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Hi everyone. Hope all is well!
I was prescribed Metformin two weeks ago. 500mg once a day at breakfast increasing to 2 x 500mg tomorrow.
My question is the doctor said to take the second tablet at dinner time. It suddenly struck me yesterday, being a northerner dinner to me is middle of the day, but in other parts of the country it's evening meal.
I did ring my surgery but all I got was a text back saying to be taken at dinner time !!!!!!!!
Could anyone advise me 🙄
 
Snoopyj said:
Hi everyone. Hope all is well!
I was prescribed Metformin two weeks ago. 500mg once a day at breakfast increasing to 2 x 500mg tomorrow.
My question is the doctor said to take the second tablet at dinner time. It suddenly struck me yesterday, being a northerner dinner to me is middle of the day, but in other parts of the country it's evening meal.
I did ring my surgery but all I got was a text back saying to be taken at dinner time !!!!!!!!
Could anyone advise me 🙄
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I too am a northerner and call lunch dinner and dinner tea! Is your GP a northerner? Joking aside. I was always told Metformin to be taken with your largest meal, which for most of us is dinner/ tea/ evening meal. Hope that helps.
 
eggyg said:
I too am a northerner and call lunch dinner and dinner tea! Is your GP a northerner? Joking aside. I was always told Metformin to be taken with your largest meal, which for most of us is dinner/ tea/ evening meal. Hope that helps.
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Awh thanks eggyg. It certainly helps.
 
My prescriptions say "to be taken with breakfast and evening meal" for Metformin. Although oddly the Gliclazide prescription is simply "to be taken twice a day with food."

Anyway, if you want to be even more certain you are doing the right thing, the official diagnosing advice used by the N.H.S. says "500 mg twice daily for at least 1 week, dose to be taken with breakfast and evening meal."

Metformin hydrochloride | Drugs | BNF content published by NICE

View metformin hydrochloride information, including dose, uses, side-effects, renal impairment, pregnancy, breast feeding, contra-indications and monitoring requirements.
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A bit of trivia, the Swedish word for midday is "middag." But "middag" is also the name for the meal eaten in the evening.

It originates before industrialization, when people tended to live and work in the same place and so would eat the main meal in the middle of the day. Just as with the word "dinner" in most of the English speaking world, the name continued to be used for the main meal of the day as it switched to being eaten in the evening after returning from work.

I suppose that clash of uses is as normal to them as it is for us to have tea being both the name of a meal and a drink.
 
Becka said:
My prescriptions say "to be taken with breakfast and evening meal" for Metformin. Although oddly the Gliclazide prescription is simply "to be taken twice a day with food."

Anyway, if you want to be even more certain you are doing the right thing, the official diagnosing advice used by the N.H.S. says "500 mg twice daily for at least 1 week, dose to be taken with breakfast and evening meal."

Metformin hydrochloride | Drugs | BNF content published by NICE

View metformin hydrochloride information, including dose, uses, side-effects, renal impairment, pregnancy, breast feeding, contra-indications and monitoring requirements.
bnf.nice.org.uk bnf.nice.org.uk

A bit of trivia, the Swedish word for midday is "middag." But "middag" is also the name for the meal eaten in the evening.

It originates before industrialization, when people tended to live and work in the same place and so would eat the main meal in the middle of the day. Just as with the word "dinner" in most of the English speaking world, the name continued to be used for the main meal of the day as it switched to being eaten in the evening after returning from work.

I suppose that clash of uses is as normal to them as it is for us to have tea being both the name of a meal and a drink.
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Thank you so much Becka. Also for the bit of trivia, so interesting the English language.
 
They have probably suggested each tablet to be taken separately to begin with as it can upset your stomach when you first start taking them. Always have it after or during a substantial meal. I take 2 a day but have them after my evening meal which is the largest. If I have my main meal at lunch time then I would have them then.
 
SueEK said:
They have probably suggested each tablet to be taken separately to begin with as it can upset your stomach when you first start taking them. Always have it after or during a substantial meal. I take 2 a day but have them after my evening meal which is the largest. If I have my main meal at lunch time then I would have them then.
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Thank you SueEK.
 
Im a southerner and dinner time has always been mid-day and evening meal is tea time. 🙂
 
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