Metformin Makes Me STINK! - Page 4

Goslinprincess · #46 (**permalink**) 09-07-2009, 07:45 PM

i've been using metformin for 3 years now, and that has never happened to me, my father as well.... have you asked your doctor about it?

Rainboww · #47 (**permalink**) 09-08-2009, 08:54 AM

the various brands of Metformin, which is also called Glucophage, have a standard amount of the actual chemical, like 500 mgs. but the additives used for binding and filling the tablet out can be different. I'm curious to know what Teva uses for binder and filler in their tablets! haha

kerryaki · #48 (**permalink**) 09-08-2009, 09:13 AM

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All I know is it is Metformin. If there are different brands, I am not aware of that. The prescription bottle says "Metformin", so I assume it is not generic. It is the same one I've been taking since I learned I have Type 2 Diabetes almost a year ago. I am SO done with this stupid disease! IT HAS RUINED MY LIFE! Now, thanks to the medication, I can't even stand the smell of myself! I'm isolated. IT SUCKS!

I'm over this dumb disease, as well! I can relate to how you are feeling. I wish I could turn the calendar back to mid 2007, before I was diagnosed.
I don't think I smell from the Metformin, per se (but will be asking my husband later!), but I have noticed that the last two bottles I've gotten have REEKED of urine when I opened them. It's enough to make me GAG! I dread having to take them every day. (I thought I might have ticked the pharmacist off or something, and he was just getting back at me, if you know what I mean! Come to think of it, they never have my 'scrip ready on time! Maybe it takes a day for the urine to dry...)

Rainboww · #49 (**permalink**) 09-08-2009, 09:31 AM

" the last two bottles I've gotten have REEKED of urine when I opened them."

Ask your pharmacist if they have changed the company that they get it from.

Metformin is the generic name. Glucophage is a brand name. More than one company make the generic.. I call the company that makes it a 'brand'. Anyway, my pharmacy has just changed the company that they buy the generic Metformin from. Maybe yours has too. It's a big chain that I haven't named, but maybe you get yours from the same chain. I called another big chain to see and they have been using Teva for a long time. I bought a new bottle yesterday from a pharmacy that uses a company called Apotex. It does not smell bad.

kerryaki · #50 (**permalink**) 09-10-2009, 05:47 PM

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Ask your pharmacist if they have changed the company that they get it from.

Metformin is the generic name. Glucophage is a brand name. More than one company make the generic.. I call the company that makes it a 'brand'. Anyway, my pharmacy has just changed the company that they buy the generic Metformin from. Maybe yours has too. It's a big chain that I haven't named, but maybe you get yours from the same chain. I called another big chain to see and they have been using Teva for a long time. I bought a new bottle yesterday from a pharmacy that uses a company called Apotex. It does not smell bad.

Thank you for the info. I'm going to do that!

Rainboww · #51 (**permalink**) 09-10-2009, 07:49 PM

I was telling a new nurse that I'd recently been having a problem with stinking Metformin pills, and she said, 'oh, yeah! that's the first thing I tell patients is that Metformin stinks!'
I said, 'you didn't let me finish - I found out that it is a difference in the ingredients between one manufacturer and another.' She didn't believe me, so I showed her both bottles and asked her to smell the difference. haha She turned up her nose and didn't even want to smell the one to compare. I held the new bottle in front of her but she didn't put her nose down to smell, though she could see the shape of it. Then I put the Teva one to show her and opened it. She didn't even have to get her nose close.. haha she could smell it from a couple of feet away!

RandallFlagg · #52 (**permalink**) 09-10-2009, 08:03 PM

I get mine filled at Costco and it's mfg is Apotex. It has a smell to it, but I'm not sure if it's stinky. Does anyone else use this mfg and what do you think of the smell? To those that have found the non smelling ones, where did you fill it and who is the mfg? Thanks.

Rainboww · #53 (**permalink**) 09-10-2009, 09:52 PM

My new one is from Cosco and is Apotex. The one from Teva,, Walgreen's carries Teva,, and it is Rite-Aid that just switched to Teva. I don't know who the manufacturer is of the ones I used to get before Rite Aid switches. The Apotex may have a mild smell, but believe me, it's not like the Teva one.. hahaha

Rainboww · #54 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009, 04:15 AM

I have to make a correction... the pharmacy is Osco and not Cosco that carries Apotex metformin.

Rainboww · #55 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009, 07:42 AM

I don't see how to edit posts here after they are posted, or I would add this on to the last one,, but, maybe this is okay because maybe people have read the last one and wouldn't see the addition.

I just found out that Rite Aid was using a manufacturer named Izax before they switched to Teva. A pharmacist at my local one is going to try to see if she can order from Izax or not. I'll let you know.

NewdestinyX · #56 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Rainboww

I don't see how to edit posts here after they are posted, or I would add this on to the last one,, but, maybe this is okay because maybe people have read the last one and wouldn't see the addition.

I just found out that Rite Aid was using a manufacturer named Izax before they switched to Teva. A pharmacist at my local one is going to try to see if she can order from Izax or not. I'll let you know.

The moderators at this forum can set certain preferences unique to this vBulletin interface. I've been at several forums that use this interface that allow 48 hours of editing your post. They've chosen here to allow edits for only 10 minutes. That's why you don't see the edit button. I'm about to ask them to change that. They also only allow 2670 characters in Private Messages.. What's up with that?!! I can understand for main messages here limiting characters.. but in a PM???

NewdestinyX · #57 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Rainboww

I have to make a correction... the pharmacy is Osco and not Cosco that carries Apotex metformin.

I think I see an APO written on my Met pills themselves? Would that likely be the APOTEX brand.. But mine don't stink -- they have a slight 'ashey taste/smell' like penicillin in liquid state but nothing that stinks like several of you are saying.

Rainboww · #58 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009, 04:24 PM

I think so. My apotex ones say APO 500.

The Teva ones had something different on the pills, but I forgot wht now cuz I threw them out. They are also each in a slightly different shape,, all being white and longish, but the ends are slightly different.

NewdestinyX · #59 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Rainboww

I think so. My apotex ones say APO 500.

The Teva ones had something different on the pills, but I forgot wht now cuz I threw them out. They are also each in a slightly different shape,, all being white and longish, but the ends are slightly different.

And the APO doesn't smell to you, right? It doesn't to me.. Just tastes slightly weird -- but nothing foul.

kerryaki · #60 (**permalink**) 09-11-2009, 07:10 PM

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I just found out that Rite Aid was using a manufacturer named Izax before they switched to Teva. A pharmacist at my local one is going to try to see if she can order from Izax or not. I'll let you know.

Rainboww -

I've been getting my Metformin at Rite Aid for 2 years. I'm going to ask them if they've switched suppliers recently.
Thanks for all the great info!!
(This makes me wonder just what exactly their new drug manufacturer is putting in the Metformin that makes it smell so foul! P-U!

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