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Diabetic2ForYou

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hi, y'all, so i take four 500mg Metformin a day, two morning two after last meal. I just had my last meal and went to take my meds. I took the first one, but then something happened which caused me to get distracted, and now I don't know if I took the second one plus an extra. I'm worried now, because I'm soon going to sleep and this hasn't ever happened! Am I going to be ok?
 
This reply will probably be far too late but safest is not to take another (just in case) best leave it as it is
 
Diabetic2ForYou said:
Hi, y'all, so i take four 500mg Metformin a day, two morning two after last meal. I just had my last meal and went to take my meds. I took the first one, but then something happened which caused me to get distracted, and now I don't know if I took the second one plus an extra. I'm worried now, because I'm soon going to sleep and this hasn't ever happened! Am I going to be ok?
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No personal experience with metformin but - as what it does is slow down your liver making new glucose, the worst that can probably happen is maybe your BG might be ever so slightly higher for a few hours than it would otherwise have been.

Metformin has no impact on starches/sugars in what you eat. Info from Bilous and Donnelly, Handbook of Diabetes.
 
My Daily Metformin dose is 2550 (3*850 a day) so I wouldn't panic about an overdose situation
 
I woke up the other morning to discover I'd completely forgotten to take my metformin the previous evening; it was still in my pill box! The occasional missed dose, or mistimed dose, as in your case, won't matter, but not a good idea to do it too often! And they do tell you not to take it if you've got a tummy upset and can't eat, or if you are going to have to fast for any reason, like a colonoscopy or similar. Do you dispense your metformin into a weekly pill box, so you can see at a glance what you have or haven't taken? I find it not only helps remember, but also stops the horrible end-of-the-week almost-empty blister packs sitting around!
 
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