Re: Been on glucophage for one month
From: Lakefever2 (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:51:50 -0700 (PDT)
When I started Glucophage XR, I was teh same way...I
was hungrier versus Metformin which just made me so
deathly ill.
--- anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
> I am on 1500MG of gluphage XR starting this month
> too.
>
> I am seeing a lot of posts saying that met makes you
> lose appetite but I
> guess I am the only one having more apetite than
> before met. I feel
> hungry all the time !!!
>
> Anyone had this with met ?
>
> Thanks
>
> madie
>
> At Wed, 25 Jun 2003, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
> >
> >At Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Heidi wrote:
> >>
> >>I have been using Met for a little over a month
> now. I started the
> >>first two weeks at 500 mg and then moved up until
> very recently to 1000
> >>mg. I tried earlier to go to 1500 mg, but had
> stomach problems and went
> >>back to 1000 mg. I am just now going back up to
> 1500 mg and have a lot
> >>less problems. The main side effect at the lower
> levels has been gas. I
> >>have tried to start eating better and currently
> only exercise two times
> >>a week in my mid east dance class. Yesterday, I
> started to walk as well
> >>and hope I will continue to do this. As for
> improvements, I still
> >>haven't seen any but since it is only one month
> and I am still on a
> >>pretty low dose especially since I am pretty tall
> and heavy. My ratio
> >>of glucose to insulin is also about 2 to 1. I am
> still craving sugar,
> >>but hope this too will subside as I increase the
> dose. I am planning to
> >>go to Egypt for two and a half weeks starting
> Tuesday, so I probably
> >>will not increase the medicine during that time so
> I won't get sick to
> >>my stomach (there is already a risk of that anyway
> in Egypt). I know it
> >>will be a slow road, but so far at least I haven't
> had too many
> >>problems.
> >
> >I am woudering if you had a problem from day one
> and just lived with it
> >and how you could live with it.I am nauseated and
> full of gas.I almost
> >wish i could exlpode!
>
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