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Re: What does MET do for infertitlity??
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:08:19 -0500 (CDT)
Do you know what the side affects of met are ??
At Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Char wrote:
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>Glucophage (aka Metformin) is an insulin sensitizer. It helps the body
>absorb it's insulin more efficiently which then controls things like
>insulin resistance and the reactive hypoglycemia associated with it.
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>In many women, pcos is originally caused by insulin resistance.
>Sometimes the insulin resistance is very obvious and other times, such
>as in my own personal case, it is very borderline and subtle and hard to
>detect. It's the excess insulin that has a big effect on the hormones
>and ovaries and other related things. In most cases, but apparently not
>in all pcos cases. So, if you have insulin resistance, and you get it
>under control with met, the symptoms effected such as pcos hopefully go
>away. Some women such as myself need a little extra help in addition to
>met. But that is basically the way it works. Met is not in itself a
>fertility drug. But it controls the cause of the infertility and a
>domino effect occurs.
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>I hope I explained this well to you.
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>At Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Angela wrote:
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>>What really does MET do to make you ovulate again?
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