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[cbmd]

has anyone been prescribed metformin for pcos that is a normal weight? my doctor just said i wouldnt need it as a weigh a normal weight...but i do really have to watch what i eat and diet everyday just to stay a normal weight....but i dont have any periods at all and wonder whether it would make a difference or not? im 9 stone and 5'3
xx

 

[wantanerd]

My SIL was prescribed it to get pregnant. She has PCOS but isn't insulin resistant.

 

[cbmd]

Thanks...did it help her? I don't see why some doctors prescribe it happily and others only give u it to help weight loss x

 

[wantanerd]

she conceived her third child with the help of metformin. I think it also has been shown to level out hormones.

 

[marieh2008]

Hi im new here. ive been ttc for a while ive had 4 m/cs and one at 23
weeks and 5days my son in 2008. Were starting to ttc again I have pcos and am very overwight im dieting and on metformin will it help me concieve

 

[Soili]

has anyone been prescribed metformin for pcos that is a normal weight? my doctor just said i wouldnt need it as a weigh a normal weight...but i do really have to watch what i eat and diet everyday just to stay a normal weight....but i dont have any periods at all and wonder whether it would make a difference or not? im 9 stone and 5'3
xx

cbmd, if you have to work hard to maintain your weight, then yes, I would think you could benefit from Metformin. If I work my butt off, I too manage to stay within healthy weight range without medication, but it is in fact every day's struggle. If I let go and eat like everyone else around me, then I gain weight.

Mention to your doc that your healthy weight is a result of everyday's effort to keep it that way and that you gain easily if stop controlling every bite. Studies show that Metformin + Clomid proven to be more effective than Clomid only for PCOS girls.

 

[cbmd]

has anyone been prescribed metformin for pcos that is a normal weight? my doctor just said i wouldnt need it as a weigh a normal weight...but i do really have to watch what i eat and diet everyday just to stay a normal weight....but i dont have any periods at all and wonder whether it would make a difference or not? im 9 stone and 5'3
xx

cbmd, if you have to work hard to maintain your weight, then yes, I would think you could benefit from Metformin. If I work my butt off, I too manage to stay within healthy weight range without medication, but it is in fact every day's struggle. If I let go and eat like everyone else around me, then I gain weight.

Mention to your doc that your healthy weight is a result of everyday's effort to keep it that way and that you gain easily if stop controlling every bite. Studies show that Metformin + Clomid proven to be more effective than Clomid only for PCOS girls.

thanks for your replies - i think i'll go back to the doctor next week. I have to exercise every week and eat hardly anything just to say the same weight, for two days at christmas i just ate like a normal person and put on 5 pounds, which now i just cant get rid of now matter how hard it try. sometimes i think little children probably eat more than me!! i might try find some information on what you said and take it with me as ammunintion.....xx

 

[MariaF]

Yes, I have been put on Metformin and I was never overweight. I was always slim whilst on the Pill and when I stopped it I did put on 14 pounds so Metformin helped me lose that but I was still never very heavy.

Also, they didn't even bother testing me for insulin resistance. My FS just said that most PCOS ladies benefit from being on Metformin so he prescribed it.

Now I have to stay on it right through till labour as it lowers the risk of m/c and gestational diabetes.

 

[cbmd]

Yes, I have been put on Metformin and I was never overweight. I was always slim whilst on the Pill and when I stopped it I did put on 14 pounds so Metformin helped me lose that but I was still never very heavy.

Also, they didn't even bother testing me for insulin resistance. My FS just said that most PCOS ladies benefit from being on Metformin so he prescribed it.

Now I have to stay on it right through till labour as it lowers the risk of m/c and gestational diabetes.

wow thanks, congratulations too on your pregnancy! - how long were you on metformin for? did u think it helped you?
x

 

[MariaF]

Overall I have been taking Metformin for 18 months now. It's hard to say if Metformin did anything for me on its own...but Clomid worked ever time (except once). And they say Clomid usually works better with Metformin.

I also had Ovarian drilling 8 months before my BFP and I believe that was what really helped me. But I stayed on Metformin so I guess I partially have to thank Metformin too!!

