Weight-loss & Side Effects! Metformin for PCOS One Month Update!
I did lose some weight taking it for me i also did have some side effects hey guys welcome back to my channel so today i’m gonna be doing a one-month update on metformin for you guys i made a video about a month ago that i started metformin for pcos which i was diagnosed with pcos in august on the 23rd of august so i started peace after getting diagnosed with pcos i
Was placed on metformin because my foreman is known to help reduce the symptoms of pcos and also help almost reverse the disease so i was put on metformin and i went to give you guys a one-month update because i got a lot of questions on metformin i got a lot of questions in general on that video thank you so much you guys like i saw so many stories and like i was
Blown away like i couldn’t believe it i was overwhelmed i yeah i love you guys so much thank you so much for watching my video and listening to my story so anyways let’s get into this video i did lose some weight taking it for me i also did have some side effects i want to share all that with you guys in this video so stay tuned so within the first week of taking
Metformin i started to notice some changes in my body i want to say by day 3 of taking metformin i noticed that my appetite had decreased significantly i was all good craving like sweets and carbs the weight i used to crave them i noticed that i just really wasn’t even thinking about carbs or thinking about sweets or candy or anything like sweets so i noticed that
Within the first week of taking metformin and i was shocked because i could not believe it like i’ve lived my entire life like craving these foods and to not crave them it was just i was shocked okay i was like wait a minute this is what it’s like to be like normal i couldn’t believe it y’all so anyways that’s what happens the first week in terms of my appetite
Shift while taking metformin the other thing that i had experienced was some of the side effects so the first day i took met foreman i had the runs y’all like it was not like diarrhea like i’m mrs. tmi but i want to give you guys all the details ok it was just like extremely like you know like the loose tool that your butt is on fire like this is so nasty but
I don’t let you know that’s what happened okay so this happened to me in the past month this is happen to me i want to say three times and every one of those three times it was because i ate fast food i will definitely be staying far away from any fast food because it’s definitely not good for you one so you know i shouldn’t be in it anyway but it clearly does
Not work well with this medication i actually don’t even mind that because it’s gonna keep me in check and i will definitely think twice about driving through a drive-thru okay so that was my first like side effect from the medication i also did have some upset stomach during like the first week of taking them at for me after the first week i no longer had upset
Stomach so that kind of went away pretty quickly i did kind of have like some fullness feeling and not really bloating just kind of feeling like full i would say that kind of lasted instead of the second week by like the third and fourth week which is this week the fourth week i am no longer experiencing like upset stomach and that full feeling i haven’t tried fast
Food and it did not plan to try fast food because i am scared of what happened so i’m staying far away from that also it’s not good for me anyway i actually did have a headache the first week so i had a really really bad headache and i’m not even sure if it was from the med for me i did take a pain reliever and went away and never came back i’m not sure if it was
A coincidence that it happened during that first week or if it was from informing because that is one of the side effects so metformin is also supposed to help bring your period back i am on birth control i have an iud so i had to not get a period i haven’t gotten one in months from from being on birth control but i did have spotting last week so i do think it is
Helping kind of with that if i was not on birth control probably would have brought myself go back i think it would have because it did bring a little bit back even while on birth control so i do think it would help with that if i was on birth control so that’s good to know you know if you are looking for your periods to come back it definitely might be the choice
Of medication for you if you were thinking about it if your doctor was thinking about it for you so definitely keep that in mind i also did lose some weight while taking metformin oh my gosh i definitely did not show you guys how much i’m taking so i am taking a thousand milligrams a day i take two pills they’re 500 milligrams each i either take one a breakfast
And when i lunch or one at lunch and one at dinner i always take it with a meal because it can cause upset stomach if you take it on an empty stomach and i definitely do not want to find that out the hard way so i think it was a meal every time also one of the questions i got on my last video was if it would look at the counter and know it’s actually prescribed
