{"id":618250,"date":"2010-01-02T14:12:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47177-metformin-and-hives.html"},"modified":"2010-01-02T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:12:19","slug":"metformin-and-hives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/618250","title":{"rendered":"metformin and hives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Recently diagnosed with type 2, doc prescribed 500 metformin twice daily, after a week, I am broken out in hives, and still running 200 2 hours after a meal and fasting at 140 range, he doubled the morning dose and prescribed prednisone.  Told me to call and report next day, of course that was new year&#8217;s eve and he leaves town for 4 days.<\/p>\n<p>So I quit the metformin cold turkey for 2 days, the hives subside, so I take a trial dose of 500 and the itch is back in the hands, so now I wait a couple days before the doc is back.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone else had this problem with metformin?  And will it get better?  Surely there are other drugs&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently diagnosed with type 2, doc prescribed 500 metformin twice daily, after a week, I am broken out in hives, and still running 200 2 hours after a meal and fasting at 140 range, he doubled the morning dose and prescribed prednisone. Told me to call and report next day, of course that was new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":902,"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-618250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2APM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618250","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\/902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}