Metformin for PCOS?

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Hi, I have just been prescribed metformin for PCOS with the hope to start Clomid in Nov.BMI is 21 so not overweight. any tips/good news stories? Started on 500mg this week and working up to 1500mg. Feel so bloated!!

Hi I have been on metformin 500mg twice a day for 10 years, when I got diagnosed then with PCOS I had no periods, in the last 5 years I started having regular periods and in the last 3 years we have been trying for a baby, I have had all the tests under the sun and the one that has come out all ok is that I am ovulating naturally every month and they think this is purely down to the metformin (so ovulating isn't our problem they have said we have unexplained infertility). I can't speak highly enough of metformin, it helped me loose weight, my hair growth slowed down and to top it all off I got periods and ovulate regularly- I know mine isn't a success story about conceiving but I thought it might reassure you about the drug. I am currently on two cycles of clomid 50mg a day for 5 days as they said I have nothing to loose it should make me produce more eggs which of course increases your chances, if that doesn't work IVF for us :( I wish you luck with your metformin x

I first went on metformin not really knowing what it did and fell pregnant (very unexpectedly as I was used a bit rubbish with contraception as I thought I didn't have much chance of falling pregnant!) within a few months.

Went back on it for dc2 and had to wait a little bit longer but it still worked. Not on it now as after I had him my cycle seemed to jump start itself and is now like clockwork.

Hope you find it works for you!

Thanks ladies! These messages are giving me incentive to keep taking it as currently feeling really nauseous and bloated!! Praying it does the trick x

I remember that I had that when I started the metformin but after a short while that dissapears - if it doesn't I have found over the years to stop feeling nauseous and to stop the stomach upsets taking the metformin after lunch or dinner and with a glass of milk really helps x
After 10 years I am a b*dy expert on metformin! :)