I am really fortunate that my family doctor is willing to help with things like letting me try metformin and will cooperate with my pdoc if needed. Back when I started seeing him i was coming off a family dr who prescribed me a med contraindicated with another of my meds, 3 times in a few weeks. I reported him to the medical board and was really pro-active with this doctor. I told him that I needed him to be willing to deal with my pdoc and to know that she had the final say because of interactions and that I needed him to be willing to be overly cautious, running any med he gave me through an interaction checker. He was newly out of residency and I was the first patient he'd had long term exposure to with severe mental illness so he was very willing to work with me. A long time has passed now (14-15 years?) and he still follows this. Metformin wasn't something I discussed with my pdoc much if at all but even if she'd prescribed it he'd be fine. I've been on the edge of needing a statin and he has been cautious but I'm sure if my pdoc was concerned at all he'd start one.

It's hard navigating too many doctors.

I absolutely think metformin is worth a try. It's been really good for me.