sourgurl77's Diaryland Diary

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positive!

I've been researching Metiform.

I haven't started taking it yet, I might try it tonight.

Anyway I found a good explanation of just what it is and what it does:

What is this medicine supposed to do?

Well, one of the main problems with pcos, is that many women with it have something called insulin resistance. My gyn explained it as: I have a high level of estrogen as my ovaries are pumping it out like crazy, and my body, trying to break down the estrogen stores it in fat cells. Either the estrogen or the fat cells (they aren't 100% sure) leads to a higher level of insulin in the blood. This higher amount of insulin causes the polycystic woman to get hungry- a lot! It causes headaches from unstable sugar levels and peaks and lows and the increased hunger adds increased weight -and, you guessed it, more spaces to hold estrogen in the body. Once these fat cells get the estrogen in them, they don't want to let go!! With all of the fatty cells, estrogen and insulin levels, the woman usually stops ovulating on schedule and many times, stop ovulating altoghter. This leads to infertility.
Metformin is supposed to moderate the levels of insulin in the body and counteract the fact that the body has a ton of estrogen and not enough progesterone. It is not 100% conclusive, but they are finding that miraculously, women who take Metformin are starting to Ovulate again! They start to lose weight, their insulen levels normalize and amazingly enough, with the weight loss, the body's natural ability to combat PCOS takes over. Some women can get off of the Metformin and go on to live happy and healthy lives as long as they monitor their weight. Some women never will be able to combat the disease, but the good news is that Metformin will help them until menopause when the ovaries shut down, but at the same time, it keeps these Insulin resistant women from developing Diabetes.

NOTE - I took this from a blog.

Anyway, I've read ways to help this pill work with you and I'm going to really try to adhere to them or suffer the side effects. Which is basically a low carb diet.

Also I read to take it with food and milk or at night. Also to drink a lot of water.

So yeah. I'm getting kind of excited about taking it. Really, with weight loss and fixing up my hormones, I feel good.

I know I'm different because of my version of PCOS is just irregular periods and hormone imbalance. I'm grateful I don't have ovaries swiss cheese style or whatever else.

I'm excited and scared. I want this to happen, but now feel afraid of this unknown - I hate taking meds. I'll survive. Be positive!

2:58 p.m. - 2009-01-16

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