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My wife's fertility doc has prescribed her metformin hcl 500mg. does this meds increase her chances of getting diabetes in future? she also has pcos.

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Dr. Girish Kalva answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

PCOS: Metformin is given for treatment of diabetes and does not increase her chance of getting diabetes.PCOS is treated often with first line drug which is metformin.

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Answered 6/2/2019

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