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Metformin
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Lucyr
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Metformin takes weeks to fully build up in your system and only has a small impact on blood sugars. Missing metformin for a few days isnt going to cause dangerously high blood sugars, they wouldn’t advise you to miss it if it was dangerous to do so.
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Welcome to the forum @Pamamac
Hope the angiogram goes well, and provides useful information to guide your treatment.
As @Lucyr says, the way Metformin works is to build up gradually to soak into your system, the effect of missing a few doses should be offset by the trailing doses you have taken previously.
If you are concerned, it might be worth considering limiting your total carbohydrate intake a little more (as well as ‘of which sugars’) on the days where you are missing doses and for a few days afterwards?
Hope the angiogram goes well, and provides useful information to guide your treatment.
As @Lucyr says, the way Metformin works is to build up gradually to soak into your system, the effect of missing a few doses should be offset by the trailing doses you have taken previously.
If you are concerned, it might be worth considering limiting your total carbohydrate intake a little more (as well as ‘of which sugars’) on the days where you are missing doses and for a few days afterwards?
Hi , Issues with Metformin when I started the second pill of the day.( Won't go into detail )
Contacted my Doctor explaining what the problem is and he I instructed me to revert to 1 pill per day for 30 days and see how it goes.
Cannot be put onto the Slow release Metformin as presently I am out of the country.
Contacted my Doctor explaining what the problem is and he I instructed me to revert to 1 pill per day for 30 days and see how it goes.
Cannot be put onto the Slow release Metformin as presently I am out of the country.
harbottle
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I quite often forget to take my 500mg of Metformin, and don't see any difference when I do finger prick tests.
It's got a half life in blood of around 12 hours, so after twelve hour half the dose has gone (Not *all* the tablet ends up in your bloodstream, around 60% or so, I believe.)
So I don't think missing tablets for a couple of days will cause much of an issue.
It's got a half life in blood of around 12 hours, so after twelve hour half the dose has gone (Not *all* the tablet ends up in your bloodstream, around 60% or so, I believe.)
So I don't think missing tablets for a couple of days will cause much of an issue.
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