Just wanted to share my success story with on Met. I am currently on 2000mg. I have always had absent periods (we're talking no period for like a year or more) and have had bouts of unexplained weight gain although now I'm around 118lbs so slim for my height. Also had awful cystic-like acne at age 22 but it did go away for good after taking Tretracycline for about a year.
On my third month of Met, a couple days after my first dose of 2000mg, I ovulated for the first time on my own since I've been a teen. I was charting. I did not get pregnant but still this is huge for me! My old RE did not want me to start the Met, saying it would not help because I did not "appear" to be IR and was normal weight blah blah blah.
I finally got my Family Doctor to listen to me and she had also read where Met helps a lot of PCOS patients whether they appear to be IR or not, Thin or Obese....bottom line is that it DOES help. I also feel that if Met does not seem to be helping you, you've either not given it enough time or you're not on high enough a dosage. If you are truly PCOS...it will eventually help.
I am one of the lucky ones if the fact that I have not had many S/E at all. I did have a horrible experience with greasy food once or twice and did get sick in the stomach one time but that was because I took it on an empty stomach. My advice, start SLOW. Slowly increase, 250mg, 500mg, 750mg, 1000mg so on and so on. Also drink LOTS of water and definitely eat a decent sized meal with it.
Don't give up on it!!!!!
I am now seeing a different RE and I don't know what their recommendation is going to be but our next step with the old RE was IVF......now with the Met who knows, maybe I'll even give Clomid a try again in conjunction with the Met. It just might be my miracle combination. |