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Metformin after BFP?

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Ok, this is for the ones that are on the metformin, after you get your BFP do you keep taking it through the whole pregnancy?? Not that I have had a BFP but the metformin and I aren't getting along right now and if I do get my BFP in 2 weeks, I'd like to know if there is alittle light at the end of the tunnel :)

Jen
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I don't know for sure, haven't asked my doctor, but as far as I have read it is pretty safe to take during pregnancy, but I don't know for sure. Also from what I've heard, and I might be wrong, aren't those of us with PCOS at increased risk for gestational diabetes. For me, I know I already have diabetes, so I assume I will have to keep taking it.
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Thanks ladies, I guess i'll ask my RE if I ever get that BFP... Which I am starting to think wont be this month. Possitive thinking not working...
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