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Diabetes, Type 2 - I have cut out all breads, flours, sugar, bad starches (corn,potatoes, rices?
... etc). Been doing a low carb diet but still seeing a high fasting number in the morning of 170 or so. I take 1000 mg of metformin at night with dinner. I do drink lots of crystal light can that be the cause of my raised blood sure?
Can you take lipozene with metformin for type 2 diabetes?
With type 2 diabetes.
Can 500mg of Metformin can be converted in to insulin units? as if compared to Lantus or Apidra?
Example: Metformin 500mg = ___Units of long acting(Lantus) or short acting insulin(Apidra).(Injection Units)
After soaking a metformin tablet in water for 12 hrs in a glass why is it still whole ? I cut it?
in half and the medicine is still in there. whoever said, "your still getting your medicine even if you are pooping the tablet is wrong
Metformin - What of I took a double dose by accident?
Could not remember if i took my metformin. So i took another. Has not happened yet. Wanted to if it would hurt me. It's been an hour and a half since i ate.
I took a metformin 1000mg by accident. Am not diabetic will it hurt me?
Took wrong med. Last night n got up little while ago n threw up. Checked meds. N figured out I took wrong one. Will it hurt me?
Chronic cough lisinopril and atorvastatin?
In June my doctor prescribed metformin (750mg), atorvastatin (10mg) and lisinopril (2.5mg). It is now October and I have developed a debilitating chronic cough. Literature I've read points to both lisinopril and atorvastatin as causes. Are there alternatives I can take to eliminate the cough?
Metformin - Tingling/burning/pins and needles type feeling in hands, legs and feet?
I have just started taking metformin at 500mg. For the past 3 days I have been experiencing tingling/burning sensation in my feet, hands but mostly my legs (one more so than the other). Is this a side affect of metformin? Or starting a new medication in general? Has anyone experienced this? I dont... read more
Does caffeine interact with the metformin? My husband is taking metformin, and his sugar goes sky?
... high after coffee, and he is a coffee freak
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