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<blockquote data-quote="))Denise((" data-source="post: 619369" data-attributes="member: 27532"><p>This is an old thread [USER=97664]@jack412[/USER] </p><p></p><p>I now take 2000mg metformin a day <a href="http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/formulary/bnf/current/6-endocrine-system/61-drugs-used-in-diabetes/612-antidiabetic-drugs/6122-biguanides/metformin-hydrochloride" target="_blank">http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/formulary/bnf/current/6-endocrine-system/61-drugs-used-in-diabetes/612-antidiabetic-drugs/6122-biguanides/metformin-hydrochloride</a></p><p></p><p>You can take up to 2550mg a day, I can't find the evidence, but the maximum was lowered due to the extra 550mg not having much effect. Most newly diagnosed will not be put on 2550mg, but as I was diagnosed in 2007 and put on this amount in 2008, that was normal practice then. I have seen in my time here people on 3000mg..</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.rdehospital.nhs.uk/docs/patients/diabetes/RDE%20diabetes%20-%20type%202%20glycaemia%20-%20metformin.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.rdehospital.nhs.uk/docs/patients/diabetes/RDE diabetes - type 2 glycaemia - metformin.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="))Denise((, post: 619369, member: 27532"] This is an old thread [USER=97664]@jack412[/USER] I now take 2000mg metformin a day [url]http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/formulary/bnf/current/6-endocrine-system/61-drugs-used-in-diabetes/612-antidiabetic-drugs/6122-biguanides/metformin-hydrochloride[/url] You can take up to 2550mg a day, I can't find the evidence, but the maximum was lowered due to the extra 550mg not having much effect. Most newly diagnosed will not be put on 2550mg, but as I was diagnosed in 2007 and put on this amount in 2008, that was normal practice then. I have seen in my time here people on 3000mg.. [url]http://www.rdehospital.nhs.uk/docs/patients/diabetes/RDE%20diabetes%20-%20type%202%20glycaemia%20-%20metformin.pdf[/url] [/QUOTE]
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