Experience with Normoz (myoinositol and chiro-inositol) tablets
Hi,
I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but I'm hoping it might help others avoid the experience I had with this medication. I have lived with PCOD for ALL of my menstrual life. I've tried it all. One of the many things I was prescribed was Normoz tablet which was deemed by my gyneacologist as a supplement that can reduce serum insulin and insulin resistance in the body. By now studies have established elevated insulin resistance in those diagnosed with PCOD. I wanted to try this after 2 decades of trying almost all of EVERYTHING including diabetes medicine directed just for PCOD(Metformin) which wreaked its own havoc. Normoz, with the ingredients chiro-inositol and myoinositol is widely acknowledged in the Indian medical community as a supplement which helps REDUCE insulin resistance and thus (hopefully, wishfully) help with PCOD, and I had a lot of hope in it.
Now coming to my personal experience of taking this medicine. I started with this medicine when my HBA1C levels were around 6 (pre-diabetec) for many years. Upon starting this medicine, it shot up to 7 in 9 months. When I told my doctor and shared that I was worried that this medicine was the cause of that, she said the medicine is in fact supposed to do the opposite and thus if my sugar levels are shooting up with this medicine, it must mean that I need MORE medicine to bring the sugar levels down. So she doubled my dosage. Before this I was taking 2 250mg tablets per day and went on to 4 250mg tablets per day. As you can guess, after 3 months of doubling my dosage, I checked my levels again and they had risen eve higher and now it was considered firmly in the diabetic range. I again saw my doctor and she wanted to double my dose again (quadruple in effect). I showed other doctors and they wanted me to start off on diabetic medicines ASAP, put an implant in to monitor my levels. NOT ONE of the doctors believed my correlation with the sugar levels increasing after I started taking this medicine and increasing even more rapidly after doubling the dose. No studies proves this corelation either. I was alone in this theory. But at the point by which I had taken the medicines for a year I decided to stop this medicine completely. And my HBA1C levels dropped so quickly after a retest, coming back to prediabetic range. After that I had to undergo some detox treatments for other conditions and my sugar levels came back to just about normal.
All this to say, if you are on this medication/supplement or considering to go on it, keep checking your blood sugar levels constantly. It might not have this effect/side-effect on everyone but I am posting this because I did not find anyone talking about this anywhere and wanted to just put this here.