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Glucophage User Reviews & Ratings (Page 2)

Glucophage has an average rating of 6.7 out of 10 from a total of 28 reviews on Drugs.com. 62% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 22% reported a negative experience.

Reviews for Glucophage

  • sandyjz
  • April 7, 2016

For Diabetes, Type 2 "diarrhea so bad I lost control at work 3 times and had to go home. never again I don't care if I die from diabetes."

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  • Anonymous
  • Taken for 5 to 10 years
  • March 19, 2014

For Insulin Resistance Syndrome "Side effects had a tremendous role in decreasing quality of life."

3 / 10
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  • Cothrom
  • Taken for 1 to 2 years
  • November 6, 2015

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Seems diarrhea is main culprit with this med. Been taking it 20 months so far, as far as control of diabetes does not seem to have much affect on blood sugar"

7 / 10
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Frequently asked questions

  • Anonymous
  • October 12, 2009

For Diabetes, Type 2 "I was on this medication for about a year and I had horrible side effects. "

2 / 10
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  • Anonymous
  • March 20, 2012

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Made me very sick, headache, constant diarrhea, very bad head and chest cold, lower right leg started to swell."

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  • Philip...
  • Taken for 1 to 6 months
  • March 17, 2017

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Mildly effective with controlling blood glucose. Side effect of extreme fecal incontinence was unacceptable."

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  • Anonymous
  • August 12, 2009

For Diabetes, Type 2 "My doctor recommend glucophage 500mg twice a day, with breakfast and dinner. With breakfast also take 5mg Glocotrol. It made my sugar level /- 100 while previously was as high as 400. "

8 / 10
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  • Anonymous
  • March 23, 2010

For Diabetes, Type 2 "I took this medicine for a very short while. It began with serious nausea followed by vomiting a couple of weeks later. I could not take this medicine."

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  • david...
  • June 15, 2008

For Polycystic Ovary Syndrome "Have been suffering for 18 years before someone decided to treat me. Glucophage plus a birth control has made life better."

8 / 10
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  • dunya
  • August 17, 2010

For Female Infertility "By personal experience 3 of 5 of my friends get successful results when used Glucophage."

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  • black...
  • May 7, 2009

For Polycystic Ovary Syndrome "It works great, but the downfall of Metformin is it causes you to have diarrhea but it controls my insulin resistance."

6 / 10
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  • Anonymous
  • March 5, 2011

For Diabetes, Type 2 "After a few weeks of taking this my blood sugars came right down and have stayed low."

8 / 10
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  • Cherry...
  • August 23, 2017

For Diabetes, Type 2 "Excellent control but caused me lactic acidosis"

10 / 10
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  • Magret...
  • October 19, 2016

For Diabetes, Type 2 "I have stoped taking glucophage 3 mounths ago and i have gained 3kg please help"

8 / 10
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