Metformin and Type I Diabetes

Hello everyone, I wanted to know if there are any type I diabetics who use Metformin in addition to insulin.

I have started to have a lot of insulin resistance and my endo prescribed it and I wanted to know if anyone takes it and if they have noticed any changes.

Thank you very much and greetings to everyone

How did you notice the resistance, did the glycosylated increase suddenly or have you been increasing the insulin dose little by little?

I don't know if studies are done to find out why resistance occurs.

Get better, Nigiri, metformin will be great for you and maybe it's just a temporary resistance

Hello, Regina, I am in perimenopause and it started suddenly, yes, I have also gained a lot of weight, probably for the same reason.My blood glucose has gone up a little, yes, to 6.7 but it hasn't been all of a sudden, the thing is that for almost the entire month I have a hard time maintaining the controls.

They have also given me a blood pressure pill and they have already told me that we will soon start taking the cholesterol pill.All glory!!

In the end, there have been 35 years of evolution of the disease, I have also had hypothyroidism for 10 years and I became a mother 3 years ago due to IVF and my theory is that this has accelerated everything a little.

All the best!

@nigiri well I'm the same.Weight and insulin resistance, blood pressure is rising, 9, 14, when I have always had 6,13....

In December, I will ask if you recommend the pill... let us know if it works for you.

And thank you that we have a birthday!!!Those who don't comply... we already know.

@Ruthbia if I'm not mistaken we have the same endocrine, tell him.

In my case, it was the family doctor who suggested using medication for insulin resistance, specifically he told me to tell the endo about the possibility of using Ozempic and the endo told me that it was impossible, but that we could try Metformin.At the moment I have to take half in the morning and half at night.Let's see how it goes, I'll let you know if I notice anything.

What a bummer about hormones, I didn't imagine it was like that.I am apart with a lot of anxiety and irregular menses.The truth is that this makes diabetes much more difficult.

@nigiri, well, I haven't seen my period since I started chemo, that's why I have endo every 2 months.But very high estradiol.Before, some months yes and others no.According to the gynecologist, it is because the ovaries are old, and they do not produce eggs every month.

To lose weight, nothing, he laughs, let him endure and the tension today 8, 11, they just measured them for me.

The endocrinologist was very good, she told me to come by in the morning if I had any problem, without an appointment, she would take care of me.It's a sun.

@Ruthbia, the gynecologist told me that what I had was stress, that I should go to the beach for two weeks.It made me want to attack him strongly.

Since I became a mother, I barely enter the forum, much to my regret, and I am very disconnected.How have you been with yours?I hope things are better...

I'm completely menopausal, it's been a year and a half since it went away, so it's official.What I notice are nocturnal hot flashes above all, that they come and go for periods, that I sleep very regularly (I fall asleep well because I fall exhausted but I wake up many times), and the truth is that I don't know what's happening but I can't control it well as always, not even with a low-HC diet.

It could also be resistance, I don't know... so much so that I'm thinking about the bomb because I've never wanted it.

I have an appointment on December 5 with the endocrine specialist, let's see what she tells me.

Note that with metformin as long as you take it, let's see if that resistance improves.

Oh, and my blood pressure has also gone up a little, the maximum only, sometimes at almost 15, the minimum at 6 or 7, I have put myself on half a pill... My total cholesterol is minimally high at 215, but that's fine, I don't take statins.Blood glucose and insulin resistance increase.

@meginer what a bummer, from what I see this is the normal dynamic.

The endo also told me about the pump but for now, I'll pass and I don't want to take the cholesterol pill either.I have 190 for the total, 120 for the bad one and 62 for the good one but it tells me that the bad one has to be below 100. I'm going to try to resist as much as possible.

Cheer up everyone, I'll tell you about it here and see what I notice.

I am worried about the tension, 8-11 and the nurses at the day hospital saying that it is fine, it doesn't add up to me.My parents are hypertensive.But with so much chemo to know.

I still have 11 cycles left in the second phase and at the moment I am asymptomatic, bald but fine.

I got it on the 18th, I had it in October too.Eventually, he will offer me the bomb but I'm not convinced about carrying that around.

With so much corticosteroid I can't get below 200. It gives me an estimated glucose of 7.3 and I started from 5.7 before the treatment.

@Ruthbia damn it, so much strength!I imagine that with the impeccable control that you have maintained, it will always generate frustration but 7 glucose is not that much and as soon as you finish the treatments you will return to your normality with respect to diabetes.

I send you a hug.Let's see if I try to get in here more.

