Metformin after Surgery...

gingin · 04-17-2008, 10:57 PM

Hi everyone...I, too, have PCOS and have been on Metformin for years now. I was wondering how everyone is taking their Metformin once they've been banded...I take 2 500mg XR tablets twice a day, and, man....they are huge pills. Did your docs switch you to a liquid medication or can you still swallow the pills? I know that the extended release tabs that I'm on obviously cant come in liquid form...but I dont ever get that gittery, low blood sugar thing with the XR so I will be bummed if I have to switch back to the regular stuff.
Anyway...any input is appreciated :)

**Jack** · 04-18-2008, 08:14 AM

I just started chewing my own 1000mg tab and swallowing it.

Yes they are bitter. Seems to work.

renewedhope · 04-18-2008, 03:50 PM

If you chew an extended release tab then it is no longer extended release.

TulipStar · 04-19-2008, 08:13 AM

I just stopped taking them. My insulin resistance has dissapeared and according to my dr I don't need the metforming anymore.

**Jack** · 04-19-2008, 08:29 AM

re: "it is no longer extended release."

true....however, mine is not extended release....

Shalee04 · 04-19-2008, 09:25 AM

I cut mine into 4 pieces and swallow with hot tea usally. I am not very tight so for right now this works, later if I get a tighter fill I may have to chew them.

blg20002000 · 04-20-2008, 12:30 AM

I take 2 850 mg tabs and yes they are big but I can still swallow them...I even have a pretty tight fill right now and there are lots of things I can't eat but my medicines always go down.

Yvonne72 · 05-24-2008, 03:03 PM

I just use a pill crusher- i asked the pharmacist and he advised me to do it this way with the type I have.
I was on 2000mg/day- but the day of surgery, my doc cut in half. He said I won't even need it anymore soon enough.

BUT yesterday, I took my water pill and spent the day in the bathroom. I usually take 4 of them and only took 1 yesterday. YIKES- that was a rough day:(