What CAN I eat?

donnadonna · 03-19-2008, 10:47 PM

I'm considering buying a TV for the bathroom. It's really bad today.

Clearly, salad was not a good choice. I went out to dinner and opted for salad over red meat.

Other than pizza = bad, I haven't found any identifiable patterns. For those like me who spend lots of time in the bathroom, what have you found as definite "good" and "bad" foods?

tashamarie · 03-20-2008, 07:30 AM

I know how you feel, and I never found any foods that didn't make me sit in the bathroom all night and all day. The best thing I found was to take the pills about 1/2 hour after eating (which when taking with food was about the tiime I would hit the bathroom). Good Luck.

ScrappinNaturalMama · 03-20-2008, 10:15 AM

Maybe it wasn't the salad but the dressing?

I haven't had any s/e yet

(just upped to 1000mg) but I eat a low carb diet. I try to avoid sugar, flour, potatoes, rice, pasta, etc. Even with a little "cheating" (ie I made soda bread for St. Patty's day - a lot of sugar and flour) I haven't had any problems with Metformin yet. Maybe I'm just lucky, I don't know, but I think diet does have something to do with it.....

sheepiegirl · 03-20-2008, 10:32 AM

I think it's just different for each person. I was pretty much fine with whatever I ate (although I don't eat greasy foods). Salads were fine for me. So I think it's trial and error and if you are just starting on the Met, it can do funky things anyways and might not really have anything to do with the foods you are eating in the long run. It could just be the initial adjustment period.

marsjanco · 03-20-2008, 01:26 PM

I am on glucophage extended release (XR) and about to up to 1500 mg. I can honestly say I have not had one signel side effect, except needing to pee urgently as soon as i wake up!
I try and stay away from high fat food, but even when i break down and have once in a while I am still fine....
Have you tried the XR version?

Natalie'smom06 · 03-20-2008, 05:26 PM

Are you taking it with a meal and drinking it with milk? When I drink mine with milk and in the middle of a meal, no s/e, except for the 1st couple days I up the dosage. That is what worked for me when I was on Met XR before when I conceived my DD, and now I'm just starting back on it again. So far at 500mg no s/e, but I'm going to be working my way up to 2000mg very slowly.
Are you on reg or XR? Reg the s/e were relentless but on XR I am good to go!

unctoothlady · 03-21-2008, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by donnadonna

I'm considering buying a TV for the bathroom. It's really bad today.

Clearly, salad was not a good choice. I went out to dinner and opted for salad over red meat.

Other than pizza = bad, I haven't found any identifiable patterns. For those like me who spend lots of time in the bathroom, what have you found as definite "good" and "bad" foods?

I have actually heard that lettuce is really bad on the belly with in combination with met. My MD told me to watch carbs and fat so on my first day of met, I went to chick filet for lunch and got a chicken salad and within an hour I was one with the toilet bowl! I ended up requesting XR and I have no side effects....

ljl7171 · 03-22-2008, 12:20 PM

It's trial and error, what one can eat another cannot. Eventually your body does get used to it but it can take a long time. (I have been on Met for 6 years now, 2000 mg a day). I agree with other posts, when I switched to Fortamet a lot of my side effects went away. I can eat a salad from time to time but I paid the price when I ate them two days in a row.

For the longest time I could only eat shredded wheat for breakfast and tuna salad for lunch. That has changed for me now. I do recommend increasing your fiber content, via veggies and limited fruit and keep a journal of what you can cannot eat. For me my two greatest enmies for the longest time were salads and eggs - now I'm ok with them from time to time.

Good Luck, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Lana

sarah jane parr · 03-23-2008, 12:29 AM

I have always found not eating greasy or fatty foods help me, if i don't, i know i will pay the price for it!!! I would have to move the tv into the bathroom!

constant_vigilance! · 03-23-2008, 02:28 AM

All i can say is - stay AWAY from the eggs! Trust me.

sapphirepl · 03-23-2008, 05:10 AM

yogurt = good. It helps me tolerate Met even though I'm otherwise lactose intolerant and don't do well with milk like some people say is good for them.
a lot of water = good. You're supposed to stay well hydrated on Met anyway.
Once I started taking Met with a high protein meal or snack and a couple glasses of water, and cut down on the sugar and fat, it didn't make me sick anymore.

elentari · 03-23-2008, 12:26 PM

For me, it doesn't matter what I eat. It's all about taking Met with food. If I don't do that, I seem to suffer. Hope you find what works for you soon!!!

xtori · 03-24-2008, 08:07 PM

Personally, I can not stand red meat since I've been on Met. I use to be able to live off of it but now even the thought makes me gag. Actually, the thought of most foods make me a little ill. I don't have too much of an appetite anymore. I love tuna fish and yogurt. Salads were rough for me at first but eventually I got use to it. I love cheese now too. It's funny because I'm extremely lactose intolerant but for whatever reason, cheese settles right with me since I've started met.

LaraSelan · 03-26-2008, 09:28 AM

Oh, lettuce and I have a very bad relationship - I'd forgotten that one. I used to eat very low GI...but since met, I really can't handle it! I had a low fat prawn caesar salad for dinner a few weeks ago, and I had the worst GI se's ever. EVER! I thought I was going to have an accident on the way to work!!

rima17r · 03-26-2008, 09:41 AM

Try Yogurt. When it got really bad for me I had yogurt--I added some sugar on it too. That just soothed my stomach almost INSTANTLY, so I had the YOGURT with some Sugar and I think it made my nausea disappear completely in day or two.