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Re: Met and weight loss was Re: Just how many PCOSer's are overweight?

From: Dona (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 29 Jun 2002 01:01:10 -0500 (CDT)

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Hi Anon.... you are right... Glucophage IS NOT a weight loss drug... but if you read what the side affects are...weight loss is listed as one..I feel that some of us are blessed with that side affect and some of us are not.I have lost 35 pounds since starting glucophage last summer.It did not happen over night but gradually.I am not on any kind of low carb diet or any diet at all... but I do try to watch out for too many refined sugars and carbs as they tend to make me sick on the glucophage anyhow( the Runs!!).I still love my garlic mashed potatoes! My periods are now every 29 days for the past 6 months and my labs are all WNL... but I would not consider myself cured because I have gone off of meds before to only have all my labs sky rocket back up to where they were before and gain my weight back =( then I have to start all over again (sigh). at my heaviest I was 220 with a 4'11" frame... now I am down to 185.I do believe without Glucophage this would have never happened. Take care,Dona

>At Fri, 28 Jun 2002, anonymous wrote:
>I have NEVER seen a statistic indicating that most women on glucophage
>lose 25-30 pounds. That is a _considerable_ amount of weight. I have
>read that many women on glucophae do not lose weight, and that the
>positive benefits of glucophage are independant of weight loss.
>GLucophage is NOT a weight loss drug. Some women do lose weight while
>on glucophage, but this is due to lower insulin levels in their bodies
>allowing weight loss to occur, usually in conjunction with other
>weight-loss conducing habits. I did not lose weight on glucophage
>without the addition of more exercise to my life. Generally, this has
>included walking somewhere in the area of 5-7 miles a day, sometimes
>running, sometime aerobics.
>

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