Re: Re: Taking glucophage for PCOS after child-bearing years

September 11, 2005

Thank you all for welcoming me and for your wonderful and timely responses! I'd

like to give you an update. I saw my endocrinologist at Kaiser and I will be

continuing glucophage again once I retake my blood tests! She and not a

gynecologist, will be overseeing my PCOS treatment. She said that in 35% of

women with PCOS, glucophage will actually prevent the onset of diabetes! That's

good news. So, I will return to 500mg, 3 times per day. She even said that

when I reach again my lower weight, she would increase the dosage to help

maintain and stabilize the lower weight. However, after reading some of your

recent e-mails on glucophage and low blood sugar I wonder about that. During

this one month that I am off glucophage, I have been given One Touch Ultra to

test my BG from time to time. I find that I am usually in the average to almost

low range. My husband, who does not have any insulin issues, decided he would

test with me after dinner and he always tests higher than I do!

So, this is interesting: glucophage gives me completely normal cycles and has

for 5 years, and my body, on its own, tends to low blood sugar. Any comments or

insights, particularly as I try relose again some of my weight?

ty Stouffer wrote:

Hey, Janet, welcome to the list!! I know PCOS has been discussed here

in the past, and hopefully someone will weigh in who knows more about

it than I do. Which is nothing!

Christy

September 11, 2005

Janet, as long as your bgs remain above 65, you will do well with

metformin. It has been confirmed that the lower the A1c, in people

without diabetes, the less chance there is for the so-called diabetic

complications.

Now, what's this about your husband? Does he have diabetes?

Helen