Metformin and vitamin b
Common Questions and Answers about Metformin and vitamin b
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The best one to take is in liquid form, b12 plus the other b vitamins all in one. I got mine at a health food/vitamin place.
My first three pregnancies ended in miscarriage- 4 th one started metformin and finally had a gorgeous little girl( although she was premature probably from all the miscarriages). This time on metformin again , vitamin d( we pcos women tend to have low vitamin d), progesterone, fish oil, folic acid 5 mg and prenatals. Also doing acupuncture once a week, anyone on metformin?
However, several months after achieving a dose of 1250 mg of the metformin ER, I am experiencing profound food sensitivity and allergies that have been further complicated by colitis, vitamin D deficiency, fatigue, and chronic hives. The fatigue seems to persist despite vitamin D supplementation. I've had so much improvement in my condition since taking the metformin that I would be very disappointed if I had to stop it.
ve had low B 12 in the past you meed to be extra vigilant about it in the present and future. The symptoms can be neurological and can be mild or very severe. It can be confused with Alzheimer's, MS, stroke and some other serous stuff.
In a healthy normal person they get B12 from their diet and then this special area of your intestines make something called "intrinsic factor" that makes the B12 work.
2 g of Metformin in close to the maximum dose. Do make sure you take some b vitamin supplement as metformin can decrease your body's absorption of b vitamins.
Recommend you consider and look into low carb/ higher (healthy) fat diet. This approach is actually now being recognized as one of the better ways to deal with diabetes.
Are you able to swim / walk in water or do non-weight bearing exercise, it may help (as well as with function).
"HCV infection significantly lowered vitamin B(6) and folate (p<0.05). Therapy caused further decrease in vitamin B(6) (p<0.05), and also significantly decreased vitamins B(1) and B(2) (p<0.05). This anti-HCV therapy caused more patients to exhibit insufficient iron status.
HCV infection elevated plasma level of malondialdehyde and 8-isoprostane, and therapy further exacerbated lipid oxidation (p<0.05).
ve been reading a lot about Vitamin D and Calcium and how they are helpful regarding fertility and PCOS (I just googled Vitamin D fertility pcos). In fact, my sister's friend is an endocrinologist (not a reproductive one though) and he just went to a conference about PCOS and that's where I found out about it - apparently Vitamin D is low in PCOS patients and very beneficial to fertility. The calcium is generally lower too, and you need calcium to properly process the vitamin D.
Just because everything "appears" to be in the normal range, doesn't mean it's normal for you. You're correct that your FT4 is very low in the range. It's only at 30% of the range, when most of find we feel best with it at least 50% of the range; but what stands out most is that your doctor failed to order the most important test, which is the Free T3 test. Free T3 is the most active thyroid hormone and has been shown to correlate best with symptoms.
I have been wondering about this too. I would like to get a b12 shot but how do you go about doing it? Tomorrow I see my sub dr., could I ask him? Do drs. prescribe a b12 shot and you take it home and do it or do they do it in the office?
One other thing, I take a multivitamin (one a day women's formula) and it has b vitamins in it but I also have a bottle of B super max formula and was wondering if I could take that along with the multivitamin or would that be too much.
"I'm a little puzzled as to why you all settled on the extra B12 what with the high protein diet?? Usually high protein means adequate B12 assuming a normal GI tract"
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Several reasons...
1. Hep C causes depletion of B vitamins.
2. Peg/Riba treatment decreases B vitamins.
3. You need B vitamins to make serotonin. We hoped taking B vitamins would help prevent depression.
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Hello friend, wow ! 1000mg Metformin for non diabetic concerns me. Are you sure you weren't diagnosed diabetic? Pre diabetic? I have never heard diabetic meds prescribed to non diabetics. I am diabetic 1000mg would gran slam my blood sugars low. I take 5mg Glip twice a day and still have low blood sugar 2/3 times per week. My latest A1c lab avg is 72 on meds,.
The trick to losing weight, which worked well for me was low carb diet and no sugar, without exercise I lost 70 lbs,.
Has anyone taken Metformin and then gotten pregnant? I was put on 1000mg last month d/t high insulin levels, my level was a 74 and the Dr. said a 10 was good. I have been ttc for 14 months and she said this could be the problem. She also said if I get PG while on the metformin that I will have to continue it through the pregnancy even if I don't need it b/c going off it could cause a misscarige. Does anyone know anything about this? With my first pregnancy I didn't go to the Dr.
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