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Metformin and weight loss
I've been taking 500 mg/day of metformin. Just wondering if any of you have taken this, and if so, have you experienced any weight loss?
Come to think of it, my last fasting glucose level was a bit high. The doctor mentioned it off handedly but my anemia was so severe that the blood sugar levels kind of were forgotten about. I just remembered.
I was prescribed Metformin today by my OB/GYN. For almost a year now I have had trouble with my cycle. In Sept of '09 I started a period that didn't end until I had a D&C in January of this year. The biopsy results showed nothing to be alarmed about other than high estrogen. After the D&C I went 6 weeks without a period and then it didn't want to end. After 3 weeks I went back to the doctor and he prescribed progesterone. I took it for 10 days and bled throughout that time. I finally stopped 2 days after stopping the progesterone. During all of this, I developed severe anemia. I had a blood transfusion in January a few days before the D&C. After this last bout of bleeding my iron dropped yet again. The doctor's first thoughts on how to control my issues was to either do a uterine ablation or a hysterectomy. We have two children, ages 7 and 4, but are hoping for one more. Upon learning that we have been trying to conceive for nearly 2 years now the doctor decided that what I really need is to get pregnant and then, after the pregnancy, if my problems return that we can discuss the above two options since after one more, I feel our family will be complete and I won't be concerned with a procedure that causes me to lose my fertility. I turned 36 this year and to be honest, I like my children spaced out a bit so one more baby is all I can handle at my age, though I must say, I don't feel that old. (and I love run-on sentences, can you tell?) Anyway, he gave me Metformin, Clomid, a prenatal vitamin and told me to continue with my iron supplements.
I keep reading on here that Met shouldn't be prescribed unless it is for PCOS or diabetes. I am neither diabetic nor do I have PCOS. However, I did have gestational diabetes with my youngest (possibly my oldest, I was never tested during that pregnancy) and I have exhibited symptoms of PCOS but I have never been diagnosed as having it (weight gain, facial hair, cystic ovaries, etc.) and considering I had pretty regular periods until a year ago the mention of PCOS has had me laughed at for the most part. Anyway, the doctor gave the Met to me specifically to help me 'slim down'. I'm 5'4 and weigh in the 230's. I have gained most of the weight in the last 5 years.
Anyway, at first I was concerned after reading that this med shouldn't be taken unless you are diabetic or have PCOS but I suppose I have a tendency towards both conditions considering the gestational diabetes and the PCOS symptoms. I'm on 500mg 3x a day and hoping for the best. My husband has been dealing with high cholesterol (he inherited it, his parents both have high cholesterol) and we have changed the way we eat in order to help improve his levels. We eat exactly the same and he's lost 16 pounds in 3 months while I've gained a few. We also get about the same amount of exercise so I'm frustrated that he's losing and I'm gaining. I really hope this medicine helps me to control things!
I keep reading on here that Met shouldn't be prescribed unless it is for PCOS or diabetes. I am neither diabetic nor do I have PCOS. However, I did have gestational diabetes with my youngest (possibly my oldest, I was never tested during that pregnancy) and I have exhibited symptoms of PCOS but I have never been diagnosed as having it (weight gain, facial hair, cystic ovaries, etc.) and considering I had pretty regular periods until a year ago the mention of PCOS has had me laughed at for the most part. Anyway, the doctor gave the Met to me specifically to help me 'slim down'. I'm 5'4 and weigh in the 230's. I have gained most of the weight in the last 5 years.
Anyway, at first I was concerned after reading that this med shouldn't be taken unless you are diabetic or have PCOS but I suppose I have a tendency towards both conditions considering the gestational diabetes and the PCOS symptoms. I'm on 500mg 3x a day and hoping for the best. My husband has been dealing with high cholesterol (he inherited it, his parents both have high cholesterol) and we have changed the way we eat in order to help improve his levels. We eat exactly the same and he's lost 16 pounds in 3 months while I've gained a few. We also get about the same amount of exercise so I'm frustrated that he's losing and I'm gaining. I really hope this medicine helps me to control things!
