GLUCOPHAGE Reviews (METFORMIN HYDROCHLORIDE)

Average Rating: 3.4 (586 Ratings)

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GLUCOPHAGE  (METFORMIN HYDROCHLORIDE):  Metformin is used with a proper diet and exercise program and possibly with other medications to control high blood sugar. It is used in patients with type 2 diabetes. Controlling high blood sugar helps prevent kidney damage, blindness, nerve problems, loss of limbs, and sexual function problems. Proper control of diabetes may also lessen your risk of a heart attack or stroke. Metformin works by helping to restore your body's proper response to the insulin you naturally produce. It also decreases the amount of sugar that your liver makes and that your stomach/intestines absorb.   FDA Approval Date: 1995-03-03 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)

  

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DOSAGE		DATE ADDED
 
 1  type 2 diabetes @500MG had some stomach pains and diarreah.@1000MG had severe fatigue and chest pain.I had pains in my stomach with diarreah.left side of chest had numb deep pain. Kept explaining this to my doctor he was no help for months.I just finally told him I refuse to take it any more.I was so sick I thought I had cancer or something.I kept working and was in so much pain I thought I would have to quit my job because of the physical pain I was in. M 39 4 months
500 mg 2X day		 9/3/2010
 1  metformin Gas and bloating, diarhea, abdominal pain, pain in upper left quadrant of my back. Dr wanted to send my for all kinds of tests and its the metformin all the time. I thought I had some mysterious disease seen on House M.D. :-) M 47 1 days
 5/7/2006
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 1  Type 2 diabetes It turned me into a ticking poop bomb. I could have sudden and explosive diarea at any time, as well as constant upset stomach. I stopped taking it and became regular again, and I felt a lot better. And it did nothing for my blood glocose level. M 55 3 weeks
500 mg 2X day		 6/29/2012
 1  Type 2 Diabetes Fecal incontinence ... bad! I didn't dare leave the house. Constant nausea and periods of vomiting. There's gotta be a better way that this 'wonder' drug. Taken for over a year but am stopping now. M 70
11/28/2004
 1  type 2 Heart palpitations, pain in middle of stomach just under the sternum, felt like tennis ball, cramps and diarhea. My reading has not exceeded 130 (14 day avg 113) After stopping the medication, have not seen increase but have started exercise and diet regime. M 62 25 days
 7/7/2007
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 1  High blood sugar Nausea vomiting with no warning gas pains Horrible drug. I took it for two years. Did nothing to lower blood glucose and I was always sick from it. Don’t take this crap!! M 62 2 years
1000		 7/8/2018

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