On 3/1/2016 6:46 PM, T wrote:
On 02/29/2016 02:28 PM, Muggles wrote:
I crossed over
about 10 years ago, and now I'm diet controlled. I was taking metformin
for like 8 years,

Hi Maggie,

Metformin is nasty stuff. I can't wait to sigh up for the
class action suit when it finally appears. I took it
for almost a year, until I wised up.

When I refer to Allopathic Drugs as poisons, I am not
being insulting. I am taking the "Spin" off what they
really are and putting some reality on what they actually are.

By definition, Allopatic Drugs are controlled dosages of
poisons that are meant to affect a change in your body.
They can save your life and have saved mine several times.
But your body still knows they are poisons -- controlled dosage
of not -- and reacts towards them. This is why you have
"side effects" and "rebound" effects.

As such, Allopathic Drugs (poisons) should never be taken
on continuing basis. I personally do not consider Allopathic
Drugs (poisons) to be medicine. For "medicine" you have to the
traditional medical community (herbs, etc.).

Metformin is rather nasty in this respect: running down the
hall, hair loss, skin spots, permanent insomnia, lethargy,
depression, memory loss, cognitive decline. (I can't
wait for the class action suit!) The ONLY side effect
my Allopath told me about was the running down the hall.
He with held information about the side effects.

He also with held information about becoming drug free,
which I continuously asked him about. He said that it
was very rare (bull s***) and you had to exercise your
ass off (guess he did not know that vigorous exercise
caused your blood sugar to UP).

I will be eternally ****ed at the Allopathic community
for the scurrilous way they treat T2 (not cure). I had
to figure this stuff out all on my own.

I got the depression thing, manifested as a paranoid
delusions of persecution. When the "dark curtain" lifted,
I had to apologize to a lot of people, my wife especially
(you should have seen her sparkle). I felt like
everyone was picking on me.

And, as you noticed, we both had rebound against it too.
As I took myself off, each time I reduced the dosage, my
blood sugar went down.

Here is a tip a fellow Primal gave me, there is a feedback
mechanism between your intestines and your liver that
tells your liver that there are carbs in your intestines.
If you go zero carb, your liver will kick in and your
blood sugar will rise. So he told me to eat a little very
hard to digest carbs (low glycemic load, radishes, jicama,
etc.) to keep that from happening.

I am glad to hear you are drug free too. Thriving,
not just surviving!

-T

thanks ... The only symptom I can for sure identify with is the
insomnia, but I can't say for sure it's related to metformin or not.


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Maggie