I have had some sort of ongoing infection for well over 6 months. About a year and a half ago I lost my partner in life of 8 years and was consumed with a morbid grief that lasted over a year. During that time I did not function or leave the house unless I had to, causing me to gain weight; but, also I was trying to help my youngest son and his wife. Her mother, and my friend, had brain tumors so she came close to death several times, while my son and his wife's baby was due any minute. The baby was born 3 days apart from Jim's memorial service. There were many other extremely stressing things going on at that time also. Jim's ex-wifes family was breaking in while I was gone and doing damage in my home, my daughter-in-law's father had extreme heart blockages, and her grandmother (whom she takes care of) was having complications from COPD, etc. Anyway, when I found out my sugar levels were up I put myself on an extremely low cal. diet; but, my A1c levels were going up. I tried to tell my doctor about the stress and infection, and the surgeries on my nasal passages. He put me on Metformin ER 500MG 24HR Tabs. (I just looked all the information up last night on this med.) When he first put me on it I had all the symptoms of too low blood sugar so I upped my cal. count, adding bread and sweets back into my diet. This corrected that part of the problem. When I had the nasal surgery they had me go off this med. until I was healed. I started feeling much better. I went back on and came down with a really bad case of flu which turned into pneumonia. I barely held down the antibiotics and other meds for that, so I was off all other meds due to that. Once that was clearing up, my body and mental processes started clearing up. I had gone to a Doctor here in town for the pneumonia because I couldn't get to my family doctor. After being able to get back on my normal meds., and being on antibiotics for 2 weeks, I made an appointment for a follow up with my doctor for 4 days later. I had once again started having the problems I do every time I go on the Metformin, only worse. I have been extremely dizzy, extremely tired, bad abdominal discomfort with a badly decreased number of bowel movements, weakness, difficulty breathing, etc., including a rash on my face that lasted a couple days. My doctor ordered an EKG, chest X-Ray, and blood work. Chest X-Ray and EKG came back clear. My blood sugar spiked up to 419 and my white count was still 1700 even though I had been on antibiotics for 2 weeks. He said my abdominal problems were opioid induced. A few years ago we went through the bowel problem for over a year because he was determined that the problem was opioids (I don't take that many and only when necessary) and sent me to a specialist that listened to him instead of me. She kept patting my knee and telling me we would retrain my bowel, that is until it totally shut down due to tissue growth on the outside of the bowel. I have a long history with bowel problems which have nothing to do with meds. When I looked up the side effects, I found that an infection can cause a spike in blood sugar levels when using this drug. There are several different drugs I cannot take and I think this is one of them. Actually, I think every thing I have gone through for the last 5 years have caused my A1c levels to be high. Shouldn't my doctor be looking closer for the source of the infection instead of upping the dose and adding Jardiance to it? This is pretty much the same thing my father went through 4 years ago with the same doctor before he was finally told he had AML by the ER doctor when we had to rush him into the ER. My family has a big history with AML. I don't think I have it but I don't want to putz around with all this and develop it.