Metformin and stomach issues - am I making it worse?

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CIarebear

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I was diagnosed at the begining of the month and started on normal metformin 500mg twice a day. It gave me stomach ache and diarrhoea so my doctor changed me over to the SR version which I take 750mg with my evening meal, I've been on these since last thursday, so almost a week, and I'm still having stomach problems. Since starting on the metformin I've been taking loperamide (imodium) after every stomach upset, but now I'm wondering if that could be contributing in a way to the issues I'm having?
 
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theoldfunker

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ClareBearJ said:
I was diagnosed at the begining of the month and started on normal metformin 500mg twice a day. It gave me stomach ache and diarrhoea so my doctor changed me over to the SR version which I take 750mg with my evening meal, I've been on these since last thursday, so almost a week, and I'm still having stomach problems. Since starting on the metformin I've been taking loperamide (imodium) after every stomach upset, but now I'm wondering if that could be contributing in a way to the issues I'm having?
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Hi ClareBearJ. This happened to me also but with the change to slow release things did settle down but yes it took more than a week.
 
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