{"id":108942,"date":"2009-12-28T14:12:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47041-weight-loss-worried-metformin.html"},"modified":"2009-12-28T14:12:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T19:12:36","slug":"weight-loss-worried-metformin-may-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/108942","title":{"rendered":"Weight Loss, worried, Metformin may be"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I have been reading here.  Now its time to write.<\/p>\n<p>I have been diabetic I guess from almost 3 to 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>I have been taking Metformin for a while now.<\/p>\n<p>June 2008, I started feeling pants are loose.  So came back from visit to India, checked up weight it was 173 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>Got worried so talked to doc.  Doc made me take colonoscopy.  I did it pass fine no problems.<\/p>\n<p>Then my obsession with weight began.<\/p>\n<p>08\/2008 173 lbs<\/p>\n<p>03\/2009 169.5 lbs (H1C = 10.5)<br \/>\n(did walking regular 2x1000mg metformin)<\/p>\n<p>06\/2009 164.9 lbs (H1C = 6.5)<br \/>\n(did decent walking, regular 2X1000 mg Metformin)<\/p>\n<p>10\/02\/2009 164.3 lbs (H1C = 6.0)<br \/>\n(did decent walking, regurlar 2X1000 mg Metformin)<\/p>\n<p>12\/28\/2009 161.5 (diff scale, H1C unknown)<br \/>\n(did low walking, almost regular 2x1000mg Metformin)<\/p>\n<p>I am very worried about my weight.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if Metformin is causing it to come down or not ?<\/p>\n<p>I do have the regular Metformin symptomps.  Bad stomach, diahoreal symptomps etc.,<\/p>\n<p>Does Metformin cause sudden weight loss ?<\/p>\n<p>Or gradual weight loss ?<\/p>\n<p>Is this worry about weight mental or should I be worried ?<\/p>\n<p>After weight loss my H1C has reduced, Liver numbers are a lot better. (I had fatty liver)<\/p>\n<p>Recently my Albumin number is 5.2.  Doc did not seem concerned.<\/p>\n<p>To the best I remember 182 lbs was my best weight (3 years ago I guess).<\/p>\n<p>Any help is appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>-S<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, I have been reading here. Now its time to write. I have been diabetic I guess from almost 3 to 4 years. I have been taking Metformin for a while now. June 2008, I started feeling pants are loose. So came back from visit to India, checked up weight it was 173 lbs. Got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}