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Originally Posted by rach wow. right now i'm taking 500 mg metformin twice daily, (1) 10 mg lisinopril , (1) baby aspirin and (1) 10 mg glipizide. i haven't started the glipizide cause i was nervous about taking so many meds at once. plus after reading the side effects/drug interactions on the pharmacy sheet attached to my prescipt i kinda started realizing i am having side effects... my doctor told me to up my metformin to 3x a day but since i started taking more i am feeling bloated all the time and i'm experience a loss of appetite for drink/food. i'm goin back to 2x a day and start the glipizide tomorrow. i haven't started my exercise program, i work at night so most of the day i'm sleeping and on my days off i try to keep the same sleep schedule so i don't throw myself off too much... i'm thinking of getting an elliptical machine for home so i can stop thinking of more excuses not to exercise. |
I also take Lisinopril and Aspirin.
The bloated feeling is almost certainly due to the Metformin, I would guess. Metformin causes all sorts of different effects in different people - all gastrointestinal. I tolerated about six months of these effects before they started to subside and now I have absolutely no side effects.
When I started on Metformin one of the bad effects was very loose bowels - now, I am absolutely normal.
If you have any Metformin side effects which are affecting your bowels, then exercise could well help.
