Metformin Reduction

[donnarob]

Has anyone suffered from stomach upset when their Metformin dose has been reduced? I've been on the reduced dose now for about one month and over the past week, have been suffering from bloating and crampy pain in my stomach. It took me a long time to get used to Metformin when I started it in November and I started on 500mg and increased it to 1000mg the following week.

The symptoms I am getting now, are very similar to that when I started. Makes you wonder what it does to your insides?

Having said that, I have just moved house so it may be simply be elevated stress?

Your opinion would be appreciated.

Donna 🙂

 

[Northerner]

Hi Donna, I have no experience with metformin, but I have had to chop and change with other meds in the past and it can occasionally take my body a little while to get used to the 'new normal', so perhaps it is an element of this - your body was used to tloerating the higher dose and now has to adapt to the lower one. Hope it settles soon for you 🙂

 

[Mark T]

I get a stomach upset if I'm late taking my dose.

But I did read somewhere that Metformin likes to be taken fairly regularly, else it tends to give you upset stomachs. I think that going off it can have a similar transitory effect to going on it or increasing dose.

 

[Paul]

the wife used to suffer from my wind but after about a year to 18 months it slowly decreased and now i very rearly produce in any vast quantitys🙂

 

[donnarob]

Thanks for the replies.

Stomach still unsettled, but think it has something to do with the Metformin. It makes very loud, squeaking and rumbling noises and feels very windy, it is almost like a colicky sort of pain which comes and goes. Very reminiscent of what it felt like when my dose went up from 500mg to 1000mg. The side effects didn't happen straight away, but after a few weeks? Very strange. I have my next Hba1c next month, so will mention to the doctor then.

By the way, this morning's reading was 7.1, a big improvement of late.

Donna