Metaformin

[jbasser]

Does anyone take this Med? What are the side effects?

John

[callover007]

Does anyone take this Med? What are the side effects?

John

I took for about 30 days. It gave me diarhia(?) and musle cramps. My PCP changed to Glipizide(?). No problems with the new.

[Guest terrysturgis]

John, I take 500mg twice daily and do not seem to have any adverse effects from Metaformin. Add that to all the other meds I take I am lucky the side effects aren't worse than they are.

At my last blood test the A1C was lower. Good news. Take care. Terry Sturgis

[Josephine]

John,

I must be the odd ball. I find the drug very depressing for me. I used to take 500 mg twice a day, but have managed to control by diabetes with only a half tablet each morning.

With the larger dosage my creatin level began to rise also.

This 250 mg. does restrict my food intake, but this was the only way that I could get a handle on it.

My present A1C is 5.3, but 5 years ago it was setting on 13.

Josephine

[Toposurveyor]

John,

When I first started Metformin, it was one tab, 500mg, per day with my largest meal. Recently, it was increased to a second tab at bedtime. We are trying to see if it will help my reduce my higher blood sugar readings in the A.M. My A1C was 6.2 the first of April. I do not notice any side effects of this medicine along with the others that I take daily.

Ed

[Pete53]

Metformin is a good med if you can tolerate it. It works a little diffrent and it is supposed to be taken with a meal.

I had good luck with it when I remember to take it.

Pete

[stillhere]

Pete, ditto on the metformin seems to help me a lot to keep my A1c at 6 and lost a lot of weight and have not put it back on. I also take quite a few others.

Stillhere

Metformin is a good med if you can tolerate it. It works a little diffrent and it is supposed to be taken with a meal.

I had good luck with it when I remember to take it.

Pete

[Chuck75]

What is intersting to me is that my non VA doctors have me on 1500mg a day, 2 500mg AM and one PM. Nothing is said about taking with a meal. The metformin version I take is supplied by the va and is supposedly a version peaking about 4 hours after you take it.

Metformin is a good med if you can tolerate it. It works a little diffrent and it is supposed to be taken with a meal.

I had good luck with it when I remember to take it.

Pete

[Chuck75]

This just goes to show that there are good reasons to have alternative drugs available. An example is that my relationship with iodine analogs is rocky. It works very well if applied in small areas and not frequently. Large area usage causes all kinds of problems. Betadyne can cause really nasty but not serious side effects in my case.

I took for about 30 days. It gave me diarhia(?) and musle cramps. My PCP changed to Glipizide(?). No problems with the new.

[Pete53]

Metformin is the only anti-diabetic drug that has been proven to reduce the cardiovascular complications of diabetes, as shown in a large study of overweight patients with diabetes.[11] Unlike the other most-commonly prescribed oral diabetes drugs, the sulfonylureas, metformin monotherapy will not induce hypoglycemia.[12]

You may be referring to extended release metformin Chuck. I pretty much felt that the VA was to cheap to give me something like that.

[drichva]

I was on Metformin for over 18 months during this time frame my dose went from 500 Mg a day to 1000 Mg 2 times a day. I got severe diarreah from this medication. The problem became worse over time although it did help me with lower glucose readings. I fanally had to stop the metformin when the severe diarreah caused me blood in my stool and severe stomach cramping. I am now on NPS Insulin with no problems.