Re: Metformin and fasting insulin levels
From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel ?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 4 Jul 2001 18:25:30 +0200
Hi Renee,
Why have you started on metformin in the first place: diabetes, PCOS, weight loss? What is your aim with it: just regulate your cycles, conceive or else? Based on your insulin levels only 500 mg is OK.
For your info
Sam (Ob/Gyn, RE)
> My fasting insulin was 76 pre-metformin. Now, I take 500 mg/day, and it
> dropped to 16 in the first month, 13 in the second. Normal range is 5-35.
>
> I see that some of you are taking 1000 to 1500 mg/day. What has happened to
> your fasting insulin levels? Were you still high after 500 mg? Or, were
> you
> in normal range, and stayed there. I haven't had the weight loss many of
> you
> describe, but I'm also on just 500 mg. I'd be afraid that my insulin would
> drop to too low a level with a higher dose, since 500 mg dropped it 60
> points.
> But, I'm also wondering if I'd see more results, and better control, if I
> were on a higher dose.
>
> My gyn isn't very helpful. He knows very little about PCOS, but he's open to
> me educating him. I'm the type to go in with copies of studies or printed
> web
> sites. (He knows I'm a very educated patient with a health
> background--physical therapist, formerly in acute care, now in wound care).
>
> On a second point, does anyone have a good doc in the Los Angeles area. I'm
> willing to travel a bit. Plus, I have a PPO, but am willing to go out of
> network if I can find someone who knows more than I do.
>
> Thanks,
> Renee
> --
> Renee Cordrey, MSPT, MPH, CWS
> ---
>
> Don't follow in the footsteps of the masters. Seek what they sought.
> --Zen saying
>
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