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Re: Could Glucophage be causing my difficult to diagnose illnesses?!!!!!
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 20:27:07 -0600 (CST)
At Wed, 7 Nov 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>I HAD THE HAIR THING (WAS I 2 STOPPED THE MED THE PROBLEM STOPPED) - I 2 GOT DIZZY - LIGHTHEADED, ETC. I WOULD LOOK INTO AN DIFFER' MED - THAT ONE IS NOT 4 YOU! YOU PROBABLY ARE GETTING LOW BLOOD SUGAR FROM THE MED! THATS WHY U FEEL THE INABILITY TO WALK, ETC...HOPE THAT HELPS U!
W>Desperate! Was on Glucophage, 1000mg., 2x a day for about a year for
>PCOS for a half until a week ago. Was starting to feel like I was going
>to pass out, so doc took me off. Since May of this year, I have had
>unexplainable severe leg pain with spasms, skin ripples in legs with
>muscle jerks, upper abdomen pain, elevated ALT-103 and AST-51 Liver
>tests, severe hair loss (which has lessened dramatically since stopping
>Gluc), increased irregular heartbeat which I am told is Benign Premature
>Depolarizations, bad gas, dizziness, lightheaded, often feel like I have
>no bones in body. I losing my ability to walk and they tell me that
>they think it is Fibromyalgia, but it does not feel like the kind of
>pain you get with Fibromyalgia, because I have had that in my neck and
>back for years. Negative Doplar scan on legs. Positive ANA, for the
>third time, negative for Hepatitis C and negative Lupus panel. I have
>been off work of over 2 months and I am losing my ability to walk and
>support myself. This all seems to have come on within a few weeks of
>each other. No one knows for sure what it is, so I am desperate. Am
>going to Scripps Institute in a couple of weeks out of desperation. One
>doctor has also told me that stomach problem is Leaky Gut Syndrome. But
>I have sneaking suspicion that a lot of this has been caused by the
>Gluco. Read that Liver problems and sometimes Gluc have been known to
>cause leg and abdominal pain. Many forums I have read, women have
>written in complaining of leg pain on Gluc. Does this sound familiar?
>Any advice? Thank you.
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