It’s a prescribed medication for pcos and also for diabetes it’s known for diabetes i knew of it for diabetes before last month like i did not know it was for pc i did not know it was being used to treat pcos until last month so yeah so that’s talked about weight loss which was what y’all want to know i know just kidding anyways i did lose about 10 pounds i lost 9
Pounds in a month and i’ve been on metformin which is quite a lot of weight i did not go to the gym i started the gym today today was my first day at the gym if you follow my instagram you saw that already but anyways the first week i lost the most weight i want to say almost 3 to 4 pounds and then after that i kind of lost like a pound or two each week while taking
A medication i did change my diet because obviously i want to be healthier i know that i have pcos now and i need to be more conscious of what i’m putting into my body and you know making better health choices but the midd foreman has definitely helped me with my cravings so a lot of times or like him to pass i would go on diets i like change my eating habits i
Should say not really is i just changing your lifestyle i would change my lifestyle but i would just have the worst cravings ever you guys i cannot control myself if i had like the smallest piece of a birthday cake i could just like i would just i would not be able to control myself and beat on my foreman definitely has helped me control myself a lot better i’ve had
Small pieces of cake and i have not been from that small piece of cake so i definitely see a huge difference in that and that was like my breaking point every single time like having a piece of cake having a piece kandee haven’t anything sweet even juice like i could not tolerate that and you know be normal it was horribly also it has definitely helped me control
My cravings and control my like appetite in my like mental state i don’t even know what i’m saying right now i currently try to keep my diet free of simple carbs and focus on eating any complex carbs i also try to stick with a kind of paleo diet like i’m not completely paleo like whole thirty but i’m leaning more towards that side so i try to have more protein in
My diet and fats so that’s kind of where i’m trying to go with my diet because i heard that it was really good for pcos i also saw people talking about keto for pcos and vegan for pcos now hmm i am nowhere near ready to go vegan y’all like my palate is very limited i have the palate of three-year-olds and i’m i don’t even care like at this point like that’s just
Me this is not that many things that i enjoy eating and me going vegan will limit my options so much that i’m just not sure if i’m ready for that move i actually did try a keto diet about a year ago and i got a key to a rash from that so i am staying far away from quito it’s just it’s not for me basically when i read about it your body goes into ketosis and you
Sweat out ketones so i guess like from me working out and sweating out the ketones and that stain on my skin i end up getting rashes from it so i am no longer participating in anything keto and just be careful if you are doing it beware keep your skin nice and sweat free so yeah that’s that the whole thirty and paleo has always worked for me when i did it in the
Past so i’m really comfortable going into that kind of lifestyle and i think it’s the best thing for me at this point that pretty much sums up my first muslim informant i have highlighted the biggest changes that i noticed one thing i did actually notice was my sleep schedule kind of is different i feel like i have better sleep and i don’t know what this has to
Do with informing but i noticed that i’ve had better sleep like i don’t really get up to tonight i have like a nice full night of sleep like even if it’s for hours like i don’t get up i don’t like i feel like i sleep like a knock out you know like i used to have really bad insomnia and for some reason i feel like it has been more controlled maybe i don’t know it’s
Just been since i started medication but i also started b12 shots at the same time so maybe that has to do with the b12 i don’t know y’all but i had the b12 level of nine-year-old corn to my doctor so he put me on b12 for i had to get four shots with b12 in four consecutive monday’s and i also have been taking a b12 pill because my levels were so low alright guys
So those are all my updates on my first month of being on my foreman for pcos i will sort of update sometime later on and let you guys know how my weight loss is going in my diet and that type of thing if you have any questions that you wouldn’t ask me definitely comment down below in the comment section also if you have been on metformin for pcos let me know how
It’s going for you because i did see a couple people say they have been on it before so let me know how it’s going for you and i think that’s pretty much it for the video love you guys and i’ll see you guys in my next video don’t forget to subscribe to my channel and give me a thumbs up and share this video with a friend bye
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Weight-loss & Side Effects! Metformin for PCOS One Month Update! women's health By Jasmine Airdelle
