PCOS Messages for January, 2002: Re: Glucophage XR?

Re: Glucophage XR?

From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:53:50 -0600 (CST)

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In reply to: Minni: "Glucophage XR?"

Glucophage and Glucophage XR are both exactly the same medicine, metformin. It's a medication that helps your body to use its insulin better. the XR is simply put into a time-release capsule so that you can take your dose all at once rather than spread out through the day.

Right now Glucophage is only FDA approved to treat diabetes. It's quite common and useful in treating PCOS as well. So far the companies haven't put forth the enormous amount of energy and money it would take to gain FDA approval for PCOS as well, but that doesn't make it work any less!

Normally when you're prescribed Glucophage a liver function panel is run to make sure your liver is healthy, just because being on this puts a little additional strain on the liver. However, if you don't have any reason to suspect liver problems, I wouldn't be *too* uncomfortable about that. Problems are very very rare.

At Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Minni wrote: >
>My doctor recently put me on Glucophage XR, What is the difference
>between Glucophage and Glucophage XR? Which is better for PCOS? My
>doctor didn't do any tests before putting me on this medication. He was
>kind of hesitant about putting me on it because he said that Glucophage
>is not FDA approved for PCOS. I told him that I was doing research and
>Glucophage had seemed to help many women with PCOS. He decided to put
>me on Glucophage XR. Should I have had any special tests taken before
>getting on this medication?
>
>Thank you

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Sonnet Fitzgerald, PCOS Association, Online Community Liaison. Email: sonnet@pcosupport.org

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