I liked m FS's approach to put all PCOS ladies on it because as he said majority do benefit. I am on Extended release version so I never had any nasty side effects. It did used to give me loose stomach to begin with but that actuall helped with the weight loss so I didn't mind

 

[mrsfazz]

Hi Ladies. I was put on metaformin 2 years ago by my specialist to try and help with weight lose and also to regulate my AF, oh and to help with my insulin resistance. this did not help me at all! I managed to lose 25kg by myself through exercise and eating healthy. I have also had a regular period since october (46 day cycle) but still there and now I have just got my BFP and this was after going off my Met. So sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt it really depends on the individual. hope this helps

 

[Oobies]

Well I did have a good feeling about it, Ive been on Metformin for a week now...My cycles are irregular (anywhere between 26 to 62 days), apparently I haven't been ovulating and I am overweight, couple that with the severe depression that I haven't been able to do anything about because anti-depressants make it even harder to conceive (we've been trying almost 2 years now)...so far the metformin has succeeded in bringing my mood up, simply because now we're doing something that means I can actually finally trust the hope that I've been continuously trying to irradicate for the past 18 months, because it's been to painful to allow the hope in only to have it shattered month after month...
Oh well, I guess we'll just wait and see hey?

Gratz on youy BFP though, H&H 9 months for you =)

 

[Oobies]

I think I'll take my leave permanently from this forum. For the most part you guys have been great when I've been around but I really just don't feel apart of it.
Plus I still find it painful to be around all the baby stuff and even when I'm doing ok it only takes one comment and I'm off the rails again all set for a horrible day (like today, I've cried twice so far, and I'd been feeling almost great since we found out what was wrong...wait, make that 3 times).
I'm really just not up to this and it's not fair on OH either.
Thanks anyway,
Dannie

 

[Soili]

Oobies, hun, the thing I've learned over the last year is that you gotta do whatever it is that makes you feel better. There's no right or wrong. If you wanna avoid the forum altogether - it is absolutely fine! If you wanna pop up every now and then - absolutely fine! If you wanna stalk quietly - absolutely fine!

I've been a complete emotional wreck most of the last year, ever since I found out I had PCOS. I'm much better now, but back then it didn't seem like I would ever get out of the mental craze I was in. I felt responsible for it somehow and guilty and my emotional outbursts at times made me feel like I was a complete psycho and that I'm being so selfish to unload it to my DH.

PCOS is not easy, especially when TTC, and everyone copes with it in their own way. One day you might wanna chat for hours about it, another day you might not even wanna hear the word.

You gotta give it time, hun. Let all the information settle in. Find YOUR way to deal with it. Just remember, it does get better. It takes time, but it does get better.

 

[marieh2008]

Good Morning ladies I was wondering if you could give me some advice. Im finally ttc but not looking at it that way. I have a dreadsful cold will this affect my chances and should I avoid taking anything. We only did the deed last night and i think this is my fertile week. and in the past i have had issues with pcos and cm being dry. Any advice I would be very grateful

 

[pdmcd17]

oobies I had to take a break in sept i just came back on. We all understand ttc is so difficult and emotional - Good luck hon

Marieh be careful with some of the cough and cold stuff it can dry up the cm if your concerned ask the pharmacist (chemist i think if you in the UK)

 

[wannabemummyb]

Ladies i need some advice if that's ok?

This cycle was 118 days, af finally arrived 11 days ago after some time of spotting. Af is light-medium (for me) and tmi brown and clotty, only small amout of red, and still here on cd11. Considering i only started getting regular periods again in march and i'm still new ish to pcos (contraceptives stopped my af for 7years) i need to know if i should be concerned?

Oobies - you need to do what helps you. I come and go from the forum depending on my mood! Gl huni x

 

[Soili]

wannabemummyb, your AF sounds like an anovulatory bleeding/spotting to me. The kind you get when your uterus sheds lining because it cannot sustain it anymore, unlike the AF you get at the end of the luteal phase. To answer your question, if you should be concerned... well, that depends. When you say your periods were regular since March, how long were they? Do you chart to confirm ovulation?

 

[wannabemummyb]

wannabemummyb, your AF sounds like an anovulatory bleeding/spotting to me. The kind you get when your uterus sheds lining because it cannot sustain it anymore, unlike the AF you get at the end of the luteal phase. To answer your question, if you should be concerned... well, that depends. When you say your periods were regular since March, how long were they? Do you chart to confirm ovulation?

My cycle was every 35 days, with no mid cycle spotting. I don't currently chart, i tried for a few months but never got the hang of it, although i intend to start again.

I have ewcm, however did not have any this cycle

 

[Soili]

Oh, cool! If I were you, I'd wait and see what the next cycle will be like then! It's ok to have a long anovulatory cycle every now and then.

See if you can remember if you haven't by any chance done something different this last cycle, especially in the beginning of it, or the end of the previous one. Sometimes some vitamins/supplement can mess you up, even if in theory they're supposed to aim fertility.