I am 70 year old having type 1 diabetes from last 50 years. 6 month ago I have faced a cerebral attack. Before that I was facing irregular hypoglycemia (starting from once in a month then increases) from last 15 years. I was taking human mixtard 25 unit at morning and 15 unit at night. After attack I am taking 14 unit and 6 unit. Presently my pppg is 163 and fpg is 132. Creatinine 1.5 urea 54. Can I take insulin and trajenta 5 mg simultaneously to control my sugar level normal?

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Dr. Pramod Kumar SharmaEndocrinologist38yrs exp

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It is better to increase dose of insulin at night by two units, so that your fasting blood sugar become acceptable. You already had attacks of hypoglycemia and adding Trajenta may increase the chances of it. Why to expose your self to hypoglycemia and other side effects of another medicine when you can control blood sugar easily and more scientifically with insulin by titrating its dose. Please keep your blood sugar targets a little higher to avoid hypoglycemia.

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