Metformin, then this, and the order they arrived in

Started 18 September 2025 · 12 replies · 109 hearts · read 1.3k times

GavinDundee, UK · 18 September 2025

10 months ago

Metformin, then this, and the order they arrived in — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Some background first, because it matters for the question.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

NualaArmagh, NI

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

WinnieCarlisle, UK

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

BrennaEnniskillen, NI

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

10me too 7

AmmiKarachi, PK

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

OdileMontreal, CA

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

LenaMunich, DE

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

5me too 3

MapleToronto, CA

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

MaryamBirmingham, UK

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

ClemmieNorwich, UK

#10

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

8me too 8

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

#11

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11me too 7

DillyNewport, UK

#12

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.