{"id":194967,"date":"2010-01-18T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47739-there-any-supplements-diabetic.html"},"modified":"2010-01-18T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:23:07","slug":"are-there-any-supplements-that-a-diabetic-cant-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/194967","title":{"rendered":"Are there any supplements that a diabetic can&#8217;t take?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I was considering taking in addition to my multi-vitamin a few additional supplements such as CoQ10, magnesium, and possibly a potassium supplement.  Right now I currently am taking 2-500 milligram pills of metformin two times a day and one baby aspirin.  Will these supplements have any negative effects on me if I&#8217;m taking metformin?  <\/p>\n<p>When I mentioned to the endo awhile back that I was thinking about taking some potassium he said that my potassium levels from my bloodwork that was done when diagnosed seemed fine so it wasn&#8217;t needed.  But sometimes I almost get leg cramps and was thinking potassium would help.  Any ideas?  Or should I check with a pharmacist?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was considering taking in addition to my multi-vitamin a few additional supplements such as CoQ10, magnesium, and possibly a potassium supplement. Right now I currently am taking 2-500 milligram pills of metformin two times a day and one baby aspirin. Will these supplements have any negative effects on me if I&#8217;m taking metformin? When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194967","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\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}