Metformin help please?

Question

I've been given metformin to help me regulate cycles but also to lose weight too but I have questions:
How bad are the bathroom trips? I'm trying to decide when to start it for minimum disruption.
What time did you take it?
Do you take with food or alone? 
Has anyone lost any weight?
Has it regulated your cycles?
Any other tips??
Thanks

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I was put on metformin around two months ago for PCOS, basically cause I was only ovulating 3-ish times a year. I started at 500mg a day and after a week doubled it.. the side effects are different for everyone but for me it was mild nausea and mild constipation, i took them in the middle of a meal and upped my water intake and it seemed to help a little initially but now i have next to no symptoms and am 6 weeks pregnant 😬😂 I dare say I haven't lost weight but can only imagine it's the reason I got my BFP ✨😊 best of luck.

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I took it for a while for my diabetes also. I usually took it in the morning with food because my doctor told me it would upset my stomach if i didn't. I lost about 7 lbs every month while on it. 
Hope this helps a bit.

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I take mine at bed time I seem to have less bathroom issues that way.... also start with 1 pill... once you get used to that go to 2 and then so on...

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I just started. Was pretty tired and naseous the first week. No symptoms in my second week. I take it in the evening with dinner and you're supposed to sleep off the effects. Definitely makes me feel full all the time do sometimes a little weird. I have no soft stool but maybe that's because I'm taking so many other vitamins that is making me constipated. I also drink a lot of water so definitely not dehydrated. Good luck

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My dr put me on to regulate my period and it's has not helped at all. Haven't had a period since march. Been on met for 4 months. It does not make my stomach hurt or feel nauseous at all but I do have diarrhea when I eat bad. Sweets, junk food, fried food. If I eat it here and there I'm fine but if I have a few bad days it gets bad. It also makes my heart rate spike when drinking alcohol!! I don't drink often but if I do then my Fitbit shows my heart rate is in fat burn zone the whole time! So weird.

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2,000mg/day here. I take the morning dose with food and the evening with my prenatal right before bed. It keeps me regular 😛

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i recently started taking metformin 500 once a day. i take it with a prenatal vitamin, half way between my breakfast. i was some what apprehensive as i had read SO MANY people stressing how horrible the side effects were. as luck would have it, my experience so far: not one stomachache, not one case of diarrhea, not one incident of vomiting, not even so much as a headache. actually, i feel pretty great, physically and mentally. i did, however on the third day of taking metformin, experience a sudden and bloody (and i do mean crazy blood) onset of my period. which scared the shit out of me as i had just finished my period about a week before starting the medication. the bleeding was heavy for two days, medium for one, light/spotting for one, and then it was	 done.
beside being totally freaked out by the second period in a month, even that wasn't horrible. inconvenient, yes but totally a breeze.
i hope it works out the same for you.

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