Summaries of recent FDA recall and drug warnings updates. This edition also features studies on antibiotic research and possible association between metformin and cancer prevention.
Metformin a wonder drug? good grief. 3 years ago, I had to find a new doc as the old one retired. This woman prescribed it to me. I took only 4 tablets of it and stopped, because of heavy stomach cramps, heavy black diarrhea, unable to eat (even though I had to take it with food), then my arms and legs started to cramp up - thankfully in a lucid moment I looked this up and found, that going on with it could cause cramps in vital organs and death. The article stated, that 45% of patients have slight to moderate side effects of the thing! No need to say I never went back to that doc and found another one, who said I am not diabetic.
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Metformin a wonder drug? good grief. 3 years ago, I had to find a new doc as the old one retired. This woman prescribed it to me. I took only 4 tablets of it and stopped, because of heavy stomach cramps, heavy black diarrhea, unable to eat (even though I had to take it with food), then my arms and legs started to cramp up - thankfully in a lucid moment I looked this up and found, that going on with it could cause cramps in vital organs and death. The article stated, that 45% of patients have slight to moderate side effects of the thing! No need to say I never went back to that doc and found another one, who said I am not diabetic.
How awful! Thank you for sharing that information – many have experienced really bad side effects with metformin.
Anything and everything produced by Big Pharma is now dangerous. Not that they have ever been safe before...