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Glucophage SR 500mg

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Ginny0504

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Hi, I have recently been given these particular tablets to take but they are huge!! Does anyone take a similar tablet which is small please? I am really struggling to swallow these. Thank you.
 
Can you not break them in half Ginny? Or are they capsules?
 
These are slow release Metformin, and the mechanism used to produce the slow release means they have to be big. I don't know of a slow release version that is any smaller. The normal (non slow release) version of met tablets are much smaller, but many of us get unacceptable side effects (diarrhoea, cramps, bloating, wind etc.) when taking them, and ask for the slow release version which suits many of us better. You are lucky to have been prescribed the SR, as they are a lot more expensive, but I realise that doesn't help if they are too big to take. Whatever you do, don't be tempted to break or crush them.... they won't work properly if you do. I suggesdt you discuss this with your doctor, or pharmacist.
 
Yes I could but the length not so much the problem as the thickness and width, they are huge or seem like that to me!! There are other brands of the same tablet out there, I just wondered if there was one that was much smaller? "Hedex" size would be ok, these seems like more than double the size!!
 
Hi they do it in a powder form which you mix with water , tastes disgusting but if you can't swallow the tablets. Also there are other brands of metformin that make it in a round tablet, but can't remember the brand sorry
 
You are lucky to have the Glucophage SR brand presumably by Merck which I normally have. My chemist sometimes substitutes a much larger Metformin SR tablet from another supplier which are enormous.....
 
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