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Re: Dealing with Metformin side effects..
From: Erika (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:23:24 -0500 (CDT)
What kind of foods make it worse? I'm getting ill too, but I'm having
trouble figuring out what foods are the problem... Thanks.
At Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Johnson wrote:
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>METFORMIN HAS HELPED ME SHED QUITE A FEW POUNDS. ALL THOUGH I CAN'T MIX THE
>MEDICATION WITH CERTAIN KINDS OF FOODS BECAUSE IT MAKES ME ILL TO MY
>STOMACH. I HAVE LOST 20-25 LBS.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexis Dina [mailto:anonymous@obgyn.net
>Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 11:25 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS-MEDICATION
>Subject: Re: Dealing with Metformin side effects..
>
>What about metformin for weight loss associated with PCOS? And words out
>there
>regarding this subject? Has the metformin helped anyone shed pounds?
>Thanks!
>
>Anon wrote:
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>> 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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