PCOS + Metformin Question?
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I am a diabetic and I have to take Metformin 500 mg. twice a day but I was told to take 1 about 8am and 1 at 8pm as it helps to control the blood sugar day and night. I don't know anything about PCOS but it would seem to me that it would be more beneficial to take 1 twice a day.
If the doctor told you to do it twice a day I would think not otherwise he would of given you a 1000mg pill.
Call your advice nurse to be sure. But I wouldn't until then.
Please, get a second opinion on your medication that your doctors chose to give you---it is a diabetic medication--and you do not have diabetes ----YET. You have polycystic ovarian syndrome and it affects fertility, hormonal changes, weight gain, endocrine problems, mood swings and eventually you may become a diabetic...Metformin is being approved ..how should I say this.on the QT----not proven to help PCOS but, what the hell, they think it might not hurt? Think hard about this--I take metformin- I AM a diabetic--if I took this medicine, or anyother medicine for that matter before I really needed it for my illness, do you think it will work as well? the answer is NO>
Get yourself to the nearest big city hospital that is a teaching facility--get an appointment with an endocrinologist--the bigger hospitals will want your records BEFORE they see you--they will review them with their board of specialists and decide who would be best to see you depending on the severity of your blood tests, etc.and then they will start you on a medical regimen---I know this because my 26 year old daughter finally got the correct diagnosis after 2 years of bullshit from local yocal doctors---she went to the U of Penn in Philadelphia--and yes they conferred...she no longer has severe migraines--she is on a very strong dose birth control and was promised she will be able to conceive--they were embarrassed that a professional would throw her on diabetic medicine since she is actually HYPERGLYCEMIC. ----my analogy is we all taught to believe that docs are gods and they're not---if your body was your car and you needed a new motor or heart transplant, would you take it to Jiffy Lube? People care more about who works on their cars than they do their bodies.....travel to another hospital even if it's 2 hours away--I promise you it will be the best thing you do for yourself.and you may have to wait to get in --maybe 4 months.talk to you gp about the glucophage .if I were you and not a diabetic, I absolutely would not take it.it has not been medically proven to even be listed as a prescription to treat PCOS--they are giving it to you on a whim that it just might work---which is crap....good luck to you..please see someone new and good...
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