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Hi Recently I discovered sudden weight loss and checked my sugar and found my fasting sugar level at 195 and hb1ac at10. 5.After consulting doctor in around two week I brought it down to 115, and 142 and then to 112 and 124 (fasting & PP. I take istamet twice daily after breakfast and dinner as advised by doctor and offcourse morning and evening walk, climbing stairs etc plus diet control My question is that should I stop istamet or reduce it to one tablet in place of two tablets daily and keep check on my sugar level.
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Istamet is not the right type of medicine to de-escalate since you are having such a good sugar control by diet and exercise. The correct way forward should be to stop istamet altogether and just give you Metformin (which is present in Istamet). I believe you would do well on Metformin alone.
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