PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for March, 2000: Re: Dealing with Metformin side effects..

Re: Dealing with Metformin side effects..

From: belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:10:31 -0600 (CST)

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At Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Anon wrote: >
>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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hello again :O)   i was doing quite well on 500 mg of glucophage... then i increased after 2 weeks to 1000 mg... it is 2 days later, and i was very ill this a.m., with vomiting and lack of appetite.. here it is late afternoon and i am still not hungry, but know that i have to eat something... sorry that i couldn't bear more positive news,,, i hope that this unpleasant side effect (i do not have to run to the poddy tho) subsides soon!  please take care~ love, belle

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