 Hello everybody, this is Dr. Ahmed Ergen, endocrinologist from SugarMDS.com. Today we are going to talk about the metformin recall. So obviously metformin was recalled, I've been getting calls and the patient questions about metformin recall. Now we're going to talk about this today. So what is happening right now is that the FDA, thanks to FDA, Food and Drug Administration, they're on top of all these medications which I am glad, and they found that five of the metformin companies. Again, remember metformin is not created by one company. It's a genetic drug, it's extremely cheap. There are a bunch of companies, mostly in India or outside the US, they make these metformin and just ship it to US. Of course, FDA still regulates that. And since they found a compound called MDMA, they decided that this product may be harmful to patients who are taking extended-release metformin. Again, that may apply to regular metformin. It is about extended-release metformin. So there is some data about this MDMA causing cancer in humans. So as a result, I think at some point the questions were raised as metformin caused cancer. Now, metformin itself does not cause cancer. If there is a contamination in the process of making the drug that may cause cancer now, that's why we have FDA. That organization is on top of the drug manufacturers all the time. So if there is a problem on that bed, that doesn't mean that if you're a metformin, for example, for like 10 years, doesn't mean that you had this problem, they just figured it out. Now, sometimes when they make this batch of metformin, these production lines, FDA keeps checking on them regularly. So if they detect something, they immediately tell the company is to withdraw their drugs, to recalde their drugs, so that the patients are safe. So if you are concerned that the metformin is going to harm you or is going to cause cancer, please don't. It's okay. What you have to do is call your pharmacist and make sure that metformin brand that is sold to you by the pharmacy is not produced by a company that is recalling the metformin. There are still a lot of metformin companies that their drugs are not recalled, just because they are just making regular metformin without that contaminant. So you just have to be alert, be calm, call your pharmacist, hey, is my metformin okay? Has it been recalled, et cetera? If they say so, then you have to call your doctor to get a different prescription of metformin. But I would not advise stopping the metformin called turkey because then your blood sugars will probably spike and then if you're going to stop metformin, at least you have to replace it with something else. And there's a discussion between you and your doctor. I hope that information is helpful. We'll see you in the next video. Please remember to subscribe, give a thumbs up, and then make sure you turn the notification bell and check on our channel frequently.