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At an appointment last week, my doctor decided to double my metformin, going from 500mg twice a day to 1000mg twice a day. While my after-meal and fasting numbers are usually pretty good, my overall a1c has been "stuck" around 7.1 for almost a year now, and changes in diet didn't seem to be making any change in the numbers (although I have lost about 25 pounds in the last few months...I'll take what ever positives I can get!).
Since starting the increased dosage last Wednesday, let's just say regardless of what goes in, nothing even remotely close to solid comes out. I have one local friend who had a similar reaction to an increase in metformin, and his problem "firmed up" (yuk yuk yuk) in about three weeks.
I don't see diarrhea, or anything similar, listed as an 'official' side effect for metformin. I'm not having any other problem.
I'm curious to know if others besides me and my friend have had this same issue with metformin.
Since starting the increased dosage last Wednesday, let's just say regardless of what goes in, nothing even remotely close to solid comes out. I have one local friend who had a similar reaction to an increase in metformin, and his problem "firmed up" (yuk yuk yuk) in about three weeks.
I don't see diarrhea, or anything similar, listed as an 'official' side effect for metformin. I'm not having any other problem.
I'm curious to know if others besides me and my friend have had this same issue with metformin.