Metformin and PCOS

emilymarie2011

Hey ladies and gents!
I have PCOS and am trying to conceive. To make this process a little easier, has anyone else taken metformin while trying to conceive? I've been on it for a week and got a period today! (Excited for a period is rare) but In this case trying to conceive having a period is good thing! I'm ovulating! What is everyones experience from metformin?

Cythe

Pooping. That's what I know about Metformin.

AnonymousNurse

emilymarie2011 said:

Hey ladies and gents! I have PCOS and am trying to conceive. To make this process a little easier, has anyone else taken metformin while trying to conceive? I've been on it for a week and got a period today! (Excited for a period is rare) but In this case trying to conceive having a period is good thing! I'm ovulating! What is everyones experience from metformin?

I spotted for about a week after I started metformin.  I also shat for about a week after starting metformin. It was lovely.

The bleeding is more likely due from a hormonal shift than actual ovulation.  It is my understanding that it will take a couple of cycles for it to help regulate periods.  Even if that is not 100% accurate, I don't see how it is possible for it to have made you ovulate and given you a period in only one week of taking it. The timing does not add up.  

FWIW, all of the studies I've read on how metformin decreases miscarriage rates, improves IVF success rates, etc use women who have been on metformin for at least 6 weeks.   

baloneydisc

My RE said it takes around 6 months for Metformin to work. It did nothing for me (prescribed by my OB) and my RE took me off of it because I'm not insulin resistant.

dazdareis

I have PCOS but I am not taking Metformin for regulating my cycles, I'm taking it to regulate blood sugar after multiple losses, so I can't give any advice on it. I can say that it does take anywhere from 2-6 months for it to really start being effective though.

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yepitsme215

I took metformin for 6 months, and it didn't get my period going but I did lose some weight. Like others have said it takes a while to get going in your body. 

CaveWmnInBrit

I had to stop metformin because I have a job where running to the toilet isn't permitted.... (something about leaving 30 teenage girls alone in a science laboratory)...

I also did lose weight but its because I wasn't actually digesting anything before it came back out

renbee

I take metformin and it's worked well for me. I went from cycles that were 50-75 days long, or ones that were anovulatory that I had to end with provera, to a fairly normal 28-32 day ovulatory cycle.

Unfortunately, taking metformin during my first trimester did not prevent me from having a miscarriage. 

CaveWmnInBrit

Additional Question: post my refusal to take metformin anymore the doc had me monitor blood glucose and I was always borderline low with the rare exception of a stupid carb overload (got crazy from a typical 68-80 to maxing out at 110 on rare occasion)... because I had no extremes they were not suspect... 

(took me too long to post due to stupid US conversions