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If you don't manage taking metformin with large enough meals etc, you get wonderful "metformin moments" (i.e. uncontrollable diarrhea like you've got food poiso

If you don't manage taking metformin with large enough meals etc, you get wonderful "metformin moments" (i.e. uncontrollable diarrhea like you've got food poisoning). Gotta weigh up those risks. :)

gozur88 9y ago
My dad was on that stuff and he decided his quality of life was so low he wouldn't take it under any circumstances.
nikolay 9y ago
Only 20% of patients get this and for them, there's the sustained/extended release version - Metformin ER, or Glucophage SR/XR.