I am so scared. I was on the original Metformin which played havoc with my tummy and on 22 Feb my Dr switched me to Glucophage Slow release, which I took 1000mg for 2 weeks, 1500 for 2 weeks, my tummy has been better but still get some bad diahorrea days, which I have managed to put to one side ( I had presumed that the slow release would overnight stop the diahorrea - this has not been the case) Today I decided to increase it to 2000 mg per day (1,000 AM an 1,000 PM). I took the tablets at 08.45 and I have just had the diahorrea from hell. Should I decrease again and build up again? I am going away on Thursday to Thailand and I am so so scared that I am going to be ill, I want to stick with the Metformin, please tell me it will get better and some advise. I am sorry to have gone on but I am by nature an anxious person. Thank you so so much in advance.
Billychick
 
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