I was taken off of Metformin in September, Over this past 10 months i have experienced sweating, weight gain, and incrwase in body hair. I took metformin for 4 years until they took me off, and have been taking yaz for 3 years. Are my symptoms from not taking metformin?
Hello, the answer is probably no, but I'll tell you more in the next paragraph. Yam may rarely cause such symptoms though. You should discuss this issue with your doctor and perhaps also with an endocrinologist. Sweating and weight gain are general symptoms occurring in a multitude of disorders, but an increase in body hair is almost always due to either a side effect of a medication or a hormonal disorder. Let me get back to metformin now. I suppose you're female - because you're worried about the hair - although you haven't mentioned your sex. Women with PCs (polycystic ovary syn Chat Doctor.