Diabetes & Chronic Issues Support Group
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the typical symptoms are that you feel really extremely bloated (imagine a balloon immediately before takeoff) and have fierce dysentery.
One is supposed to start with a low dosis and gradually rise it (500 mg per week). During that time and for about 3 weeks after I had reached the full dosis I had These problems. Then, from one day to the next, my symptoms stopped but they return again whenever I eat more than 14 European carbohydrate units per day - that's 10.5 US carb-units.
The main reason for these problems is that Metformin forces your stomach to empty slower. This way the food may start fermenting in the stomach or in the small intestine. The second cause is that Metformin also blocks certain liver enzyms that play a part in digestion. Thirdly, the altered conditions in your intestines trigger a change in the intestinal flora: the bacteria that help you digest your food change in number and species. The new intestinal flora is adapted to low carb contents but not as well balanced as the original one was and therefore has problems to adapt quickly when there's a sudden surge in carbs (I still regret that banana-chocolate cake my mom made on Sunday *sigh*) .
@TauCygna: Opium is pretty dangerous. Please be very careful and use only public transport. Combining it with caffeine is somewhat questionable imo since both antagonize each other. So you are basically taking a pain med and an anti-pain-med med simultaneousely.
One is supposed to start with a low dosis and gradually rise it (500 mg per week). During that time and for about 3 weeks after I had reached the full dosis I had These problems. Then, from one day to the next, my symptoms stopped but they return again whenever I eat more than 14 European carbohydrate units per day - that's 10.5 US carb-units.
The main reason for these problems is that Metformin forces your stomach to empty slower. This way the food may start fermenting in the stomach or in the small intestine. The second cause is that Metformin also blocks certain liver enzyms that play a part in digestion. Thirdly, the altered conditions in your intestines trigger a change in the intestinal flora: the bacteria that help you digest your food change in number and species. The new intestinal flora is adapted to low carb contents but not as well balanced as the original one was and therefore has problems to adapt quickly when there's a sudden surge in carbs (I still regret that banana-chocolate cake my mom made on Sunday *sigh*) .
@TauCygna: Opium is pretty dangerous. Please be very careful and use only public transport. Combining it with caffeine is somewhat questionable imo since both antagonize each other. So you are basically taking a pain med and an anti-pain-med med simultaneousely.
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@rhubarbodendron : the new medecine really helped for the pain, but I wouldn't have used it for more than 3 days. That was enough. It had annoying side effects...nothing terrible but it was annoying.
Of course I'd never drive while on opioids ! It's too dangerous. I couldn't drive with a painful eye anyway.
Of course I'd never drive while on opioids ! It's too dangerous. I couldn't drive with a painful eye anyway.
If you're having digestive issues, I would recommend probiotics. I take one tablet once a day (with 10 to 20 billion live cultures), and this has helped me stay regular. I don't have a problem emptying my bowels. In fact, I typically go to the bathroom five times a day (morning, mid-morning, afternoon, late afternoon, before bedtime).
Is your eye doing any better.
Did you tear (rip) or puncture your cornea?
Where does your eye hurt, as in, inside of the eyeball or on the surface area where the eyelid goes over it?
I hope you are feeling better.
It sucks about your husband. I hope he got the fasting glucose test the other person mentioned a while back. The doctors always tell people they have something or another because they are fat.
I was married and my husband died of a heart attack because the asshole doctor was dismissive of his symptoms and told him to go home and take a laxative!
Keep on those bastard doctors because they think they are akin to Jesus they act like assholes! ( most of them)
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@Nakita Akita : what happened to your husband is awful...I'm so sorry...I give you all my sympathy <3
My eye is better. I just hit it with my fingernail, it was painful but not health-threatening.
My eye is better. I just hit it with my fingernail, it was painful but not health-threatening.
thanks for the tip, Gryffindorian, but the problems caused by Metformin are exactly the opposite. The herbal drops my pharmacist recommended work miracles though I do have a suspicion that my innards behave so promptly because they are scared of a second dosis - the stuff tastes simply horrible.
TauCygna, I'm glad you're getting better so quickly. And that you are so careful. Some people are terribly careless in that respect.
How is your hubby? Are there any new test results?
Nakita Akita, it's really terrible what happened to your husband. Nowadays doctors take so little time to perform a proper examination.
TauCygna, I'm glad you're getting better so quickly. And that you are so careful. Some people are terribly careless in that respect.
How is your hubby? Are there any new test results?
Nakita Akita, it's really terrible what happened to your husband. Nowadays doctors take so little time to perform a proper examination.
I read it in English and it was very easy to read to be honest: German Diabetes Management Programs Improve Quality Of Care And Curb Costs
According to new research, there are five "sub-cats" of diabetes which three of those would be classified under type 2.
It was very unfortunate what happened to your husband, but, I have met literally dozens of doctors, both regarding my own condition and family members with a whole myriad of conditions, plus I need to use more than one hand to count the number of doctors in my wifes family and, yes, some can be gruff, but I would not consider any of them to be arseholes.
It takes a huge amount of work to qualify as a doctor, specialise in something and keep upto date in their chosen field.
It is unfortunate that there aren't enough doctors to meet the demands in the increase in global population.
And it takes a huge amount of stupidity, selfishness and obnoxiousness to decide that someone's pain is not relevant and let the person die, when they could actually do something to prevent it.
Not all doctors are attentive to their patients, some are arseholes indeed.
Three characteristics that pretty much every single person on this planet will demonstrate in their life. Doctors are no different.
I totally agree with you, but the problem is that an obnoxious, selfish and stupid doctor can kill someone else. There is no such a danger with an obnoxious TV retailer or a selfish bookshop cashier.