I am a type one diabetic for over fourty years ,I'm 49 now ,I never had a real weight problem until now I have gained close to 80 pounds in the last 6 years and it will not come off,my diet and insulin has been adjusted many time and the weight still keeps creaping on.I find it so hard to do things I used to do even putting shoes on.Has anyone out there tried metformin with type one diabetis? Bev
Further research has turned up several pages explaining how expectant Moms trying to hold down their weight gain during pregnancy (or addictions that reduce appetite as my Mom did) is rather responsible for insulin resistance, pancreas insulin over- production leading to heart disease of all kinds, and cancer. Being new to these forums I don't know if they allow links so I'll avoid being bleeped.
The page I found explains that premature "preemie" babies have a very much increased fallout of all these diseases. Ob-Gyn doctors began telling women not to gain much weight while pregnant, beginning back in the 1970's as I recall. So that's perhaps where America's entire obesity & poor health began.
If this was a Perfect World the doctors would have been correct, but in real-time practice given our American food it was a poor idea. Low consumption of nutrient-depleted food has brought these problems down our chimney.
The page I found explains that premature "preemie" babies have a very much increased fallout of all these diseases. Ob-Gyn doctors began telling women not to gain much weight while pregnant, beginning back in the 1970's as I recall. So that's perhaps where America's entire obesity & poor health began.
If this was a Perfect World the doctors would have been correct, but in real-time practice given our American food it was a poor idea. Low consumption of nutrient-depleted food has brought these problems down our chimney.
Proceed with caution at first. Keep your protein up to prevent muscle loss. Get some Wheat Germ Oil to keep your joints all lubricated. WG Oil contains the nutrition of the wheat kernels. It may very well prevent fibromyalgia, or at least lessen the pain a lot.
Olive Oil contains a special protein -recent research has revealed- that encourages the body to produce its own hyaluronic acid, the miracle supplement that is in so many arthritis products. Coconut Oil strengthens the thyroid gland, most people know that, but it is also a natural anti-microbial that helps prevent dental caries.
All these great oils contain CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) so they encourage muscle growth PLUS being protein. Adding them to our diet helps but too much is dangerous because they can cross-combine in the blood forming a "chemical spiderweb" that is a cure for HEMOPHILIA... except that people without hemophilia can abnormally thicken their blood. So what I do is every couple days take a teaspoon of one, wait a couple days, take a teaspoon of another oil, like that.
I inherited an awesome type of arthritis common to Rileys that had me all crippled up by age 30. That was when I read about Wheat Germ Oil in Prevention magazine. My life without the right thyroid gland was destined to be a very crummy existence but with the nutrients from wheat germ kernels I stopped the arthritis. Come to find out what I had was the missing thyroid hormones, which kept my Body temperature barely above HYPOTHERMIA plus gave me symptoms of many various disease syndromes... One of the medical fallout issues from all that was a light case of Myasthenia Gravis, a muscle-wasting disease. This caused my bones to not have the proper muscle covering, resulting in a temperature drop inside the joints, even my ribs & skull & spine.
Once I got the wheat germ oil in me I was able to bring a lot of this garbage to a better level. The "arthritis" I inherited was a lot more than any simple word implies. I got body slammed at conception with an anvil that kept hitting me all my life, so when I went to doctors asking -BEGGING- for their help and received ATTITUDE stemming from their MALE EGO well, I just didn't need that.
Needless to say those physicians forced me to become my own doctor, not the other way around as they say I did, striking out to "be somebody". I was trying to stay ALIVE.
Creatine Monohydrate has helped alleviate the Myasthenia Gravis, alone or combined in a product called Arginine Power Super Stack. Myasthenia has also affected my eyes, so I have barely read more than a few books in my life through. But for some reason I do much better with the computer monitors having the backlighted text and have made up a lifetime of lost time to "cross the finish line" to help others =>
In the course of my survival I was blessed to come to understand how to harness the energy of Gravity, having now designed multiple shapes that I call "Gravity Wheels" and am nearing several successes. They spin continuously to one day -I hope- provide your home with electricity by spinning a generator. Before the gravity wheels I was blessed to design car engines that use not a lick of fuel >>> instead making its own combination "fuel" like a canned tornado (super cold liquid air injected into a steam-filled cylinder) and many other engines.
