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I have been taking Met for just over a year for my IR and my mother has been on it for over 10 years to help her control her Diabetes. When you look at our perscription bottles they tell you to take Met with food.

I have read on here that you shouldn't take Met with food so I asked my good friend who is a pharmacist at a Hospital. She told me that you should take Met with food, this is the normal practice for administering the drug.

She said that Met is very hard on your digetive tract and taking it with food helps in that aspect. When she gets a perscription ready at the hospital she sends it with directions for it to be administered with a meal.

This leaves me all puzzled now. When should you take Met?

I have concluded for me that to follow what my body tells me. If I take it 1 hr before to with a meal and I don't get side effects then that is my window for taking the medication otherwise I may pay the consequences.

Thanks,

Lana

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dx PCOS & IR 01/03; 1000 mg Metformin 2x a day; Hiraturism; Weight issues; HBP; H Cholesterol; Anxiety - Buspar 10 mg 2x a day; No AF