Hello!I read you and I can't help but encourage you to get pumped, for me it has been a tremendous change, my blood glucose dropped from 7'3 to 6'3 in 6 months and now I have it at 6. That's good, but also, the peace of mind it gives you, especially at night, it stops when it sees that you're going down, it makes you more excited when you go up, I couldn't control the dawn effect with the pens.It has given me peace... I understand your doubts about the aesthetic part, you have to carry the cannula apart from the sensor... for me it is much more comfortable.I have also been in the middle of menopause for 2 years.Well, I'll read you to see what you do, thank you very much for your contributions to this forum, you have helped me a lot.

Hello, from what I read we all have insulin resistance with some extra kilos and other things in common.

In my case, I am convinced that having left the gym to study and work, and a few extra kilos, have caused insulin resistance that has made me go from forty units of Novorapid some days and a fixed 34 units of Tresiba.

Taking Metformin has made it more difficult to calculate the dose of Novorapid, as it now depends on everything and not just what you eat.I have realized that if I have more activity that day it is much easier to approach the HYPO zone at the same rapid dose as before, the decreases are more radical with Metformin, especially after taking it for more than two weeks.

I may not have as much insulin resistance anymore, but I'd rather be in the high-average zone or above than in the HYPO zone.

@_Tacker_ said:

Hello, from what I read we all have insulin resistance with some extra kilos and other things in common.

In my case, I am convinced that having left the gym to study and work, and a few extra kilos, have caused insulin resistance that has made me go from forty units of Novorapid some days and a fixed 34 units of Tresiba.

Taking Metformin has made it more difficult to calculate the dose of Novorapid, as it now depends on everything and not just what you eat.I have realized that if I have more activity that day it is much easier to approach the HYPO zone at the same rapid dose as before, the decreases are more radical with Metformin, especially after taking it for more than two weeks.

I may not have as much insulin resistance anymore, but I'd rather be in the high-average zone or above than in the HYPO zone.

As soon as my treatment is over, I go back to the full protein diet;I need to get back to my weight, lose those extra 12kg.I feel bad physically and emotionally.I don't recognize myself, also being hairless doesn't help much, honestly.

@Ruthbia said:

I am worried about the tension, 8-11 and the nurses at the day hospital saying that it is fine, it doesn't add up to me.My parents are hypertensive.But with so much chemo to know.

I still have 11 cycles left in the second phase and at the moment I am asymptomatic, bald but fine.

I got it on the 18th, I had it in October too.Eventually, he will offer me the bomb but I'm not convinced about carrying that around.

With so much corticosteroid I can't get below 200. It gives me an estimated glucose of 7.3 and I started from 5.7 before the treatment.

@Ruthbia said:

I am worried about the tension, 8-11 and the nurses at the day hospital saying that it is fine, it doesn't add up to me.My parents are hypertensive.But with so much chemo to know.

I still have 11 cycles left in the second phase and at the moment I am asymptomatic, bald but fine.

I got it on the 18th, I had it in October too.Eventually, he will offer me the bomb but I'm not convinced about carrying that around.

With so much corticosteroid I can't get below 200. It gives me an estimated glucose of 7.3 and I started from 5.7 before the treatment.

With corticosteroids, it is normal that you are high, the complicated thing is to keep yourself at 7.3 glycate... and the weight, the swelling... normal too.And you are also doing quite well emotionally, although it is clear that you will have your down moments because it is a very hard and long process.

As for the pump, I have always thought like you, that it is there all day, and on top of that with a cable... but I am considering it because even though my control is not bad, it has been many years, many punctures a day, for some time I have not been able to control in any way the phenomenon of dawn or the rises at midnight or sometimes at dawn, doing the same thing.The endocrinologist told me a long time ago that these things were very difficult to control with a pen, and that with a pump it was a piece of cake and that the controls usually improve a lot along with stability and with much less effort.And I talk to people who have it, people who have had a pen for many years and have tried it and are delighted and would not go back to pens.

Another good thing about the pump is that it works only quickly and microboluses are infused according to your needs, depending on the time of day, it is physiological.If it rises it administers a small bolus, if you tend to hiccup you stop the infusion and that is why the hiccups are almost non-existent and if there are, they are mild and you recover very quickly.They are very automatic and can have a sensor so that the system is integrated.Obviously, it is technology and if something doesn't suit you, you have to get hair.

I'll see, but I'm curious, you always have time to go back to the pens if you don't adapt, or even return to the pens sometime.I imagine that the advantages will outweigh the disadvantages when there are so many people so happy, it is not so much because of the control, as well, but because everything is much more physiological.

The future will be in patch pumps, without cable, and increasingly smaller, there are already them in Spain, but they are the least.

In 15 days I have an appointment with the endocrine doctor and let's see what she tells me.

140/90 is not a normal blood pressure under 70 years old, with those numbers you should take medication, with those numbers you are hypertensive

andrespmat said:
@andrespmat said:

140/90 is not a normal blood pressure under 70 years old, with those numbers you should take medication, with those numbers you are hypertensive

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