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Re: Dealing with Metformin side effects..From: Anon (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:28:09 -0600 (CST)
I do not have all the answers to this, but I will tell you what I've learned. [Warning: This gets a bit graphic.] My endo insisted I start gradually on the Met because it makes the body nauseous and diarrhetic. However, he said most people, men and women, seem to adjust to the medication after a couple of weeks. I started out taking one 500 mg per diem and then upped the dosage to two 500 mg per diem after a week. I take the tablets, one iwth lunch and one with dinner. I've been doing this for ten months. Some ladies with PCOS are taking more Met than I am. I do not know how the doctors determine what dosage to prescribe. At first, the nauseousness was strong, but I did not vomit. I found the gas pains were bad at first, too. I had to be close to the bathroom in order to make a run for it at times. Sorry for the graphic details, but if I had been at work, it would have been embarrassing, for sure! The bathroom really needed sprayed when I was done, too. This all seems to be under control in about a week. The second week was so much easier. Now I don't feel the nauseousness or the gas pains. I do, on occasion, have to hurry to the bathroom, but this is usually after a meal with beans or a rich sauce or gravy. I have terrible flatulence if I eat too many carbs, too. Occasionally still, the bathroom needs fumigated when I am done. For me, this has been the worst side-effect of the Metformin. While it can be embarrassing, the Met is expected to help me enough in the long run to warrant putting up with this.
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