But my best discoveries were these having to do with nutrition and disease. One day, perhaps when "the Meek shall inherit the Earth" comes true, my engine systems producing zero pollutants will eventually be everyone's to use, that is my hope. G*d will spread his tent to mankind at that time once again.
Olive Oil contains a special protein -recent research has revealed- that encourages the body to produce its own hyaluronic acid, the miracle supplement that is in so many arthritis products. Coconut Oil strengthens the thyroid gland, most people know that, but it is also a natural anti-microbial that helps prevent dental caries.
All these great oils contain CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) so they encourage muscle growth PLUS being protein. Adding them to our diet helps but too much is dangerous because they can cross-combine in the blood forming a "chemical spiderweb" that is a cure for HEMOPHILIA... except that people without hemophilia can abnormally thicken their blood. So what I do is every couple days take a teaspoon of one, wait a couple days, take a teaspoon of another oil, like that.
I inherited an awesome type of arthritis common to Rileys that had me all crippled up by age 30. That was when I read about Wheat Germ Oil in Prevention magazine. My life without the right thyroid gland was destined to be a very crummy existence but with the nutrients from wheat germ kernels I stopped the arthritis. Come to find out what I had was the missing thyroid hormones, which kept my Body temperature barely above HYPOTHERMIA plus gave me symptoms of many various disease syndromes... One of the medical fallout issues from all that was a light case of Myasthenia Gravis, a muscle-wasting disease. This caused my bones to not have the proper muscle covering, resulting in a temperature drop inside the joints, even my ribs & skull & spine.
Once I got the wheat germ oil in me I was able to bring a lot of this garbage to a better level. The "arthritis" I inherited was a lot more than any simple word implies. I got body slammed at conception with an anvil that kept hitting me all my life, so when I went to doctors asking -BEGGING- for their help and received ATTITUDE stemming from their MALE EGO well, I just didn't need that.
Needless to say those physicians forced me to become my own doctor, not the other way around as they say I did, striking out to "be somebody". I was trying to stay ALIVE.
Creatine Monohydrate has helped alleviate the Myasthenia Gravis, alone or combined in a product called Arginine Power Super Stack. Myasthenia has also affected my eyes, so I have barely read more than a few books in my life through. But for some reason I do much better with the computer monitors having the backlighted text and have made up a lifetime of lost time to "cross the finish line" to help others =>
In the course of my survival I was blessed to come to understand how to harness the energy of Gravity, having now designed multiple shapes that I call "Gravity Wheels" and am nearing several successes. They spin continuously to one day -I hope- provide your home with electricity by spinning a generator. Before the gravity wheels I was blessed to design car engines that use not a lick of fuel >>> instead making its own combination "fuel" like a canned tornado (super cold liquid air injected into a steam-filled cylinder) and many other engines.
But my best discoveries were these having to do with nutrition and disease. One day, perhaps when "the Meek shall inherit the Earth" comes true, my engine systems producing zero pollutants will eventually be everyone's to use, that is my hope. G*d will spread his tent to mankind at that time once again.
When I was 14YO my height shot up to almost 6 feet. My shoulders widened and suddenly the girls were looking at me real hungry like scared the jesus out of me so I started eating more from nervousness. But before I lost my great shape I had a 27 inch waist. I work out and that waist is still there. I can feel it.
I'm 58 now & that waist was a long time ago but the genes kicked in & the thyroid I inherited from the wrong parent poisoned me with wrong chemicals for my body.I took the Unithroid and Levothyroxine for years, but my body was REJECTING OF THEM. After 40+ YEARS of doctors not giving a d*mn about my increasing weight I'm still in the boxing ring swinging... and I have found a new doctor who has given me my shot at that 27 inch waist by giving me Metformin.
