Can anyone please add me to a PCOS WhatsApp group to educate me on my food intake please... I'm 30yr lady with it, and I think I need help on a PCOS Nigeria diet plan and all and someone to push and encourage me more cause I'm depress at the moment...my number 08026778561.. I'm new on here...quote author=Fvine post=43831600]
Honestly I think you should follow your Dr's advice. If he has prescribed it, then take according to prescription and if he hasn't, prompt him and tell him you learnt about the drug Metformin for PCOS and want to know if he can prescribe for you as you believe it will help you, he just might give you the prescription.

I was having a discussion with @ Sugah and we both were convinced that I should be on Metformin & should just go buy it and start at the lowest dose. I myself was convinced too and felt I should be on twice the lowest dose. So I just thought I should run it by my Dr & not self medicate. I had told @ Sugah that whether or not its prescribed, that I'll try it out & see but will for good measures talk to my Dr 1st. Deep down I was scared of self medicating on Metformin & told @ Sugah so. Eventually, I sent my Dr an SMS telling him that I learnt about Metformin & bla bla bla and he responded with a prescription (same as I had in mind) and told me that it's already listed in my file as part of my protocol at my last appointment in Feb.

Apparently he was waiting to give me the drugs at my next appointment in April because at my last appointment I was complaining so much that I had too many drugs to take for post surgery recovery so he considered and decided to let me finish my post surgery drugs, have a break & rest before we continue. So to cut the long story short, I've got on the Metformin now since am done with post surgery drug and feel like I should get on with things again.

Note that in 'advanced countries', Metformin is a prescription drug and not available over the counter. It's just fortunate or unfortunate that it's over the counter here in Nigeria but that still doesn't mean that we should self medicate on it.[/quote]