Headache and Metformin

Hairlesscow · 07-27-2008, 02:24 PM

I don't know if it is coincidence or not, but every since I have upped to 1000mg a day I have had horrible headaches. I have noticed it is worse when I eat sugary stuff. Just checking to see if I am the only one, or if there are others out there that experience these great s/e with Met.

kimekitty · 09-25-2008, 11:38 PM

tonight i go from 500mg to 1000mg for the next 6 days. But I have had a range of headaches. Mostly its been mild but today its been slowly building up where i just want to curl up and sleep through it and hope that when i wake up its gone.

~jamie~ · 09-26-2008, 07:01 AM

I started off with 1000 straight away and so far no headaches.

kimekitty · 09-29-2008, 09:29 AM

since i went from 500mg to 1000mg, my headaches have disappeared. However, I've noticed that my stomach gets easily upset if I have something that is very sugary as well as somethings that I used to like for example sodas with cane sugar taste (which I have as a treat) very different. If I try sodas like RC and Pepsi, they taste don't right horrible since starting with met. I haven't been able to drink any since starting (thank goodness for that). As for headaches, I'm glad they disappeared but Thursday I go down to 750mg for 7 days then up to 1500mg where I'll stay. I hope the headaches don't come back.

MorganRae · 10-27-2008, 04:13 AM

I have a mystery diagnosis. I may not even have PCOS and but I just had a lap and I don't have endo so they are giving me Met to see if I respond to it. My dr. said I would more than likely get sick to my stomach from it. If so to take one just in the morning not 3 all day. So he gave me 90 and told me to take 3 a day ( 500 mg). So does that mean really I would be taking 1500 a day? I know most women take a small dose and then up it. So I took a half of one last night to make sure I wasn't going to be really sick. I felt just fine. So tonight I took a whole one and I thought i'd take just one a day for a week and then up my dose from there and make sure its all good. I got back from dinner (after taking it) I have the worst headache in the world!!! I layed down to rest my eyes and my hand keeps feeling kind of funny. I still have a big headache 6 hours later and feel a little disoriented, or nausea. So I am wondering what other people have done. I of course and a carb freak. Its all I live on. So I thought this would be a good chance to change my diet and turn myself around. Although I know I can't just stop having soda or i'll have caffine headaches. So I am just having half as much as I usually do. Anything anyone suggest I not eat or avoid? Did you have headaches like this as well? I haven't felt to well do to still recoverying from surgery so I am trying to decifer if its from surgery or just the met? Should I just take what I was recommended?