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Can anyone tell me where I would get advice about metformin side affects
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There will be information on the leaflet. The usual side effects seem to be digestive upsets. There is a slow-release version that’s supposed to be gentler on the stomach.
If you want input from other members about how it affected them, you could always start a new thread to ask 🙂
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Welcome to the forum @Kaz34
There’s also information about Metformin on the NHS website here:
www.nhs.uk
There’s also information about Metformin on the NHS website here:
Side effects of metformin
NHS medicines information on side effects of metformin and what you can do to cope.
www.nhs.uk
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No problem! Feel free to keep asking away with any questions as they crop up, or start a thread to ask for other members' experiences of anything that feels a bit scary or unknown 🙂
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