I've just started on metformin and I'm having my wisdom tooth removed at the beginning of January. Will I have to be extra careful with what I eat over Christmas to get my sugar levels as good as possible so that my mouth will heal ok as I know that the healing process can take longer in diabetics and there can be complications? Or can I have a few treats as the metformin helps to lower the sugar levels? I was diagnosed with diabetes a few years ago and tried to get my levels down through diet but haven't succeeded. I feel I don't get any guidance from my surgery, only the annual check and there's so much information on the internet, I don't know where to turn. Finding it really hard to know what to eat everyday.
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Metformin and wisdom tooth extraction
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Pumper_Sue
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Hello and welcome to the forum,
a few treats are allowed so no worries in that dept. Can you do some extra exercise to help with your blood sugar control? As you already know the better your numbers the better the healing process and lack of infection with any wound.
Bottom line is you need to be carb aware so have a look around for things that are lower in carbs but just as yummy. Good luck with the extraction.
a few treats are allowed so no worries in that dept. Can you do some extra exercise to help with your blood sugar control? As you already know the better your numbers the better the healing process and lack of infection with any wound.
Bottom line is you need to be carb aware so have a look around for things that are lower in carbs but just as yummy. Good luck with the extraction.
Drummer
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Please do not rely on or expect Metformin to reduce the glucose in your blood if it comes from food - it doesn't work like that.
However - if you can keep your blood glucose levels down you should have no problems with healing - as long as there isn't something else going on I have found that such things as mending of small cuts, the vanishing away of bruises - even the rate at which my nails grow, are all better in the last few years.
I do eat a little extra at Christmas, I have to admit - but only a little, I have Yorkshire puddings, but make them with cream and water rather than milk, use bread flour and more eggs, to limit the effects.I simply can't justify eating what I know will be bad for me - I was just going to write even without dentistry on the horizon, but I do have an appointment at the dentist myself - but for me that is nothing to worry about, as these days when I test my blood glucose it is in the normal range. It really does change everything, to have normal numbers.
However - if you can keep your blood glucose levels down you should have no problems with healing - as long as there isn't something else going on I have found that such things as mending of small cuts, the vanishing away of bruises - even the rate at which my nails grow, are all better in the last few years.
I do eat a little extra at Christmas, I have to admit - but only a little, I have Yorkshire puddings, but make them with cream and water rather than milk, use bread flour and more eggs, to limit the effects.I simply can't justify eating what I know will be bad for me - I was just going to write even without dentistry on the horizon, but I do have an appointment at the dentist myself - but for me that is nothing to worry about, as these days when I test my blood glucose it is in the normal range. It really does change everything, to have normal numbers.
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