Metformin?

[NEJ in MO]

Hi Dr Heather

I am just about to start the Insulite System for the first time. My doctor still has me on Metformin twice a day but I am allowing my body a break from Clomid/etc. for the holidays. I am trying to get pregnant after 11 years of marriage and NO luck. I was diagnosed with PCOD & Fibroid tumors about 4 years ago.

How will Metformin affect taking the System? Also, do you have a suggestion on when/time to take each dose along with the program?

Thanks!

[drheather]

Hi Dr Heather

I am just about to start the Insulite System for the first time. My doctor still has me on Metformin twice a day but I am allowing my body a break from Clomid/etc. for the holidays. I am trying to get pregnant after 11 years of marriage and NO luck. I was diagnosed with PCOD & Fibroid tumors about 4 years ago.

How will Metformin affect taking the System? Also, do you have a suggestion on when/time to take each dose along with the program?

Thanks!

Hello!

Thanks for writing in. I am glad to hear that you have chosen to use the PCOS System. Sorry to hear about your struggle to conceive. I do hope that this proves to make the difference for you.

Metformin prevents your liver from manufacturing glucose when you are in between meals and when you are asleep at night. This drug is used to slow your own body's secretion of blood sugar which decreases your pancreas' secretion of insulin. Once someone goes off this drug, if they have not changed their lifestyle, the will return to where they started.

The Insulite System helps you learn to take in less glucose (through your diet) and helps you dispose of it better (through your muscles due to exercising) and these two things have bigger consequences in your body while you are on the system. We feel that the Insulite System treats the cause of the disorder-- being insensitive to your insulin-- by increasing your cell's response to your insulin whereas Metformin addresses the secretion of glucose only. Basically, both are aimed at lowering insulin but in different ways.

With that said, we do have many customers using anti-hyperglycemic medications such as metformin. We strongly encourage customers using these types of medications to closely monitor their blood sugar with a home glucometer for the first few weeks on the System. The PCOS System can be very effective at lowering blood sugar, and we don't want anyone's blood sugar to decrease unexpectedly. Symptoms of low blood sugar include low energy, fatigue, dizziness, headaches, irritibility, etc.

When using metformin with the Insulite PCOS System, please make sure to take it separately from the GlucX product. GlucX contains fiber, which may interfere with the absorption of other medications if they are taken simultaneously. We recommend taking the GlucX 4 hours apart from other medications and supplements.

As you might have already found out, this can make it difficult to spread everything out enough and fit it all in.

Here is a suggested dosing schedule:
- 1/2 hour before breakfast: PCOS + - 2 caps
- With breakfast: InsulX - 2 caps and RejuvenX - 2 caps, Metformin
- With Lunch: InsulX - 2 caps and RejuvenX - 2 caps
- Between lunch and dinner: PCOS + - 2 caps
- Dinner: Metformin
- After dinner/before bed: GlucX - 3 caps (if it’s been 4 hours since dinner)

If you find that you can not fit it all in, remove one dose of the GlucX. This is ok, if in the future you find that the dose of metformin is not required you can get resume the full dose.

Let me know how this works and how you are doing. I wish you the best.