Have any of you heard about or know of anyone using glucophage for weight loss? I have a friend at work that told me last night that her doc put her on glucophage to help her lose weight, and she has a friend on it that lost 30 pounds in 2 months so far.

I know that it's used for PCOS, and fertility as well as blood glucose control, but this is the first I've heard of it for weight loss... verrrrrry interesting...

I need something now that I'm bandless, so this is has peaked my curiosity.

HI Pam! Two years ago I was diagnosed with PCOS and I took glucophage to become pregnant with my second child. A nice side effect of glucophage was weight loss. I oftened wondered why it is not marketed as such. Long term use of glucophage does require liver and kidney monitoring. Good Luck. Hope this helps.

Donna

I am on both glucophage and byetta and have GAINED about 50 pounds since I started on them. I have type 2 diabetes and my doc had high hopes that these would help with weight loss. They did not but they did help with blood sugar control. My last A1C was 6.6 which was pretty good.

i was glocu... 500 mg 3 time a day i gained alot of my wieght wen i started the diabetes meds even with the insulin. but with the band i use alot less meds so in guess its easier to loss wieght on less meds.