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Re: Alcohol and Metformin
From: click (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:34:08 -0500 (CDT)
Wierd, I'm on glucophage XR (1000mg a day) and I don't really drink
beers or non-hard alcohol, but I don't feel the effects of alcohol AS
WELL as I did without hte glucophage...I had 8 shots of tequila a few
nights ago and I was dandy fine. I mean, I was silly, but I could walk
just fine.
..Guess everyones different..
At Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Liz wrote:
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>I couldn't help but reply to this message. As a college student, I
>usually went out drinking almost everyweekend. I was diagnosed with
>PCOS in my very last year of college. I started taking metformin and
>didn't think twice about it. Suddenly, though, I started having really
>bad reactions with alcohol. I knew exactly how much alcohol I could
>handle previous to starting medication, but with the metformin, I really
>started feeling the effects of alcohol after one or two drinks.
>My reactions since then with alcohol were bad, my friends told me I was
>acting really strange and once I blacked out...that particular time, I
>had 5 drinks in the evening. That really scared me. I also would feel
>sick very early in the evening and was likely to wind up throwing up. My
>friends noticed the difference and started calling the metformin my
>"crazy pills".
>Now, I do like to drink, so I started experimenting a bit on my own to
>see if I could get some compromise. I definitely had to really cut down
>on drinking. But, after some trial and error, I found that my reactions
>to alcohol were OK if I hadn't taken the metformin for at least 24
>hours. It does require prior planning if you are going to drink. If my
>friends spontaneously go out after work, I volunteer to be DD. I don't
>like to get into the whole PCOS explanation with them, but it seems that
>a lot of people are on medicine that you can't mix with alcohol so I
>just mention that i'm on some medicine and no one bugs me to drink the
>rest of the evening.
> Hope that helps!
>Liz
>
>At Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Cathy wrote:
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>>At Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Jodi wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I was wondering if any of you knew how long you have to be off of
>>>Metformin in order to be able to safely drink alcoholic beverages?
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>--
>>>Jodi
>>>
>>I was a silly girl the other day and drank some alcohol whilst taking 3
>>metformin. I was so sick in that i had wind and bad cramps for thr rest
>>fot he night. Dont do it!
>>
>>--
>>Cathy
>>
>>--
>>LOVE Cathy
>>
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