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Thanks for the latest replies. As you can see I am a novice diabetic! At present I am booked into a three part course with the local NHS to come to terms with diabetes and learn about diet etc. I have attended two parts with the third in August. At the present we have been recommended not to...

Hello again, I did as suggested and called into the Chemist which dispensed my Metformin. The dispenser had a good look through about half a dozen different products of Metformin and found no reference to gelatin in the ingredients. He said that I was very unlucky to have been given the only...

Hello to all those who responded to my post. The tablet I have is white and made by Metwest Pharmaceuticals described as a film-coated tablet containing Metformin Hydrochloride 500mg and also containing lactose. It has MP8 engraved on one side and METF on the other. In the leaflet under the...

Hello I am a newly diagnosed adult Type 2 Diabetic who happens to be a vegetarian (no meat fish etc since age 7). I have been taking Metformin 500mg tablets for about a week. Having got around to read the leaflet that came with them I see that they contain gelatin which has always been a big...