Metformin and skipping breakfast?

[AMY]

I have tried to find infos online but no success. Anybody out there with the same problem? I don't know if I should skip breakfast and take the Metformin or take it at noon with meal. I just ate one cookie and took it this morning which stopped my trembling and shaking hands. Is that good or bad for pink. Thank you!

[Tiggerian]

Don't ever take metformin if you haven't eaten! It's a big, big no-no.

If you do take your metformin, but skip the breakfast, then make sure you eat a snack with some sugar in it - if not your blood sugar can crash (I did it.. it really wasn't pretty!)

How many tablets do you take a day?

[AMY]

Hi, thanks so much for answering. I take 850 morning and evening. I took one last morning with a rice cracker. Today I will try to take it without food. Got a very bad diarhia last night and was wondering if it was because I ate less then 1000 cal. I am still not really sure about the food.

[AMY]

My bloodsugar is really bad when I wake up. So when I get my self ready I already start trembling. WOndering if thats the IR, the metformin or normal???

[Tiggerian]

I've never had that, but I take 500mg three times a day. Might be because your blood sugar is low - I can get like that if my blood sugar is low, but I've never tried it in the morning. I take slow-release metformin tho as I reacted very badly to the normal ones, I dont know if that makes a difference.

[AMY]

thank you, Will see what I do. I have to ask my doctor for slow releasing metformin.

[atomic sagebrush]

only use met with meals

[atomic sagebrush]

My bloodsugar is really bad when I wake up. So when I get my self ready I already start trembling. WOndering if thats the IR, the metformin or normal???

probably the metformin.

if it's that bad, you prob. should not skip breakfast - just go ahead and eat something