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Suggest Dosage For Metformin

I recently read a news article about a 57 year old woman taking Metformin and it triggered hot flashes, nnight sweats, nausea, stomach pains and dyrreha. My PG doubled my Metformin from 1000 up to 2000 mg per day 6 weeks ago, and I am suffering the same symptoms, at age 75... When I told her, the recommendation was to cut the tablet into 4ths & take it 4x/day. Would you have a better solution?
Fri, 11 Dec 2015
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With metformin gut side effects are common .My advice is to stop
metformin few days and than start afresh with minimum dose may
be 500 mgs/day .
Slow release coated metformin tablets are better tolerated
but do not break them.
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Suggest Dosage For Metformin

With metformin gut side effects are common .My advice is to stop metformin few days and than start afresh with minimum dose may be 500 mgs/day . Slow release coated metformin tablets are better tolerated but do not break them.