PCOS Messages for March, 2002: Re: Glucophage side effects-HELP ME PLS!!!!!!!

Re: Glucophage side effects-HELP ME PLS!!!!!!!

From: Belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:41:22 -0600 (CST)

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I may be misreading this but you are taking your Glucophage at 10 pm and 10 am and this is your FIRST dosage? WRONG.

Are you taking Glucophage XR or regular? If you are taking XR, start with one pill for a week and then increase to the second the next week only if you have no GI side effects. If you are taking regular Glucophage, you are taking it all wrong. Feel free to SLAP the person who told you to take it this way! You take ONE pill the first week. ONE! If that bothers you, you cut it in half the first week, if that bothers you, you cut it in fourths. You increase gradually week by week. You take it WITH meals. The regular Glucophage is not time released and does not stay in your system slowly eaking out medicine all day long. You need to take it when your body is about to get a carb rush so the Glucophage will help your body metabolize the carbs correctly. The first week, you take the ONE pill with your largest meal. The next week you take your pill with the next largest meal.

This is not somehting you should even try to put up with. Work up to your theraputic dosage, SLOWLY.

At Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Valerie wrote: >
>OK I take my Glucophage at 10pm and 10am...
>
>Took my first dose at 10pm, I woke up at 1:15am and I had hot, fiery, liquid lava
>[pooh] pouring out for what felt like forever (barely made it to the
>toilet!) and then again at 645am.
>I am in soooooooo much pain... I can barely walk for an hour after each
>episode!!! [SORRY TO BE SO GRAPHIC/DESCRIPTIVE, BUT THIS IS NOT THE
>"slight GI side effects including some diarhea and nausea" THAT THEY
>DESCRIBED IN THE RX PACKET OF INFO!] My anus is on fire for an hour
>after each episode, and I am bathing it in Vaseline... I am scared my
>anus is going to melt right out and POOF be gone! How long does this
>last?!?!? Forget my last Glucophage post about waiting to low carb... I
>am moving to a liquid diet that will keep my carbs down to like 12 per
>day... I have read that carbs contribute to intestinal problems with us
>PCOSufferers... ahhh bye bye carbs my last source of joy! (So long Dr.
>Pepper, been an old reliable friend for years... ta-ta chocolate, your
>periodic visits were enjoyable... HELLO BLAZING ANUS!
>HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
>
>--
>ValerieC
>

-- REALLY hope this helps,

Belle

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