Missed metformin

[Dizzydi]

I got into work an hour ago and realised I have forgot to take my metformin.
Am I right to assume that I have enough in my system from my daily doses to be ok for missing it - I dont really want to drive home and take it 😱

My bs on waking this morn was 6.1 (little higher for me), but my two hr bs was 8.6 (I had half a wholemeal bagel for breakfast).

I was all sixes and sevens this morn, cause hubby is away and my sister stayed over night and made my morning coffee - hubby normally does this and put my drug box onto of my cup ready for when I poor the water.

I was also rubbish at what I should have been having fir breakfast - should have bought a couple of cheat pots of porridge yesterday and I forgot!!

I'm getting really forgetful 😱

 

[Copepod]

Here's a link to a PDF of a sample Patient Information Leaflet for metformin - http://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/medicine/23787/PIL/metformin/ Should include advice about action if you miss a dose. If it doesn't answer your question adequately, then best to phone your pharmacist or NSH Direct 0845 4647.

 

[Dizzydi]

Here's a link to a PDF of a sample Patient Information Leaflet for metformin - http://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/medicine/23787/PIL/metformin/ Should include advice about action if you miss a dose. If it doesn't answer your question adequately, then best to phone your pharmacist or NSH Direct 0845 4647.

Thanks for this copepod - will have a look.

ps I meet Julia on Saturday - the young lady you wrote about and recommended here to. She is lovely

 

[Mark T]

Normally I've got away with it the few times that I have accidentally forgotten it - once this month and once last, both times in the evening.

Although I do find that sometimes it means that I have to run to the gentleman's powder room at some point

 

[Caroline]

I have never had any ill effects from missing the odd metformin. The one offs don't do too much damages, it's just when it becomes a regular thing that it makes a difference.

 

[Dizzydi]

I read the leaflet and I'm not gonna go home to take, I will just take my normal dose at tea time.

However reading the leaflet is interesting - I probably read it when I was first diagnosed and not read it since, but I didnt know this would happen with taking to high a dose - scary

The following effects may happen if you take too much metformin:
unexpected weight loss, feeling very sick or being very sick, very fast
breathing which you cannot stop, stomach pains or feeling cold. You
may have something called lactic acidosis.

 

[Copepod]

Thanks for this copepod - will have a look.

ps I meet Julia on Saturday - the young lady you wrote about and recommended here to. She is lovely

You're welcome Dizzydi - I thought it was very unlikely that you'd have your metformin PIL with you as you usually take it at home. Always best to take official / professional advice, where possible.

Julia has mentioned the Manchester Meet to me - and says she'll try to post more from now on. Most of out communications are about livestock and adventure racing. We met at the park where I look after cattle & sheep, and for a bike ride another time, before she moved north. Not sure she'd consider herself a lady, let alone lovely, though!

 

[Dizzydi]

You're welcome Dizzydi - I thought it was very unlikely that you'd have your metformin PIL with you as you usually take it at home. Always best to take official / professional advice, where possible.

Julia has mentioned the Manchester Meet to me - and says she'll try to post more from now on. Most of out communications are about livestock and adventure racing. We met at the park where I look after cattle & sheep, and for a bike ride another time, before she moved north. Not sure she'd consider herself a lady, let alone lovely, though!

Julia said how you met lol - she was definitely lovely x

 

[Julia]

Julia said how you met lol - she was definitely lovely x

This is an embarrasing thread 😱 but thanks Di. You are lovely too! Hope the missed metformin hasn't caused too much havoc.

Copepod, I am going to be a lady this weekend! My friend who I did the OMM mountain marathon with said if I made her do a two-day mountain marathon with no hairbrush/toiletries etc, she was going to make me wear a dress and go to a ball this weekend! I'll be having a make-over...

 

[alisonz]

My doctor told me once, when I was unwell with no appetite, that I could go up to a week without my Metformin, so I can't see missing one dose would do that much harm.

 

[Copepod]

This is an embarrasing thread 😱 but thanks Di. You are lovely too! Hope the missed metformin hasn't caused too much havoc.

Copepod, I am going to be a lady this weekend! My friend who I did the OMM mountain marathon with said if I made her do a two-day mountain marathon with no hairbrush/toiletries etc, she was going to make me wear a dress and go to a ball this weekend! I'll be having a make-over...

Will be looking for photos! As you know, my approach for avoiding dressing up for Mess Balls was to volunteer to be duty officer so I could stay in trousers, shirt & jersey.