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Re: Yet another question about insulin sensitizers - Dr. Sam

From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel ?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 26 Jun 2001 05:14:43 +0200

Hi Mel,

These are two different things. Insulin sensitizers do not lower blood suger directly, but help function your own insulin better. PCOSers overproduce insulin, therefore, when you start these drugs, your own insulin may cause hypoglycemia. Later your body adjusts insulin production. I can not discuss your subjective feelings however.

Sam

>
> I have now seen my reaction to Metformin and also someone else on this
> list's reaction to Metformin (or it may have been Avandia) explained as
> "hypoglycemia". Yet everything I've read on this list and elsewhere
> says that the reason Metformin and Avandia are so safe is that they
> affect the insulin without lowering blood sugar. If they do not lower
> the blood sugar, then why would reactions to them be explained as
> hypoglycemia? I know exactly what hypoglycemia feels like, and what
> happened to me when I took Metformin was NOT the same thing. I'm just
> confused (again).
>
> --Mel
>

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