I'm 60 years old. Few days back my diabetes report came as 280 (after meal) but today I went for checkup and report came as 318. I'm already keeping eye on my diet. Can you please suggest any medication to control it?

Dr. Savitri KOphthalmologist4yrs exp

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Hello sir. First of all I suggest you to develop a basic habit of getting your blood sugar checked by the same machine at a lab or the same device at home with the same company strips. This will minimise any machine or technical error. As we can see that your fasting sugar has come out to be more than your post prandial (after meal), so you should get yourself thoroughly checked without further delay. Get a baseline fbs, ppbs, hba1c, urine routine and micro report done first. Depending upon the report oral tablets will be started afterwards. Also one very very very important thing I would like to share with you is that please get your complete eye checkup (specially retina) done every yearly. Diabetes is known to affect every organ of the body. It affects the eyes and kidneys first. If eye problem is detected early, it can be managed simply by strict sugar control or by laser treatment. If due care is not taken at an early stage, then it advances to a stage of irreversible vision loss requiring major surgery and even after the surgery the vision would not come back to what you have now. So be active to get diagnosed and treated early. You can follow up with me anytime with your reports and for any other diet or eye related advise. Hope this helps.  

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