metformin and food

Hi all, Im just wondering what works for you if you decide to eat a carb heavy meal without an exaggerated glucose spike? I am mostly interested to understand if a one-time Metformin will help? or a one-time Acarbose dose? Without building these medications level in the blood (one-off?). There...

Can you take Metformin on an empty stomach I have recently begun taking Metformin 4 x 500 a day I would prefer to loose weight by fasting and only eating one meal a day Can I either take Metformin on an empty stomach or take 4 with evening meal?

Recently diagnosed with Type 2 and new to this forum so I am really sorry if I ask something already covered, but we are just getting our head around all this. After reading "fast 800" and "The 8 week Blood Sugar diet" we were decided to follow Michael Mosley's approach with food. However, after...

Hello, I am type-2 diabetic and diagnosed with it few years back. I am 37 years and weighing around 68. I have recently started doing intermittent fasting(16:8) for last three weeks and stopped taking metformin. I have also reduced my carbohydrates intake and mostly eating vegetables, nuts and...

Hi. Quick question - just been told that I'm starting off on Metformin as my blood sugar increased somewhat at the last blood test. I have to take it with food. I already take Lansoprazole (before food on a morning). I have read that there does not appear to be any kind of reaction between the...

I would like to seek your suggestions if it's better to take my daily metformin, 1000mg total, based on how many meals I have per day, also take into account on light/heavy meal, etc. My recent H1bAc was too high, > 10, so I would like to be very careful on my BG level, and want to make sure...

Just weighed myself this morning and if I can loose another 3/4 of a lb I'll have lost 1 stone (with Slimming World) more in actual fact since I started by trying to loose weight by myself some months before. I saw something on diet doctor today, that talked about not having anything for...