{"id":612704,"date":"2009-12-21T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T03:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/pre-diabetes\/46889-metformin-side-effects.html"},"modified":"2009-12-21T22:13:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T03:13:14","slug":"metformin-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/612704","title":{"rendered":"Metformin-side effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last Thursday I was diagnosed with PCOS insulin resistant\/pre-diabetic.<\/p>\n<p>The Endo put me on Metformin. 500 mg said to start with one and every couple oh days add another and work up to 4 x a day.<\/p>\n<p>I am SO sick.  I;ve never gotten past one a day.  Symptoms are major nausea occasional stomach cramps.  I am very tired occasionally get light headed and feel faint as if my blood sugar is too low.<\/p>\n<p>The Endo said nothing about diet.  The pharmacist encouraged me to try a low glycemic diet.  Said I might be able to avoid meds.<\/p>\n<p>So, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve over done it on restricting carbs or if I am one of those who have a really tough time with met.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?  Any tricks for alleviating nausea?<\/p>\n<p>TIA, Tina<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday I was diagnosed with PCOS insulin resistant\/pre-diabetic. The Endo put me on Metformin. 500 mg said to start with one and every couple oh days add another and work up to 4 x a day. I am SO sick. I;ve never gotten past one a day. Symptoms are major nausea occasional stomach cramps. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}