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<blockquote data-quote="sno0opy" data-source="post: 2304115" data-attributes="member: 513948"><p>Yea the main difference is that gliclazide stimulates your pancreas to produce more insulin. So on the one hand the extra insulin helps reduce your blood sugars. The down side is that becuase the drug is forcing to produce more insulin, it doesn't stop if you don't eat carbs. So normally if you have lowish blood sugar, your body stops producing insulin so you level out at maybe 4 or ,5. With the new drug your body is forced to keep producing insulin so it keeps rescing your blood sugars to dangerously low levels. You can end up with a hypo which is very low blood sugar which you have to treat with glucose.</p><p></p><p>The only way to avoid that is to eat enough carbs to balance out the amount of Extra insulin you are producing to keep your levels low. You can end up on in the same balancing act as before but with higher risk, take in enough carbs to keep your self from getting a hypo but not too much to end up with high sugars.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sno0opy, post: 2304115, member: 513948"] Yea the main difference is that gliclazide stimulates your pancreas to produce more insulin. So on the one hand the extra insulin helps reduce your blood sugars. The down side is that becuase the drug is forcing to produce more insulin, it doesn't stop if you don't eat carbs. So normally if you have lowish blood sugar, your body stops producing insulin so you level out at maybe 4 or ,5. With the new drug your body is forced to keep producing insulin so it keeps rescing your blood sugars to dangerously low levels. You can end up with a hypo which is very low blood sugar which you have to treat with glucose. The only way to avoid that is to eat enough carbs to balance out the amount of Extra insulin you are producing to keep your levels low. You can end up on in the same balancing act as before but with higher risk, take in enough carbs to keep your self from getting a hypo but not too much to end up with high sugars. [/QUOTE]
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