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10/06/09 11:53 AM

"diag. 2 wks ago, 369bs, type 2. treated glyburide/metformin combo. Now hypo and wondering what to decrease. On 20mg Gly/2000mg metformin. Advice?"
Asked By: sheefish2  
Category: Oral Medications

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My wife is the patient and I am the chef/knowledge seeker. Being type A people we immediately changed our diets and exercise regimens to combat 369 fasting blood glucose and 711 triglicerides. Once 20mg Glyburide/2000mg Metformin prescribed bs now in hypoglycemic range.If no diet change could we reduce meds by quarter or half?

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10/08/09 06:52 PM

Hello Sheefish2
I think that you and your wife are in denial or have not yet accepted this serious diagnosis.With your wife at 369 Lbs and you are the chef, well what does that say about the meals you are preparing? I do not know what your wife's fasting glucose levels are now. I also do not know what her exercise is? All I know is that these are critically hiigh lab values that you have shared with us. A trigliceride of 711mg/dl is at extremely high risk for cardiovascular accident. Do not change any medications without going to your provider and showing the doctor your fasting blood sugars. Your doctor may adjust medications if it is warranted, but your wife and you are not qualified to make that change without discussing it with a doctor unless one of you is a doctor yourselves. Since you are asking an on-line expert, I already know you are not doctors.

Let's focus on the changes you have made that are positive lifestyle changes. You are the chef. Your challenge is to find tasty satifiying meals that are also heart healthy and have low glycemic indexes. I would love to see your input 1 year from now to show it as a success story!. You could motivate so many people making healthy adjustments to lower glucose levels reduce lipid levels and become a couple dedicated to improving their health together!.

Please get recipes on dLife and share your road to heath on dLife blogs. I will be hoping that by next year this time, you and your wife will be at peek health with normal lab values, good weight to report and can share outstanding recipes with all of us!l

Answered By: Rita Juray
Accreditations: RN, MLT-ASCP, CCM, CDE
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10/14/09 12:19 PM

Hi everyone. My wife was 369 Blood Sugar, not LBS. Anyway we are down to 10mg Glyburide and 500mg metformin. We are still bumping along the low range of normal and sometimes Hypo. We're meeting with the endocrinologist this afternoon for more tweaking. My wife doesn't understand having to eat in order to make the medicine work properly. We would love to do this with just diet and exercise. We'll see what he says. My wife is following the dietician's plan so well that I have to keep apple juice boxes around for when she gets low. This is one crazy disease.
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