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For those of you taking Metformin for whatever reason I was wondering if it ever upset your stomach or gives you horrendous gas??
I take 500mg 3x a day basically with my breakfast , lunch and dinner , I worked my way up slowly only taking 250mg with breakfast for a couple days then 250 with lunch for couple days then with dinner , then adding in an additional 250 every few days and didn't have any issues at all but if seems like every now and then I'll get bad cramps and the most gawd awful smelling gas. I pretty much follow a low carb diet get just around 100 grams a day now and even if I eat the same things every once in a while I get the gas.
Now if I have a big carb meal say pizza or pancakes or something I'll take an extra 250mg with that meal and most of the time I'll get a little stomach bloat but not the bad gas , I've been chalking that up to the carbs more than anything.
Do any of you guys ever have this issue??
Am I maybe taking to much considering I'm on a low carb diet??
I take 500mg 3x a day basically with my breakfast , lunch and dinner , I worked my way up slowly only taking 250mg with breakfast for a couple days then 250 with lunch for couple days then with dinner , then adding in an additional 250 every few days and didn't have any issues at all but if seems like every now and then I'll get bad cramps and the most gawd awful smelling gas. I pretty much follow a low carb diet get just around 100 grams a day now and even if I eat the same things every once in a while I get the gas.
Now if I have a big carb meal say pizza or pancakes or something I'll take an extra 250mg with that meal and most of the time I'll get a little stomach bloat but not the bad gas , I've been chalking that up to the carbs more than anything.
Do any of you guys ever have this issue??
Am I maybe taking to much considering I'm on a low carb diet??