metformin

I asked my doctor if she could put me on metformin I I believe is what it's called I have got no response yet this is a type 2 diabetes drug etc can anybody give me some advice for input?

[AussieNeil Partner Administrator]

Welcome to our community Robert!

Do you have type 2 diabetes or are you interested in Metformin's purported anti-cancer properties? New evidence for the latter is less promising.

Neil

[Hidden in reply to AussieNeil]

I have CLL

[Newdawn Administrator]

Unless you need Metformin for diabetes Robert, you need to be aware of it’s possible gastric side effects which can be exceedingly unpleasant! In the diabetes community it’s known as ‘metfartin’ for good reason! 😉

Newdawn

[Yalokin in reply to Newdawn]

Metformin has never had a bad effect on my stomach. We tried to have my wife use it, but she almost missed going to work 2-3 times.

We tried all kinds of schemes and found that only the following scheme worked well: cake, metformin, cheesecake, cake, metformin, cheesecake. It turned out that this treatment was quite expensive (not because of the metformin) and that's why we stopped it.

😊

[lankisterguy Volunteer]

HI Robert5683

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My wife's endocrinologist has been suggesting metaformin to my non CLL wife due to her "pre-diabetes" high glucose and a family history of diabetes. My borderline underweight regular exercising wife read the side effects and like Newdawn decided against it. -

As AussieNeil suggests, there is very thin evidence of anti-cancer benefits, and like many of the treatments proposed in social media, the treatment many be far worse than no intervention in CLL Watch & Wait.

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You may want to focus on infection prevention and adapting to being immune compromised- e.g. getting all your vaccinations up to date and avoiding bacterial, viral and fungal infections. They can be more deadly than CLL for us.

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Suggested reading: cllsociety.org/newly-diagno...

healthunlocked.com/cllsuppo...

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Len

[LeoPa in reply to lankisterguy]

Keto fixes pre diabetes quickly.

[Hidden in reply to LeoPa]

Yeah I read the book protein power by Dr eades. And the irony is I quit eating carbs and my triglycerides went down from 365 to 82 but, this is when I started getting sick and my white cell counts are going up etc. So I fixed one problem because they can't get my triglycerides down for years and the doctors didn't understand that cutting carbs out is how I did it.

[LeoPa in reply to Hidden]

You need to replace carbs with fats,not proteins. I haven't read that book. Too many proteins overload the kidneys and get converted into sugar anyways through gluconeogenesis

[Hidden in reply to LeoPa]

No the protein power book only suggest what we what every person needs protein wise and cutting carbs to 25 g or less a day to take care of the insulin resistance and allow our insulin receptors to recover. Since they become known from our Western carb infested diet. Like I said in other posts the irony is I got my triglycerides down from 365 to 82 by cutting carbs, and that's when I started getting sick from the leukemia. Go figure... And yes they talk about how we need fat in our diet big time and that fat basically is benign unless it's consumed in the presence of carbohydrate.

[LeoPa in reply to Hidden]

And unless it's vegetable based polyunsaturated fat. Saturated and monounsaturated are okay.

[Hidden in reply to lankisterguy]

After being diagnosed at a hospital, I then met with my doctor and went down the list of vaccinations. I suggested pneumonia, shingles, and hepatitis b. We did all of the above and I regularly get a flu shot every year anyway. I guess the reality of everything gets me every once in awhile.

[CLL23]

I'm not sure why you want metformin. Are you type 2 diabetic?

One thing I and many others will tell you is that metformin can make you feel very ill.

[Hidden in reply to CLL23]

They've done clinical trials on metformin and it's efficacy for CLL, that's why I was interested in taking it etc.

[CLL23 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks -- I had no idea!

[Annie1920]

Husband had to come off metformin.. It made him doubly incontinent.. Which cleared after stopping it btw

[Rstybr]

I am insulin dependent type2 diabetic . i have been on metformin for about 10 yrs now, i can say it doesnt bother my stomach much , BUT , it has caused weight gain , diarrhea, and yes gas ( ie: burps/farts) as far as helping cancer , hmm I have CLL and also 3 yrs ago they removed a CCRCC off my left kidney , as well as half the kidney ,, this is clear cell renal cell carcinoma , so is it helping and could be worse I dont know but I dont think it really helps.

[LeoPa]

Why do you want metformin?