Oxra 10Mg Tablet Health Feed

Hello, Thanks for the query.
I have seen the details given.
It is difficult to say whether the dosage is high or not. However, considering you are 68 years old, and blood glucose is not too high, it appears that current medications prescribed appear to be a bit high. Particularly 4 mg of Glimiperide is quite high. Plus Dapagliflozin and metformin combination can reduce glucose failry rapidly. If you have any questions plrase do come back. Thanks.

Hello, thanks for the query. I have seen the details mentioned. With h/o acute pancreatis there is no insulin secretion. Hence no oral medication can work. Because the oral drugs act either by stimulating beta cell to secrete insulin (by different methods) or by reducing insulin resistance. But because there is no insulin secretion at all so those drugs can not act. Hence, insulin injections is the only option. That to multiple doses may be required (long acting & rapid acting). The drugs like s...more

Dapaglifozin does helps reducing weight. But other factors are also important. You should mention your complete blood sugar profile and mention your height.

Your blood sugars indicate that your glucose control is quite worse. I would suggest to start long acting insulin, e.g. Lantus in your case. Need to know about hba1c as well as renal function tests.

Hello, thanks for the query.
I have gone through the details given. However, I did not see any mention of important info like fasting & pp glucose and current hba1c%, dietary details, extent of daily physical exercise and bp as well as lipid profile.
Another aspect is that drugs like udupa (dapagliflozin), invokana (canagliflozin) tablet motyvyst 300 (canagliflozin 300 mg) & jardiance (empagliflozin) all these are similar drugs, known as sglt - 2 inhibitors, which act by excreting extra ...more

Hello this is lybrate-user. alwin christopher, practising geriatrician keeping her borderline gfr in mind, the drugs she is taking it looks safe
pp sugars are high - better to take appropiate dose of regular insulin (actrapid post meal)

There is a wide range of drugs that are prescribed for Diabetes Mellitus. However, do patients really know why those drugs are prescribed and how they act? Not always.

In this article, I shall briefly describe the mechanism of action of anti Diabetic drugs as it is very important for patients to know the same.

The following are the drugs (as described by their pharmacologic names) and their actions

1) METFORMIN: Improves Insulin Sensitivity, i.e, the response of cells ...more