Metformin and pregnancy

[Aranah]

Thankyou so much, all your replies really helped me to make an informed choice before I saw the doctor. There is so much conflicting advise about metformin and the biggy is that it's still rated a category C drug in pregnancy. My original GP had only advised me to stay off it after he rang a gynae for advise. Before my case, he'd had nothing to do with PCOS or metformin to treat it, so that really helped because he was willing to get more information on it which happened to be the latest info.

The other GP i saw told me to stop and wouldnt give me another script for it. I went back to the other GP because I had the migraine from hell, which I NEVER get when I am pregnant, I only get them the week of my period and I was very worried that this had meant ceasing metformin had caused a progesterone drop. I had this migraine from last Sunday till Saturday, it was a nightmare because I could only take panadeine forte and that didn't even touch the pain.

Anyway, due to me being off metformin since Sunday, the doctor who I saw on Friday said there was no point in starting it again now because of the side effects and he was concerned about that in pregnancy (I get the sideeffects really bad from it). I agree with that, i can't imagine going through all that again while pregnant.

I'm getting a scan tomorrow and I'm thinking that the larger bleed wasn't anything to do with Metformin either, it was just timing.

I'm just hoping to see a little HB and a moving little bubba

[shellshell]

Naomi,

How did the can go yesterday?

Hope all is well.