Re: to robyn re: I have give up.
From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:50:49 -0500 (CDT)
The side effects of Metformin are many times much worse than the insulin
resistance that it is met to treat. Read what Aly said.
RDB
At Thu, 31 Aug 2000, mj wrote:
>
>At Thu, 31 Aug 2000, aly wrote:
>>
>>You shouldn't be blaming yourself. We trust physician's to give us the
>>correct treatment. After all, that is their job. Please don't beat
>>yourself up over this. Maybe you should try a different doctor if the
>>one you are using isn't working out. I was on metfromin for a while
>>(just got switched to Actos) so I've read up on it and the symptoms you
>>described sound like the side effects for Metafromin. All we(patients)
>>can do is try and be informed as possible. You need to be able to trust
>>your doctor's opinion, but you should also try to be informed enough to
>>know when something won't work for you. Only you know how you feel. If
>>your doctor isn't doing things to help you, maybe you should change
>>doctors, maybe find someone you feel more comfortable talking to.
>>
>Aly,
>My doctor is insisiting i try metformin again just as soon as i feel
>better. she says actos and avadian (sp) wont work for me. Last time i
>lasted 5 weeks on metformin and ended up with major intestinal bleeding.
>I tried four days of metfromin2 weeks ago and still not feeling good
>even though i stopped it. How can I start this imed again? I like this
>new endo i htink she is very very threwough and knows her stuff but i
>can't do this. Am suppose to strat metformin again this monday and i
>don't want to. but i don't want to be a non cooperative patent.
>
>--
>mj
>>At Thu, 31 Aug 2000, mj wrote:
>>>
>>>sorry to hear you were put threw such a terrible ordeal. My problem is
>>>of my own fault i simply can not comunicate. I feel like a bad person
>>>if i don't agree with my doctors treatments. In the last month I have
>>>seen a new endochronologist and accomplised the following. I am now so
>>>sick i can't eat, non stop diarrah, and am dizzy all the time thanks to
>>>Metfromin. My endochronologist felt the medication my psychiatrist had
>>>me on is not good for me so now have been off of that for a month. Now
>>>i am perceptions of everything are all messed up and i can't function. I
>>>doubt my posts are even making sense. My insides don't stop shaking and
>>>i only want to stay in bed. The psychiatrist is on vacation , the
>>>endochronologist is instisting i go back on metformin and its all my
>>>fault because i fail to communicate this is not working.
>>>
>>>--
>>>mj
>>>
>>--
>>Thanks!
>>aly coe
>>
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R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG FOG
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