Started Metformen about three weeks. It's playing havoc with my stomach. First two weeks contained a lot of quality bathroom time. Now it's a tight stomach, decreased appetite, and fatigue. I'm guessing this is all just normal. When will I feel like a million dollars?
Luckily, I didn't have any side effects when I started on it. It usually takes about 3 weeks for those to subside for the ones who do experience the stomach upsets.
Took me about a month to get over these stomach issues. Try to eat lower fat foods as well. High fat foods will send me right back to the bathroom in short order. Better for us diabetics to stay away from fatty foods anyway. )
I'm curious as to what dosage you all have been on (re: Metformin?) I've just started this week and am only taking 1000 mg a day (one 500mg pill at night and one in the morning) and my "bathroom time" has been significant. I have also had horrible headaches this week. I'm dreading going up another pill next week and then to four pills the following week (they say my full dosage is 2000 mg a day). Once you were at full dosage it still took a month to get used to it?! That would put me at about 7 weeks of feeling terrible... I'm desperate to get my numbers down (pre-meals running in the low 300's) but the side-effects are pretty awful.
Thoughts?
Emerson
I was taking Metformin for 3 years and the bowel problems never subsided. Now I am on Amaryl with no problems, but I do think Metformin works better. If you can tolerate it..........
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