question: My husband is in the hospital right with vary swelen feet hanbs legs and stoumick and his back hurts to he has bone cancer from prostreat cancer thay have beentreating him with steroids and he is also a diabetic and his sugar has bee vary high so they have been giving him more and more metforman. And he said the have. Ot given him any for four days and he is now nt hurting in his Ba k and the swelling is starting to go away