patti plummer

Wow-------my hopes were so high on Gluco XR and my results so far have been nothing.
No AF
Increased depression can barely get out of bed
Increased eating
Feel just awful about me
just ate a whole 1/2 gallon of ice cream

I know the eating does not help but I can not stand how I feel so I eat.

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Patti
PCOS for 21 years I am 35
Hirutism
Hypoglycemia
(Extreme Depression with suicidal ideation) Now lessened after my hysterectomy
Lived a life going to doctors that had no understanding of PCOS--which was mistakably called bi-polar, OCD, depression, hypomanic and more....
1 precious little girl

Hysterectomy with BSO--best decision in my life

We can do all things through Christ...

indiana_troll

For the first few weeks you will feel really rundown. It took around 2-3 months before I got my energy back after starting gluc. xr. Keep taking it and just hang in there. You will soon start feeling the good effects from it.


Patty

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Dixie Lee

I felt the same way when I started, I went to the doc for my first follow up and got scolded because I had only lost 6lbs. That really set me in a tail spin. You will start feeling better after a couple of months on it. Take care.

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TTC my first angel for 2 years now.
Diagnosed in July 2003 taking gluch XR 1500mg

christyz

Honey, you've only been on the Xr a month. I was on it for almost 3 months before I got Af and 13 before my labs really started to drop. Met is a miracle, but it is a slow-working one.

For me, hindsight and a ton of reading have led me to believe that had I changed my diet sooner, met would have worked better. I was eating in such a way that my insulin would spike, counter acting what the met was doing. Things like ice cream, while they help us emotionally for a few mins, do really nasty things for our insulin and make the met have to work that much harder to regulate your hormones.

Check out the diet forum for tips on how to eat without spiking your insulin, work in exercise as much as you can and give the drug the time it needs to help you. Your hormones didn't get bungled in a month, and they won't get fixed in one either.

Hang in there, girl!

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33 yrs, 1 precious hubby, 2 miracle kids, At Goal Wt for 4 yrs, Trygly's down 445 pts, Free Androgen down from 20 to 2, 3 half 'thons ran, 2 mtns hiked, 1 crazy run in the Rockies, 4 forest trail races, profiled in 2 magazines...1 woman determined to kick PCOS butt!


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