If you have a good and flexible doctor he/she will prescribe it "off label" . Once I was prescribed medication "off label" by a doctor because I brought with me research papers that showed those meds. help in my particular case (in study done in Canada) . I had to change 5 doctors and dentists until I found fantastic oral pathologist who was open to suggestions since she really wanted to help and medication DID help 100 %. Also, Metformin can be ordered online 😉 via "telemedicine" *wink wink, since it is such benign and extremely cheep medication. Two or 3 of us here tried to tell you couple of times that it is not strictly diabetes medication and does not effect glucose levels directly. On the other hand it is completely understandable if you do not feel comfortable trying it without doctor's approval. I for a fact know that there are doctors who like to think out of the box and prescribe medications that are promising in some papers or show better results. My friend who has thyroid problems was prescribed synthetic hormone and it was not helping very much. She read that natural hormone got from pigs helps better in such cases. Actually, initial discovery of hypothyroidism treatment was conducted with natural hormones from pigs but guess what - soon pharma took over with synthetic hormone production since that way they charge more. Anyhow - she finally found a doctor who prescribed her pig hormone granules which are made in compounding pharmacy and she is now like new person !

Metformin absolutely is not cure all, nothing is ;), not even chemo nor radiation or any other treatment.