Metformin for PCOS: How much do you take?

[rdy4number2]

My general dr. diagnosed me with PCOS and put me on 1000mg of metformin a day. It just doesn't seem like enough to me. Everything I look at online leans toward 1500 mg a day. What dose do you take??

 

[MrsCompass]

I take 3 x 500mg per day. One of the girls in the femara friends group, her dosage is 2500mg. My neighbour is also taking 1000mg.

 

[LaurenTCanada]

I'm taking 1500 mg a day, but I started out on only 500 and gradually increased. It took a while for my body to get used to it and I felt sick for quite a while. Maybe they just want to take it slow?

 

[rdy4number2]

I take 3 x 500mg per day. One of the girls in the femara friends group, her dosage is 2500mg. My neighbour is also taking 1000mg.

Cool! Your icon is my icon with some finesse!!

What effect has your 1500 had on you? I"ve been taking 1000mg a day since October. So far my cycles don't seem much better.

 

[rdy4number2]

I'm taking 1500 mg a day, but I started out on only 500 and gradually increased. It took a while for my body to get used to it and I felt sick for quite a while. Maybe they just want to take it slow?

I wish that were the case, but I'm on my 3rd bottle of 1000mg and I called her to up it and she said no. I"m going to go to an ob/gyn in February and see what else can be done. Is metformin the ONLY answer to PCOS? I seem to ovulate every month so I don't understand why I"m not pregnant (even if I have PCOS).

 

[wannabemummyb]

I take 1500mg, as 500mg trice daily.

Afaik metformin helps regulate the hormones which helps the PCOS but obviously does not cure it. Other than clomid to make women ov, i am not sure there is another treatment, hopefully i am wrong.

 

[LaurenTCanada]

I'm taking 1500 mg a day, but I started out on only 500 and gradually increased. It took a while for my body to get used to it and I felt sick for quite a while. Maybe they just want to take it slow?

I wish that were the case, but I'm on my 3rd bottle of 1000mg and I called her to up it and she said no. I"m going to go to an ob/gyn in February and see what else can be done. Is metformin the ONLY answer to PCOS? I seem to ovulate every month so I don't understand why I"m not pregnant (even if I have PCOS).

Heya,

how do you know you ovulate every month? You can still get your period every month and not O. Happens to me all the time...

 

[MrsCompass]

I take 3 x 500mg per day. One of the girls in the femara friends group, her dosage is 2500mg. My neighbour is also taking 1000mg.

Cool! Your icon is my icon with some finesse!!

What effect has your 1500 had on you? I've been taking 1000mg a day since October. So far my cycles don't seem much better.

I noticed that too about our icon. I was looking for a lotus flower because I have heard that it symbolizes fertility and i found this photo.

Metformin gives me lots of bathroom trips. I've been so bad with it since the holidays started ... But with all the holiday festivities, I couldn't risk having to RUN to the bathroom. I need to get back at it.

 

[Chiles]

I am taking 2000 mg a day

 

[rdy4number2]

I'm taking 1500 mg a day, but I started out on only 500 and gradually increased. It took a while for my body to get used to it and I felt sick for quite a while. Maybe they just want to take it slow?

I wish that were the case, but I'm on my 3rd bottle of 1000mg and I called her to up it and she said no. I"m going to go to an ob/gyn in February and see what else can be done. Is metformin the ONLY answer to PCOS? I seem to ovulate every month so I don't understand why I"m not pregnant (even if I have PCOS).

Heya,

how do you know you ovulate every month? You can still get your period every month and not O. Happens to me all the time...

I'm not 100 percent I do. I have done my basal temp. charting for 3 months and those 3 months showed/detected ovulation on fertility friend. I get the positive opks and have a lot of pain one day mid-cycle. So I would say I do, but not 100 percent pos.

 

[LaurenTCanada]

Well that is a good sign. I haven't started charting yet. I am thinking about starting to next cycle. It all seems so confusing though... do you have a good website to learn?

 

[rdy4number2]

Well that is a good sign. I haven't started charting yet. I am thinking about starting to next cycle. It all seems so confusing though... do you have a good website to learn?

fertilityfriend.com has all kind of little tutorials about it. If you have any questions I would love to help.

 

[downwardsun]

It took me Two years to get pregnanct twice which both resulted in a MS. My doctor prescribed the met at 1000 mg a day because he felt my periods were too far apart (40 days) and told me to come back in three months. Using the Met and a VERY low carb/no sugar diet (That is supposedly the only diet that helps PCOS) I was pregnant before the follow up and so far everything sees to be going well. I really think the Low Carbing was the oomph I needed.

 

[Feb4th2011]

Hey hun! My Doctor wanted me to take 1500mg, but once i went past 1000mg i became extremely ill. So I'm sticking to 1000mg.
to you!