{"id":613028,"date":"2009-12-22T22:11:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/46917-metformin-side-effects.html"},"modified":"2009-12-22T22:11:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T03:11:08","slug":"metformin-side-effects-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/613028","title":{"rendered":"Metformin side effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;m reposting from Pre-Diabetes forum.  I would appreciate any insights&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reposting from Pre-Diabetes forum. I would appreciate any insights&#8230; 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&#8217;ve never gotten past [&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-613028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zty","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613028","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=613028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}