PCOS and metformin help

[cas]

I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was 19. I'm 20 now and I've been slowly making my way from 500mg of metformin (twice a day) to 1000mg (twice a day). Tomorrow I officially start taking 1000mg in the morning and 1000mg at night. When I started the 500mg almost a year ago, I immediately dropped 10 pounds while doing nothing but going out to eat with my boyfriend and his friends. I was wondering if starting the 1000mg will help me drop more? I also read somewhere that anything under 1000mg will do nothing for pcos patients (but we start off small to build a tolerance to all the side effects.) So I was just wondering if any other women took metformin and once they started the real high dose.. if they lost more weight? Also wondering if the higher dose of metformin helped some women conceive? I am about 40 pounds overweight (currently dieting, already lost some) and I'll be TTC in about 3 months (cause I want to lose more first). Thanks!

[ladypam]

Metformin has helped a lot of women with PCOS conceive. It is also a good for losing weight because it can make you lose your appetite. However, the weight loss may also be attributed to the fact that you are watching what you eat. Taking a higher dosage will definitely not let you lose more weight than what is normal. It will just produce the same side effects as before.

Hope this helps.