Doctors are humans and have flaws just like any human, but it's their responsability and professional duty to try fixing their own flaws so they can be better doctors for their patients. In my humble opinion, someone who's too obnoxious to consider that they may be doing a wrong diagnosis and that they may need a second view on their patient's situation shouldn't work in health care. Risking someone else's life because of their own pride is unnacceptable.
Well, the doctor looked at my short, fat, Mexican husband and dismissed him out of hand with zero tests run and told him that he basically had eaten too much of the wrong food and to take Peptobismol and a laxative.
The doctor, I think did it because my husband was 1. Fat
2. Mexican.
In addition, the nurse that had been there, assigned to my husband had been "lost" in the country and found wandering the countryside sometime around when she was working in the Emergency room.
Go figure what was going on with her.
Anyway the doctor was condescending and dismissive towards my husband.
He went to the emergency room With Heart Attack symptoms and was told by a Doctor that he had indigestion!
Not tests. No blood tests, no EKG, nothing.
"Go take Peptobismol and a laxative".
It was bull shit!
@Nakita Akita : wow...obnoxious, stupid and racist...What a good doctor really !! I am so sorry...Did you or/and your husband's family sue that bastard ?
That could be said for a number of professions, not just a Doctor.
And there are often mechanisms in place to deal with such scenarios. Your experience is clearly different, but I have literally never had a Doctor dealing with my own health needs, nor any who have treated my family members like that.
Like many things, I guess Doctors are on a bell curve, many millions world wide sit in the middle, practicing medicine, doing no-harm, following the Hippocratic Oath and doing the best job they can in often difficult and stressful situations, while others do not.
Thanks for the context and expanding on what you originally said. I can only imagine the traumatic experience that was for you and how horrific it was for him. I hope he is no longer practicing for such gross negligence.
I did. But the lawyers took all of the money.
Yea, I don't like lawyers all that much either.
Even if you didn't get any financial compensation, it was worth the procedure as long as this pitiful bastard was prosecuted. He never should have become a doctor in the first place.
That kind of tragedy wouldn't happen if doctors considered that patients are capable of intelligence, instead of thinking we're stupid, acultured oyster-like organisms with no ability to discriminate between blood and tomato juice - that last example is something my mother experienced in real life when facing health care providers from the French 911...
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it seems to be a global phenomenon - it took me years to get my diabetes diagnosed and my GPs were a group-practice of 4 doctors of whom 3 specialize in diabetes while the fourth is a type 1 diabetic himself. Neither bothered to even check my HbA1c, let alone do a glucose tolerance test. Finally, I decided I had to do something about it and refered myself to an endocrinologist who then did the proper tests.
Nowadays, as a patient you don't only need patience but medical knowledge and the ability to assert yourself forcefully.
(based on the WHO-definitions)
Nowadays, as a patient you don't only need patience but medical knowledge and the ability to assert yourself forcefully.
In Germany, we currently discern 4 main types with 16 subtypes:
(based on the WHO-definitions)
- type 1-Diabetes mellitus: destroyed beta cells in the Langerhans-islets of the pankreas cause an absolute lack of insulin
- type 1a: auto-immune disease
- type 1b: idiopatic ( that means: with unknown cause)
- type-2-Diabetes mellitus: different combinations of insulin resistance (that's when you produce enough insulin, but your cells can't take in the sugar molecules the insulin set free from your food), hyperinsulinism (that's when your body produces too much insulin), relative lack of insulin, faulty secretion of the pancreas
- type 2a: without obesity
- type 2b: with obesity
- type 2a: without obesity
- other specific types
- A: genetc defect of the beta cells (resulting in a flawed insuline secretion) (e.g.all types of MODY- maturity onset diabetes of the young)
- B: rare genetic flaws in the effectiveness of insulin
- C: pancreas illness or destruction (eg. pancreatitis, cystic fibrosis, hemochromatosis)
- D: hormonal dysfunctions (endokrinopathies) (e.g. Cushing-syndrome, acromegaly, pheochromocytoma)
- E: diabetes caused by medication or chemicals (drugs, poisons, glukokortikoids, Neuroleptica, alpha-Interferon, pentamidin)
- F: infections
- G: unusual forms of immune system-based diabetes
- H: other genetic syndromes associated with diabetes
- A: genetc defect of the beta cells (resulting in a flawed insuline secretion) (e.g.all types of MODY- maturity onset diabetes of the young)
- diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes)
- first time manifestation of type 1 diabetes
- first time manifestation of a type 2 diabetes
- first time manifestation of other specific forms of diabetes
- previousely manifest but not diagnosed type 2 diabetes (that's the most likely one during the first 3 months of pregnancy)
Exactly.
And one of the medical fields in which it became absolutely unbearable is obstetrics, at least in France. It became almost impossible to give birth naturally, or at least without artificial ocytoxin injections and anesthesia, even if you want to...Birth has become one big medical package you buy from the hospital, with mandatory procedures that are used only to make sure the several births going on at the same time are synchronized enough so it doesn't bother the midwives' plannings...No matter if those useless procedures transform normal births into dangerous, dystocic births. The only important thing is that it provides midwives enough time to get their "cigarette break" at the appropriate time...
In that case I'd recommend Germany: over here, you can give birth at home if you like. However, if there is a medical prob they'll bring you to hospital and let lose the whole chemical and mechanical arsenal on you. Midwifes in Germany must be insured against all sorts of complications. That's good for the patient but expensive for the midwives and therefore many of them quit their job. Atm we are desperately searching for new ones all over the country.
But the few ones that are left have generally a good reputation and give you a chance to deliver your baby the way you and nature intend.
But the few ones that are left have generally a good reputation and give you a chance to deliver your baby the way you and nature intend.
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