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I have been on metformin for a day, and i'm vomitting severely?
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Stop the: metformin until your symptoms resolve and consider retrying it at a lower dose, such as 500 mg/day only and slowly increasing as tolerated at weekly intervals, or use a product such as glumetza, which has a much lower incidence of adverse events, but is more expensive.
Answered 10/5/2014
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