What gets me is that I had to come so close to death with high bp and stopped up diabetes fat for a doctor to give me MEDICAL HELP, because they are all on such an EGO TRIP telling other males how defective they are not being MAN ENOUGH to drop some fat weight... all my life I have had an awesome willpower even WITHOUT THYROID ENERGY but the doctors took every opportunity to pistol whip me in a chair insulting me an obvious lack of willpower. My life has been greatly restricted by male doctors getting their rocks off from insulting me shoving a recipe sheet across the desk and in my face.
About 6 months ago I searched & searched out the BEST diet ai products money can buy. I found three, and the only reason they haven't been able to work was because my body wasn't having Metformin. Now that a doctor has stepped out of his ego long enough to diagnose me properly I have those 3 superior weightloss products in my quiver they are #1 Anoretix #2 Leptorexin and #3 72-Hour Slimming Formula.
I also discovered that my body has been host to many bacteria and viruses, not the least of which was the Lyme's disease spirocheates called Borelli, so when I HARD DIET I expect my body to use these critters as a FOOD SOURCE. Something else you should ALL KNOW from my extensive research is that we have elevated levels of C-RP protein being produced in our bellyfat! (Creative-Reactive Protein). When we diet it causes a rise of C-RP that can KILL US an instant heart attack from too much concentrated C-RP in our blood, right? Technically, we are not supposed to diet unless we are in a hospital bed with a nurse checking our blood level of C-RP EVERY TWO HOURS.
That big lump of fat on our waist is acting as a GLAND producing this C-RP and also all the cortisol... but I seem to have mastered the ability to use the C-RP as a FOOD SOURCE MY PROTEIN, and the viruses and bacteria are a very energetic food source also, so I have been able to get past the need for having it checked every two hours in fear of death. FEAR NOT my new friends. We now have the help we needed. Go forward in FAITH that your body will consume every part of you that isn't YOU as you diet... and that's a lot more stuff than simple body fat.
I'm 58 now & that waist was a long time ago but the genes kicked in & the thyroid I inherited from the wrong parent poisoned me with wrong chemicals for my body.I took the Unithroid and Levothyroxine for years, but my body was REJECTING OF THEM. After 40+ YEARS of doctors not giving a d*mn about my increasing weight I'm still in the boxing ring swinging... and I have found a new doctor who has given me my shot at that 27 inch waist by giving me Metformin.
What gets me is that I had to come so close to death with high bp and stopped up diabetes fat for a doctor to give me MEDICAL HELP, because they are all on such an EGO TRIP telling other males how defective they are not being MAN ENOUGH to drop some fat weight... all my life I have had an awesome willpower even WITHOUT THYROID ENERGY but the doctors took every opportunity to pistol whip me in a chair insulting me an obvious lack of willpower. My life has been greatly restricted by male doctors getting their rocks off from insulting me shoving a recipe sheet across the desk and in my face.
About 6 months ago I searched & searched out the BEST diet ai products money can buy. I found three, and the only reason they haven't been able to work was because my body wasn't having Metformin. Now that a doctor has stepped out of his ego long enough to diagnose me properly I have those 3 superior weightloss products in my quiver they are #1 Anoretix #2 Leptorexin and #3 72-Hour Slimming Formula.
I also discovered that my body has been host to many bacteria and viruses, not the least of which was the Lyme's disease spirocheates called Borelli, so when I HARD DIET I expect my body to use these critters as a FOOD SOURCE. Something else you should ALL KNOW from my extensive research is that we have elevated levels of C-RP protein being produced in our bellyfat! (Creative-Reactive Protein). When we diet it causes a rise of C-RP that can KILL US an instant heart attack from too much concentrated C-RP in our blood, right? Technically, we are not supposed to diet unless we are in a hospital bed with a nurse checking our blood level of C-RP EVERY TWO HOURS.
That big lump of fat on our waist is acting as a GLAND producing this C-RP and also all the cortisol... but I seem to have mastered the ability to use the C-RP as a FOOD SOURCE MY PROTEIN, and the viruses and bacteria are a very energetic food source also, so I have been able to get past the need for having it checked every two hours in fear of death. FEAR NOT my new friends. We now have the help we needed. Go forward in FAITH that your body will consume every part of you that isn't YOU as you diet... and that's a lot more stuff than simple body fat.
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