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Sharonjangell_

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I take two metformin slow release per day. My question is do I have to take them with food? Sometimes I only want one meal and don’t want to force myself to eat for the sake of eating to take the pill. I don’t snack either.
 
What does the leaflet that comes with your medication advise?
 
It says as doctor advises but I’ve been told different things by different doctors. It seems they don’t all follow the same guidelines
 
Sharonjangell_ said:
It says as doctor advises but I’ve been told different things by different doctors. It seems they don’t all follow the same guidelines
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I take them with and without food (usually former) and have no issues either way

your prescription should say a recommendation?
 
Sharonjangell_ said:
I take two metformin slow release per day. My question is do I have to take them with food? Sometimes I only want one meal and don’t want to force myself to eat for the sake of eating to take the pill. I don’t snack either.
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I take mine straight after my evening meal as my stomach tolerates it better and I only take one now as the side effects were a bit extreme.
 
Andydragon said:
I take them with and without food (usually former) and have no issues either way

your prescription should say a recommendation?
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It just says one a day for one to two weeks and then increase to two a day. Unfortunately in the current climate trying to get a consistent response from the gp surgery is very difficult as they are super busy with the pandemic
 
Annee456 said:
I take mine straight after my evening meal as my stomach tolerates it better and I only take one now as the side effects were a bit extreme.
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Thank you. I’m on the slow release ones. I had a tummy upset from day two to day four but I’m on two a day now as into third week and touch wood no digestive issues only aching legs at night
 
From personal experience, when I started taking them without food my blood sugar never changed, soon as I had food it would start to go down. I now have them with my breakfast and evening meal and work brilliantly.
 
Dudette1 said:
From personal experience, when I started taking them without food my blood sugar never changed, soon as I had food it would start to go down. I now have them with my breakfast and evening meal and work brilliantly.
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Thank you. I am doing intermittent fasting and don’t eat until about 3pm then usually go to bed about 10pm so fitting in two meals is a bit difficult
 
Sharonjangell_ said:
Thank you. I’m on the slow release ones. I had a tummy upset from day two to day four but I’m on two a day now as into third week and touch wood no digestive issues only aching legs at night
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Sounds good. Hopefully you will be like me, one of the many who tolerates it well. But to be fair, normal metformin was less ideal but as I recall it wasn’t as bad as some poor people get.

Originally when I was on 2000 I took all 4 at night, but moved to taking is split twice a day. I continue to do that on the 1000 I am now on. Not sure if it being split in this way makes a difference being slow release
 
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