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I could NOT take metaformin, I kept throwing up. Its NOT just nausea. I read metaformin reduces stomach acids and secretions, essentially, the stomach dries up. I was also taking prevacid, which also reduces stomach secretions. the combination just shut my stomach down. I felt like something was rotten in my stomach, then a lot of gas, then, nausea.I kept telling my endocrinologist, she just snipped well, take the metaformin with food! How 'bout a Big Mac and large coke?
You'd think doctors would know more WTH they're doing, but, like anything else, you must educate yourself!
Don't forget, high blood sugar can affect your near vision. A nasty side effect. As others said, lay low on the fruit. If you feel shaky, drink a glass of milk. The highs and lows of taking immediate sugar can crash you into feeling worse. The goal is staying within a range.
I could NOT take metaformin, I kept throwing up. Its NOT just nausea. I read metaformin reduces stomach acids and secretions, essentially, the stomach dries up. I was also taking prevacid, which also reduces stomach secretions. the combination just shut my stomach down. I felt like something was rotten in my stomach, then a lot of gas, then, nausea.I kept telling my endocrinologist, she just snipped well, take the metaformin with food! How 'bout a Big Mac and large coke?
You'd think doctors would know more WTH they're doing, but, like anything else, you must educate yourself!
Yes, I did, and got the same reaction, albeit a lesser degree. I still could not tolerate it. After a few days of just metaformin, I got that "something rotten in my stomach" feeling, that would last about a day, then up would come just about everything solid I had eaten for the past few days.
Thanks for the suggestion, but t just didn't work for me.
Don't forget, high blood sugar can affect your near vision. A nasty side effect. As others said, lay low on the fruit. If you feel shaky, drink a glass of milk. The highs and lows of taking immediate sugar can crash you into feeling worse. The goal is staying within a range.
I could NOT take metaformin, I kept throwing up. Its NOT just nausea. I read metaformin reduces stomach acids and secretions, essentially, the stomach dries up. I was also taking prevacid, which also reduces stomach secretions. the combination just shut my stomach down. I felt like something was rotten in my stomach, then a lot of gas, then, nausea.I kept telling my endocrinologist, she just snipped well, take the metaformin with food! How 'bout a Big Mac and large coke?
You'd think doctors would know more WTH they're doing, but, like anything else, you must educate yourself!
This is priceless info to me, since I've been dealing with some sort of oddball and very uncomfortable stomach upset for the past 1.5 yrs, and I've been diabetic for about 3 yrs (it started at the age of 62, and I've been on steroids for about 8 yrs for aggressive arthritis, and some loon doctor actually had me on oral Decadron!
Use of that particular steroid is like using a 12 g shotgun to kill a flea. It's only used in extreme trauma events, organ transplants or in other such cases, and short-term emergency applications, but this country yokel doctor in Indiana said to take 25 mg a week every week. From then on.
About 18 years later, when nothing was fitting my growing and worsening syndromes, the guys at the Mayo said "You've been taking WHAT, for HOW LONG?". My blood glucose has been quite variable, though it doesn't go too high (my highest ever has been about 240, and the lowest was the other night when I woke up in a real cold-sweat feeling, and not at all well, and my BS was 50! [I'd inadvertently taken an additional extra 20 unit dose of Novalog! Ooopppsss!!!]
So this digestive problem started about 2 yrs ago with very nasty "burps", almost fecal in their odor but more like rotting food. It then progresses into my intestines and eventually passes through, so to speak, but not without a lot of distress. No-one as of yet has diagnosed it. But your info about Metformin is very interesting. I've decided, absent any good diagnosis from my doctors, that my stomach has changed, and it's no longer digesting food properly. I seem to be suffering from some lack of proper nutrition as well.
I'll certainly note and mention this one with my doctor and see if he knows about it. Thanks again Marylee!
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