When to start metformin pcos
Metformin for PCOS | Week 1
hey guys and welcome back to my channel
today I wanted to give you guys a weekly
update on my very first week of taking
metformin so for those of you that don't
know I was recently diagnosed with
polycystic ovarian syndrome otherwise
known as PCOS and my fertility
reproductive endocrinologist has me
taking metformin to help with that so I
kind of wanted to just give you guys an
update on how week 1 has been going and
I want to do these every week for the
first time three or four weeks of taking
metformin there's not a ton of videos
out there I'm taking it for PCOS and if
there are various areas to draw it out
20 minute videos and I just wanted to be
quick weekly updates letting you know
how it's going for week 1 of taking
metformin I have only been taking 500
milligrams as of yesterday because I
yesterday I was one week I started
taking 1000 milligrams so for week one I
only took 500 milligrams of metformin to
ease my way into it just so it's not a
total shock to my body so day 1 was
really good I was really nervous to take
it just because I don't know so many
people hyped it up and made me nervous
and we're like oh my gosh this
medication was horrible for me and I
just want everybody to know that you
should take everyone's opinions with a
grain of salt when it comes to starting
new medications they affect everybody
differently and you won't know how they
are going to affect you until you start
taking them yourself so started taking
it on a Saturday night I was fully
expecting it to just literally blow up
and make me feel horrible I was fine
Saturday to Sunday and then Monday so I
had taken three days worth of metformin
and I always take it at night right
after I'm done eating dinner and
so three days in I was hit with nausea
which is the first time that had
happened I was just laying in bed it was
almost time for me to like go to bed and
all of a sudden I felt super super
nauseous I got kind of pale I did not
feel good and that lasted for maybe
thirty minutes and then it went away and
I went to sleep woke up and I fine so
yeah
Tuesday Wednesday we're fine I think it
was two days after the nausea I was hit
with a migraine and I already suffered
from migraines so was it coming on I
another coming on and I got hit with one
pretty bad the nausea tunnel vision
elevated heart rate heart palpitations I
couldn't get up so I don't know if that
was a direct correlation with the
metformin but I did have a severe
migraine during the first week of taking
metformin and then I have had small
headaches in between the migraine they
have been a pleasant but not impossible
to live with number one thing you're all
probably wondering what happens with
metformin is the diarrhea and I am no
exception to this case I have had it all
week long but I will say it hasn't been
miserable for me I kind of have like IBS
so I'm kind of used to it of gross
assess sounds and it hasn't been
miserable no it'll say about that other
than it's happening but it's it's
livable it's not that bad it's weird I
go I have on and off days I've been
fluctuating weight all week long within
like three pounds it kind of just been
shifting so I wouldn't say I've had any
weight loss yet so I do think the weight
loss is going to pick up here especially
in the coming weeks because I kind of
mentioned in my last video that I'm
changing my diet and I'm doing so for a
good reason I I wanted to test the
waters and I tried some like carbee
foods this week and dairy to
see how we're doing with the metformin
and it added has kind of bad reactions I
had a bagel one morning and oh my gosh
it was horrible and I'm very sad about
it because I love bagels and cream
cheese but definitely won't ever be
doing that again so after I'm done
filming this I'm actually going to a
natural grocery store and I'm going to
the grocery shopping and what I'm doing
over the next three weeks is eliminating
three major food categories from my diet
one being dairy to being gluten and
three being processed sugars essentially
I'm going to be living a paleo lifestyle
for the remainder of my life but I also
don't want it to be a miserable
experience so I am cutting out those
things week by week so this week for me
I'm cutting out dairy next week is I'm
going to be cutting out gluten into the
gift of that sugars added sugars refined
sugars obviously fruit has sugar but you
know what I mean
the white sugar that tastes good on
everything so that's what I'm going to
be doing right when I'm done filming
this heading to the grocery store and
I'm going to make a separate video on
what I got at the grocery store for my
paleo PCOS guide so that's all I've got
my air conditioner is thinking on so
probably just got loud but yeah thanks
so much for watching subscribe and stay
tuned for metformin week two and a
grocery haul for my new diet I'm not
good lifestyle so yeah thank you guys so
much for watching and I'll see you guys
next time
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