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Re: Dr. Sam - Metformin and Actos

From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel ?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:34:48 +0100

Hi SusiQ,

You could decrease metformin to 1500. It hardly will increase your androgens profoundly but can give back some sugar. I don't have experience with the combo treatment, but seems rreasonable.

Sam

> Yes, I understand that weight loss is not the goal of metformin - it's
> my goal though. Ha, ha. The low energy is still a problem.
>
> If I lower the dose of metformin to 1500 mg/day, to help with energy,
> would the androgens increase? I do not want the androgen increase, just
> more energy all day.
>
> Would combining Actos with the Metformin help with energy?
>
> Many thanks, SusieQ
>

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