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Sorry about the kidney stones. There is that kidney connection again. Can I ask if you had any kidney issues and or stones before taking the med?

Is it possible Putin believes his own propaganda and doesn't know his army targets civilians and steals children? Putin wants to help? Kiss of death more like.

Witkoff?!? That totally unqualified moron who totally misinterpreted what Putin offered in Moscow? He should be sent to Siberia!

Sheryl, I do have a question for you as a medical professional. In the west now given that the off label benefits of metformin are not as you say really proven, do you think doctors there would usually accept a patient that wants to try it anyway for off label reasons and support that medically with screening, or would they usually just get all huffy and say don't do that, that's stupid or even dangerous?

I have also recently heard of berberine. I'll definitely look into it. I think you have failed to get my main message here though. My interest is not only in possibly helping with diabetes and dementia prevention but a number of other possible benefits as well. Also as I said I do intend to get screened for diabetes and prediabetes. I have only one suspicious symptom of prediabetes but nothing conclusive from that. I've been meaning to do that regardless of considering metformin for other reasons. Cheers.

Thank you very much for commenting Pretty much as I assumed though. However, suppose some of these positive possibilities are solidly proven decades from now. Wouldn't help me or many others who MIGHT benefit now. Considering this, I suppose the most important question might be about the downsides even if it doesn't help, which so far to me seem not so much. I understand you're speaking as a medical professional and that's what I would expect from a medical professional. Not knocking that at all. I respect it but at the end of the day as adults, we need to make our own medical decisions for our own lives in the here or now. Especially in places like Thailand if you know what I mean and I think that you do.

Update on this. A few minutes online and I realize I would need a doctor for kidney function monitoring. Too complex otherwise. The "good" news is this could be requested for a number of conditions including just being over age 60 or hypertension so probably very easy to get that done medically even without specific endorsement for off label metformin. Going further, I probably should be doing that already regardless.

He's the kind of guy with the kind of face that for some reason makes people want to slap his face for no reason. Add to that his words and actions so there is a reaon.

Again there are number of reported benefits for off label usage OTHER than possibly preventing dementia. However, it's my understanding that it's not OK to post popular press medical articles that are not direct scientific research studies here so I won't. You're welcome to look for that information yourself. I DID find one and only one serious concern about taking it label or off label. Kidney stuff. Apparently anyone with kidney disease or any kidney abnormality shouldn't take it and all people taking it should have their kidney function monitored. Personally I'm not aware of having kidney disease but it seems to me it would be prudent to be screened for that before taking it and to also periodically monitor kidney function while taking it. That gets into the question of whether to get a doctor involved in that or if there is an easy way to get tested yourself for monitoring. As I said I don't expect doctors here will be endorsing such off label usage. So this is the most negative thing about it that I've found so far.

Trump of course never wrote the Art of the Deal and is in fact a remarkably crappy deal maker and reportedly the dumbest student he ever had according to a prominent professor at Wharton business school. He also of course is massively ignorant about math, numbers, and economics. But credit where credit is due. He's the greatest con man who ever lived.

Epinephrine I presume. I was very young at the time. I actually blacked out with no memory of the ambulance ride until I woke up on a hospital bed good as new.

The benefits are more than that. I'll do research on side effects but it sounds like you're exagerrating. As I said I doubt many Thai docs would prescribe for off label reasons. Look I acknowledged this is a can of worms topic. Self prescribing pharmaceuticals is perhaps bleeding edge.

Total bull. One example. As a kid I almost died of anaphylactic shock from a bee sting. Rushed to the ER and given a shot. Sorted.

That depends on tne specifics. I would have been dead in my 20s without meds.

Why not both and more?

This war is about much more than just the map. But Putin shills always insist on simplifying the complex.

You're being absurd. It's way early to commit to that A number are hinting. A few are obviously going to run especially Newsom. You obviously don't watch much US news.

No equivalence.