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Reason For High Blood Sugar Levels In The Morning?
i am diagnosed diabetes in 2008 at the age of 28 years and found my fasting level 400 and i took insulin for month and its came down to 140 then started medicine 500 mg three tablets a day. i used tablets for two months and stopped. since last 4 years i am not using any medicine and my levels always 180 in fasting and evening 126 at 6 pm . i am not understanding why my levels high in morning and low in evening. recently i started again to use medicine but no changes found in the levels please advise me for better to take medicine or not thankyou
Fri, 21 Mar 2014
Dear sir
As per your query your current medicines you are taking
1. metformin 500 mg three times a day
Fasting sugars are high, it might be due to two reasons
1. Increased hepatic glucose output.
2. decreased insulin secretion.
Since metformin is a insulin sensitizers, it wont improve the insulin secretion .
To decrease fasting sugars, add bed time basal insulin or add a secretogogue drugs like glimeperide or glibenclamide at night times.
Thanks.
As per your query your current medicines you are taking
1. metformin 500 mg three times a day
Fasting sugars are high, it might be due to two reasons
1. Increased hepatic glucose output.
2. decreased insulin secretion.
Since metformin is a insulin sensitizers, it wont improve the insulin secretion .
To decrease fasting sugars, add bed time basal insulin or add a secretogogue drugs like glimeperide or glibenclamide at night times.
Thanks.
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