PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for July, 2001: Re: Advice needed! Met? avandia? my head hurts!

Re: Advice needed! Met? avandia? my head hurts!

From: Christina (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:30:10 -0500 (CDT)

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HEY, THERE. YOU SOUND REALLY WORKED UP... I'VE JOTTED SOME QUICK RESPONSES "BETWEEN THE LINES"... AND I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN ABOUT "NOT SO COOPERATIVE" RE'S. I'M READY TO TRY A NEW ONE AFTER STRUGGLING WITH THIS ONE FOR TOO-O-O-O LONG!

At Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Margot wrote: >
>Hey ladies, hope everyone is doing well!
>
>Just a couple questions and concerns that I thought y'all could help me
>with, being generally more informed and experienced with the treatment
>of PCOS than I am. Especially since I'll be seeing my (not so
>cooperative) endo next week and wuld like to be armed with tons of
>info...
>
>1) I'm on metformin. It sucks. It is killing my stomach, I'm having
>diarrhea, some abominal cramping, the works, you know? And I've been
>having a lot of trouble taking it as I am now, 500 mg three times a day.
>I've seen a lot of people talk about gluco x (or xr?) that's a time
>release doo-hickey. First of all, what exactly is it called so I can go
>look it up... and secondly, how have y'all done with that as opposed to
>the 3x-a-day option?

SAME AS WHAT YOU HAVE WITH AN "XR" ATTACHED... Glucophage XR I HAVEN'T TRIED IT YET, BUT ITS SUPPOSED TO BE MUCH BETTER. >2) What's up with the whole Avandia thing? I know that the drug controls
>blood glucose levels... but should I bring it up with my endo? He's
>never done any blood sugar tests on me (as far as I have been told, at
>least), so I don't even know if it's indicated. But, also what about
>using Avandia in conjunction with metformin?

AVANDIA IS WHAT'S CALLED AN ORAL GLYCEMIC. CHECK THE ARCHIVES... LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ON A COMBINATION. I TOOK AVANDIA 8 MG AND MET 500 MG ONCE DAILY FOR A YEAR... MY DOC DOES *EVERYTHING* IN COMBINATION. IT WORKED REALLY WELL FOR ME. MY RE TOLD ME THAT "EVERYONE WHO HAS PCOS WILL BE INSULIN RESISTANT IF THEY'RE TESTED". I WAS NEVER TESTED EITHER (ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES I WISH I WAS TESTED, JUST FOR A BASELINE NUMBER... AND SOMETIMES I'D JUST LIKE TO BE SURE), AND AVANDIA WAS STILL PRESCRIBED... SOME INSURANCE COMPANIES HAVE AN ISSUE WITH PAYING "INSULIN RESISTANCE" SINCE THE FORMULARY ONLY LISTS "DIABETES" FOR AVANDIA. LIKE OTHERS I KNOW, MY INSURANCE CO. ASSUMED THAT I'M DIABETIC, I THINK. WHATEVER WORKS. >3) Lactic Acidosis. Scary. And I'm not feeling well. Does anyone out
>there have access to a good definition of the symptoms for LA? Cause I
>haven't found one yet... and I'm getting myself all worried. I may be
>tired and thristy all the time and have some muscle cramps... but I
>don't have kidney or liver problems, so I should be fine, right? Arg!
SORRY, CAN'T HELP YOU ON THIS ONE, BUT I'VE READ THAT IT'S VERY RARE. TRY SEARCHING FOR IT ON THE NET WITH QUOTES AROUND IT "LACTIC ACIDOSIS". GOOD LUCK TO YOU. YOU'LL GET USED TO ALL THE JARGON FASTER THAN YOU THINK! CHRISTINA >Thanks all,
>~Margot

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