Metformin plus this and my gut's opinion

Started 27 September 2024 · 20 replies · 229 hearts · read 3.6k times

TobiasHamburg, DE · 27 September 2024

1.8 years ago

Metformin plus this and my gut's opinion — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I have had this diagnosis for a long time and none of the general advice quite fits me.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

LinnetKendal, UK

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

NellFrome, UK

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

TullaTralee, IE

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

IvesPenzance, UK

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

BaySt Ives, UK

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

AnnaAthens, GR

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

10me too 9

MarkCoventry, UK

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

OskarWarsaw, PL

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

RafeBordeaux, FR

#10

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

MinaLisbon, PT

#11

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

PetuaKampala, UG

#12

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

12me too 1

HeddaCopenhagen, DK

#13

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

OzzyAdelaide, AU

#14

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

SoniaValencia, ES

#15

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

9me too 5

NoahHull, UK

#16

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

EphraimBrooklyn, NY

#17

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

KezWigan, UK

#18

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

#19

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

NadiaCairo, EG

#20

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.