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Asked for female, 74 years old from Chennai
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Endocrinologist•Delhi
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Your fasting blood sugar is still not controlled.I think your doctor has advised you to take acarbose before dinner( to bring down fasting sugar ) in addition to earlier medicines.Please consult him again to clarify.
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Endocrinologist•Delhi
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Your answer is evident from your diet described. You have to avoid so much of dry fruits and resins, 2 boiled eggs daily. Please consult a dietician and rely more on high fibre ,low calory diet. Sugar,jagary, honey,sweets sweet fruits (like mangoe, banana,cheeku, dates,grapes, including resins) should be avoided. Regular activity like walkin is Regarding medicines follow advice of your doctor.
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Endocrinologist•Hubli-Dharwad
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It is very difficult to give a clear answer why it happened. But it appears the earlier treatment of giving two sulfonylureas (SU) together was a wrong approach. Ideally one of the SUs is given along with metformin most often. Secondly diabetes itself damages glomerular filtering membrane in the kidney, this leads deterioration of kidney function. That leads to increase in creatinine level, protein excretion etc. In such situation Insulin is the best medication for blood glucose control. Ideally...more
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Homeopath•Hyderabad
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Rest. Many of the conditions that cause leg and foot numbness, such as nerve pressure, improve with rest.
Ice. ...
Heat. ...
Massage. ...
Exercise. ...
Supportive devices. ...
Epsom salt baths. ...
Mental techniques and stress reduction.
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Urologist•Ludhiana
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If you feel that you have weak urine flow and since your prostate is also enlarged start tab urimax once daily for 1 month and see how is the response. You might need gall bladder surgery in future if you have pain in right upper abdomen.
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Endocrinologist•Dharwad
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Mr. lybrate-user, Thanks for the query.
Since she has been taking oral anti-diabetic drugs for controlling blood glucose, it has to T2 diabetes. In T1 only Insulin Injection has to be given. No other drug works.
She now has an uncontrolled diabetes that is the reason for excess urination at night and weight loss, because more of glucose is being lost in the urine.
She needs to achieve a strict blood glucose control with FBG < 100 mg, PP 170 to 180 mg & HbA1c% <7. That means there has...more
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