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06-20-2008, 08:46 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Kansas
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| | | Metformin side effects
Anyone know if shortness of breath, not extreme shortness, is a side effect of Metformin? |
06-20-2008, 09:19 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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| | Why do you ask? Metformin Information from Drugs.com Get emergency medical help if you have any of these symptoms of lactic acidosis: weakness, increasing sleepiness, slow heart rate, cold feeling, muscle pain, shortness of breath, stomach pain, feeling light-headed, and fainting.
__________________ ~ Frank Metabolic Syndrome Dx'd March 2003. Pumping since April 2004. VSG 20th October 2008 Obesity and Type 2 are strongly associated. Most people assume that Obesity is the cause and Diabetes the effect. It is equally valid to suggest that the underlying metabolic disorder which leads to the Type 2 causes the Obesity. |
06-20-2008, 10:12 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Kansas
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| | | I don't have any other symptoms, just a little tightness in my upper chest. I'll call to be on the safe side. Thanks for the link. |
06-20-2008, 10:38 AM
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| | | When first diagnosed and my #s were running high, I did notice a little chest discomfort. Then again during shingles when I was in the 180's...same discomfort.
Wouldn't think its your metformin, but you should probably let your doc know about any cardiac type symptom.
__________________ T2, diagnosed 8/31/06.
Byetta 5 mcg
HCTZ 12.5 mg every other day for BP
Enalapril 20 mg 1 daily (ace-inhibitor)
Lower carb dieter (approx. 75 total carbs/day, more on weekends), taking chromium, multivitamin and fish oil tablets Initial A1C 8/06: 9.6
11/06: 6.2.
03/07: 5.3
06/07: 5.4
10/07: 5.3
05/08: 6.2 (right after dealing with shingles and bronchitis)  |
06-20-2008, 10:42 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Kansas
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| | | I called and left her a message. Now, the wait to get a call back. It's Friday and I know the office can be a busy place. I wonder if I'll have to go in... |
06-20-2008, 10:55 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Alabama
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| | | Hope you're feeling better by now, and that this is nothing. I don't remember any shortness of breath on the Met, but I'm glad you called the doc, anyway.
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Glycemic impact diet
exercise
Metformin 2000 mg
Byetta 5 mcg/2x daily
Enalapril 40 mg
A1C, 11-14-08: 5.2!! 
A1C, 8-7-08: 6.3 
A1C, 5-1-08: 5.6!! 
A1C, 2-5-08: 7.4  |
06-20-2008, 10:59 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Kansas
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| | | I got a call back from the Endo's nurse and she asked if there is any pain. I told her no and she said it's not a side effect of the Met. If there was pain, that'd be a different story. She did tell me I could call my PCP if I felt I needed to. I'll see how the day progresses. |
06-20-2008, 12:26 PM
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| | | I didn't have these symptoms. Please keep a watchful eye and if the shortness of breath continues or worsens, please just go to the ER and make sure everything is "ok"!
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2/01/08 - A1c 6.3
4/01/08 - A1c 5.9 
7/25/08 - A1c 5.9
Current Meds - Janumet 50/1000 2x daily
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06-20-2008, 02:02 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Planet Iowa
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| | | I didn't do very well on Metformin and a general heaviness in my chest was just one of the symptoms I suffered from while on it. |
06-20-2008, 02:06 PM
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| | | That's how I feel. Did you dr. ever agree it was a side effect of the drug? |
06-20-2008, 02:31 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Planet Iowa
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| | | He agreed that I shouldn't be taking any medication that made me feel ill. That wasn't the only side effect I was experiencing but I stuck with it for over a month hoping they would subside. I am now on Actos but my blood sugar readings are much worse so I suppose I will be switching to something else. |
06-20-2008, 02:48 PM
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| | | I haven't had the pleasure of taking Metformin "yet" but was almost prescribed it earlier in the year.
My doc was also going to put me on blood pressure med too, Lopressor. I wondering were you put on any sort of BP med? These are known to cause shortness of breath.
Just a thought...
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Now Pre Dx 4.1.2008
A1C 5.6
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06-20-2008, 03:17 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Alabama
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| | | Thank you R2112 for mentioning that BP meds can cause shortness of breath. The doctor just changed my BP meds and I am experience shortness of breath. Nothing hurts, I just get short of breath when I exert myself. I did not notice this before I started the new med. I have to go back next week for her to see if I am doing all right on the new med. If things are not better, I am sure she will change it again.
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06-20-2008, 07:02 PM
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Debbie Sue  Anyone know if shortness of breath, not extreme shortness, is a side effect of Metformin? | If the shortness of breath was cause by running to the bathroom as fast as you possibly can and the bathroom is like 1/2 mile away then yeah. |
06-20-2008, 07:43 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sydney Australia
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| | | I take cartia / duentric an aspirin & just googled its side effects & asthma was included.
Do you take aspirin?
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