kittykisses

I have been on met 500mg/day since dec6th. After one month , it quit working. the dr refuses to let me up my dose. now I am having horrible cravings for carbs and sugar. i am eating 2 or 3 bowls of cereal with bananas at a sitiing every day and I have NEVER liked cereal before. I am also not having AF (since Nov.7th but was regukar for 2 years before met) and have 2 - HPTs. I also can feel my uterus when i bend over-like it is enlarged or swollen or something. sometimes it hurts to bend over.

Am i wasting my time w/only 500mg per day?
Is the met causing my cravings?
should I even bother w/a low carb diet if the met isn't working to help me?

When I first started taking met, it controled my cravings, it deadened my appetite, i lost weight,my skin looked better, i wasn't all moody and depressed all the time and i had more energy. now i'm just a big fat blah blob again. why won't my dr up it? she said wait another month!!

christyz

Not neccessarily...some ladies can do fine on lower doses if they are consistent with xercise and eating well. But some do need a higher dose, so it's a matter of trial and error and it depends on many factors.

No, your hormones are..you just may not be on a high enough dose. It may be too that the met is moving your hormones around so your period is on the horizon and you're having PMS. It was 11+ weeks before I got my first period on met.

You can actually COUNTER_ACT the drug by not eating right..trust me, I know what I speak of. I was on met for over a year and was not having any success hormonally. I decided to get serious about eating to control my insulin and it was like a new drug. So it isn't even really a fair trial of met unless you are seriously eating well. A high fat/carb diet can counter-act the meds and make it harder to succeed...so don't minimise the effect of diet. I can vouch fof how huge it is.

Hope it helps!

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Christy

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