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Any diabetics out there? I have a question about Metformin.

If you are prescribed Metformin, and you are told that you have the "mild" sort of diabetes that does not require shots, can you still eat whatever you want as long as you take the Metformin?

I am asking because this is what the ex told me. He indulged in huge meals with bread and pasta, and ate enormous ice cream sundaes AFTER he told me he had diabetes. He told me he didn't have to worry about what he ate...that the medication would handle all of it.

I am asking, also, because yesterday I learned that Metformin can also be prescribed for people who have schizophrenia, or psychosis, and it never occurred to me that the ex was lying to me.

This is my fact check.
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TheRascallyOne · 31-35, M
Yes as long as you're incorporating a good workout eating healthy as much as you can and watching your sugars
4meAndyou · F
@TheRascallyOne He definitely wasn't healthy. He had heart surgery to correct three blocked arteries, ate like a pig, and never exercised.
TheRascallyOne · 31-35, M
@4meAndyou 😥
4meAndyou · F
@TheRascallyOne I just thought...how can you be diabetic and eat like that?
TheRascallyOne · 31-35, M
@4meAndyou Well both of my parents are diabetic it runs in the family
4meAndyou · F
@TheRascallyOne I am sorry about that. I am beginning to think that the ex was taking it as a psych med.
TheRascallyOne · 31-35, M
@4meAndyou Lol that won't do nothing for psych
4meAndyou · F
@TheRascallyOne It actually is being used in an off label application for the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis.