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Re: Dr Sam: was Re: pcos .... glucophage... and high levels of free testosterone
From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 3 May 2001 05:13:29 +0100 (MET DST)
Hi Jodi,
You are right, if somebody experiences a period a few days after starting metformin, it is just coincidence. You wouldn't be better of giving you some limits within which to expect metformin to work. What should be done: to check how your hormones have changed during metformin, then you can see if it works and woth waiting for.
I have asked people on this board to write generic names of their drugs, because they may have different names in different countries (what is Mircette?). I have also fighted taking combined types of BCPs even for regulating your period and you see, you are spotting. Have you had a bleeding induced before starting BCP?
It is as complicated as that
Sam
> when you say this process takes months... can you give me an average?
>
> i always seem to read of women who went on metformin and had a period a
> few days later and were regular ever since. well, i know it's
> impossible to have a period as a result of the metformin less than 2
> weeks after starting it (right? you'd have to ovulate and then have a
> period, in order to say the met caused it... that takes about 2
> weeks... otherewise i figure its just conincidence...)
>
> so i try not to think about these women. :)
>
> however, i don't seem to be having much luck with met myself. i started
> taking it at the end of january, 1500mg a day. at that point, i have
> been having periods that were regular at 6 weeks apart. but that was
> very unusual for me, and i think that it was just some sort of carryover
> effect after stopping aldactone. i don't know how else to explain it,
> as i was never regular in my life... but i took aldactone for two
> weeks, couldn't stand the constant bleeding it caused, went off, and had
> regular periods for 4 months. then they went irregular again. so, even
> though i was expecting a period to come soon after i started the met...
> it mever did. my last period before met was december 24. i didn't get
> a period again till march 4, and that was the only one i had on met.
>
> i saw my doc again two weeks ago, and she upped my met dose to 2000mg a
> day, and added BCPs and spiro to the mix. i really want to take care of
> the hair issues, which is why i want spiro. i don't have much of a
> problem with acne... some blackheads, and an occasional pimple, but
> nothing major. i just have the gross hair issues. i am terribly
> opposed to the birth control pill (i would rather not have a period and
> know something is wrong than have fake periods and have no idea how my
> body is working) but if i want to take spiro, which makes me bleed, i
> guess i have to take BCPs.
>
> so i have been on BCPs for 2 weeks now, and i am spotting, which is not
> making me happy at all. i am also mentally uncomfortable because,
> well... i just don't like the BCP and having no idea what's going on in
> my body!!! i haven't added spiro to the mix yet and i am afraid to as i
> am already spotting on the BCP. (never had this prob on BCPs before, by
> the way... never been on mircette before, either, though)
>
> i feel like the best thing for me to do would be to go back to just the
> met, 2000 mg a day. i want to see if its working for me. i don't want
> periods induced by BCPs... i want to know how i'm really doing.
>
> but 3 months of met didn't bring on regular periods, not for me at
> least. how long, on average, do you find it usually takes? might three
> more months on met alone do something? and have you really seen met help
> people with the hair problems??? i feel like even if spiro helps, i
> would have to go off it eventually, and i'd hate to find out then that
> nothing was really fixed under the surface after all...
>
> - jodi
>
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