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Just wanted to know if medication could be reduced if levels improved
At present
1 gliclazide in morning
1 metformin 3 times daily

Is this medication on a par with most type 2 diabetics


John B
 
As we always say everyone is different. But your medication seems pretty typical, you aren't on maximum doses of those medications. And yes some people do come off medications if they improve their control with diet and exercise.
 
Metformin 500mg and gliclazide 80mg at breakfast and lunch
Metformin 500mg and gliclazide 160mg at dinner
Simvastatin 40mg at night

Gliclazide split over breakfast and lunch as was getting too many hypos in the morning
 
im currently on 2 500mg slow release metformin a day
 
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I' am on 1 metaformin 500mg a day
 
I'm on 2 500mg Metformin a day, One with breakfast and the other with evening meal.
 
same as you tez, do you find them easy to swallow?
 
One gliclizade and one telmisartin morning
two metfromin later in the day

Also currently on course of antibitics for skin infection
 
I take 2 metformin twice a day, plus insulin injections throughout the day.
 
I'm on 4 metformin throughout the day, 1 adalat 30LA & insulatard last thing at night(and 1 super high dose of folic acid -wishful thinking really but...)
 
I take 4 x 500mg Slow Release Glucophage (Metformin) per day - all in the morning
4 x 80mg gliclazide per day (2 in morning and 2 at night)
Presently 24 units of lantus which I inject in the morning - started injecting mid April on 8 units and now up to 24.
I also take 1 x 75mg aspirin per day. 1 x 40mg simvastatin at night. 1 x 1.25 ramiprill at night.

I also rattle very well taking all these tablets.

My readings are still high!!!! Increasing the lantus gradually by 2 units every 3 or 4 days at the moment. Does anyone know what the maximum number of lantus units you can inject please??
 
Andy said:
...My readings are still high!!!! Increasing the lantus gradually by 2 units every 3 or 4 days at the moment. Does anyone know what the maximum number of lantus units you can inject please??
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Hi Andy, not sure if there is a maximum dose. I started on 20 units lantus, but I have read of people on 60 units and more. If neccesary, the doses can be split so that you're not injecting a whole load at once, but I think there's a fair way that you could go yet. I guess the maximum dose is really the dose that keeps your levels in range! Hopefully, though, you'll achieve that soon.🙂
 
Phew thanks Northerner.

That puts my mind at ease a little. I have a friend who injects 28 units of lantus per day but doesn't take the gliclazide with it.

With that advice I know that I can keep going for a while anyway and hopefully my readings will start to fall. They were only 11.4 this morning so coming down a little lol.
 
I am on 4x 500mg metformin and 4x 80mg gliclazide a day. Average reading about 7.5 but i still have to eat less carbs than i would like which leaves me hungry, trying to get on insulin at mo if they will let me.
 
It sounds as if going on to Insulin is not that bad a thing. My medication is being messed about all over the place at the moment, and I'm fed up with it all.

I was diagnosed in Nov 08 and started with 1 x 500mg Metformin a day. This was increased gradually to 4 a day by March 09, due to not being effective enough. Since I've been on 2 g a day I have suffered almost constant diarrhoea. The doc said it would settle down. It has not. Also the problem has stopped me from getting my walking exercise due to too many embarrassing events away from home. So my BS levels are getting worse, and now my cholesterol levels are getting worse too!! I can't win cos The foods that are good for the cholesterol send my BS sky high, and the protein foods that keep the BS down are no good for the cholesterol. I hate salad, and fruit masses up my stomach acids, so there's not much I can eat without causing trouble somewhere!!!

When I last saw the hospital specialist they decided that sugar levels were still unsatisfactory and recommended going on to 3 x 850mg a day. My doctor was not happy to do this while I still had the diarrhoea trouble, so have carried on at 4 x 500mg a day, but it's not working. I am always about 8 - 9 first thing in the morning, even when I have fasted for a blood test! And usually about 10 - 11 two hours after a meal. The lowest reading I have ever had was 6, never managed to get below that, even with missing a meal!

Anyway, another doctor has now decided that I MUST go onto the 3 x 850mg a day, and has also prescribed Immodium EVERY DAY for the foreseeable future to stop the inevitable worsening diarrhoea problem!!!

I was already depressed before I was diagnosed diabetic, and all this has made me so much worse! The constant nagging by the medics to eat correctly (like, WHAT do you suggest?) is pushing me to think "S*d it! Whatever I eat it will be wrong so i might as well eat cakes and sweets!" Living sure isn't much fun these days so, if I die it's no big deal any more. I am not saying I am suicidal, just that I don't much care any more. I can't get excited about a life lived on vegetables (not without cheese anyway!).

I am just totally fed up with the whole business.
 
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