[bizi]

good news my pdoc allowed me to try metformin for weight loss.
it is a diabetic medication.
I am not diabetic but this is used off brand., for weight loss. I will start it when I get home from our vacation.WE leave in the morning will be gone 12 days. We have a pet sitter to come in and feed the cats clean out litter boxes and get the mail and water my hubbys plants and feed the out door cats.
we are paying her good money to do all of these things.

bizi

[raspberrytorte]

I hope you have a nice vacation, bizi!

I take metformin. Unfortunately it hasn't helped me lose weight, but mostly maintain. Hope it helps you though!

[Fuzzybear]

Hope you have a lovely vacation Bizi

[bizi]

Our vacation went well got to see my niece and her little girl

and she is just a doll will turn 4 this oct.
I was ill prepared for the cooler temps and had to borrow clothes

from my sister and bought a beautiful new warm and cozy coat.
It was an impulse buy because it is almost white and will get dirty.
oh well I love it. came home and it was in the 90's. starting wed

we will be in the high 90's and 100. I hope they are wrong.
Glad I have a new car and the air works well.
bizi

[Tart Cherry Jam]

Metformin has not helped me lose weight (Ozempic helped with that) but I still take it. I probably will take it for the rest of my life.

Metformin is now a hot commodity because it is considered a longevity medication and people without metabolic trouble are taking it to extend their lives. There are online doctors and pharmacies set up for nothing other than prescribe metformin.

I have looked into research briefly and it appears that the utility for people without metabolic trouble has not been proven but if you are overweight, it definitely helps with longevity. So, take it if you do not develop side effects to it, even if you do not lose weight.

It is also dirt cheap, even without insurance, and is one of the most studied medications out there, having been prescribed for 100 years.

[raspberrytorte]

Happy you had a nice vacation, bizi!

[bizi]

Thanks!
I did not know that they have prescribed metformin for a hundred years!
bjizi

[dmom3005]

I don't know about 100 years but it has definitely been around for a few
years. I do well on it for my diabetes.

Donna

[Tart Cherry Jam]

Is metformin a wonder drug? - Harvard Health

[Victoria'smom]

H is on it for weight loss.

[dmom3005]

As Bizi knows I've been on it for quite a few years now for diabetes and
I haven't lost weight with it till maybe lately. But when I started topimate
for migraines at first I lost about 25 lbs with that. I weighed about 250 then, and as of now I weigh about 190. I have been working to get down in lbs for
a few years. I have lost about 20 lbs in the last 6 months. Its by a kind of
weird way. First I spent 12 days in the hospital with an unknown illness at
Christmas time, and just before I got out I had a colonoscopy that my primary
had been trying to get me to have for about 3 years but the stupid covid had
messed up. So I got that and finally left the hospital with a few answers and got better. Then in May I fell and have been down in the back for about 10 weeks, 8 of them pretty much in my bed and just now getting back on my feet for the last week or two. So I'll take the weight loss the way I can get it.

I am happy with it. I'm working to lose at least 20 more I think.

Donna

[bizi]

oh donna, I am sorry that you were layed up for that long. I guess

I must not have been paying attention.
forgive me.
((((((HUGS))))))
bizi