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Bloating and sickness with acarbose

Rabdos

Rabdos

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Hello,

I feel 6 days now considerable sickness and bloating with acarbose 100mg.

What can I do? Is there any alternative? Shall I continue? It makes me feel very sick.
 
Rabdos said:
Hello,

I feel 6 days now considerable sickness and bloating with acarbose 100mg.

What can I do? Is there any alternative? Shall I continue? It makes me feel very sick.
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I would go back to the Dr, if a prescribed medication is giving me 'feel very sick'
An adverse reaction to something you are ingesting, is your body telling you, that whatever it is you are introducing it to, is not agreeable to it.
 
Rabdos said:
Hello,

I feel 6 days now considerable sickness and bloating with acarbose 100mg.

What can I do? Is there any alternative? Shall I continue? It makes me feel very sick.
Click to expand...
I would see my GP if that was happening to me from a prescribed medication, but that's me...
 
Acarbose is not often used nowadays due to the high prevalence of side effects and the availability of other oral agents such as the gliptins, SGLT-2 inhibitors and pioglitazone. But otherwise it is a useful drug cos no hypos or weight gain due to acarbose itself
100 mg is a big UK dose - I used to start on 25mg (half a tablet) and increase to 50 mg with each meal - it was rare for anyone to tolerate it.
Have you tried a 50 mg dose? As with most oral agents, as one increases the dose, the glucose lowering effct does not increase so much, but side effects do.
Best wishes
 
Yes I tried 50mg and it's more tolerated, thanks.
I will titrate to 100mg though, I think that's the indicated dose, three times per day.
 
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