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Is Metaformin And Diamicron Intake Safe To Bring Down Blood Sugar Level?
16 units of slow-acting insulin are not controlling my father's blood sugar. He was recently taken off of metaformin and diamicron due to elevated creatinine levels. These levels have normalized. Any harm in taking a single dose of the metaformin and diamicron to bring his fasting sugars down in addition to the nighttime dose of the slow-acting insulin?
Wed, 2 Apr 2014
dear sir I understand your concern.in the presence of normal creatinine values means that kidney function is good.in normal kidney function metformin and Diamicron are very safe drugs.if duration of diabetes is less than 5 yrs this combination will a very good combination.in long term diabetes there will be failure of drugs like Diamicron otherwise they r best.....regards
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