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<blockquote data-quote="Robbity" data-source="post: 766149" data-attributes="member: 93179"><p>Just take your fourth pill with your evening meal - it's not writ in stone how/when you take them, and you won't come to any harm. </p><p></p><p>It's usually best to take metformin with food as it helps avoid any problems with your tum and/or guts. But you could try taking it at bed time and see if it causes any upsets - if not and it makes your happier to spread your dose wider, I don't see why you couldn't do it that way either. I don't know if your doctor has a valid reason for saying just three meals a day, but you could maybe eat slightly smaller ones and have a little supper with a bedtimet dose of metformin - I've even seen advice to have "midnight" snacks if you wake during the night!</p><p></p><p>If you have a meter and are testing, then maybe look for any patterns or higher/lower readings, and you could then possibly adjust your 4th metformin to accommodate these. (I split my 2xSR metformin dose from both at night to one morning and one evening, as this was actually a better balance for me. I just let doctor or pharmacist know.)</p><p></p><p>Robbity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robbity, post: 766149, member: 93179"] Just take your fourth pill with your evening meal - it's not writ in stone how/when you take them, and you won't come to any harm. It's usually best to take metformin with food as it helps avoid any problems with your tum and/or guts. But you could try taking it at bed time and see if it causes any upsets - if not and it makes your happier to spread your dose wider, I don't see why you couldn't do it that way either. I don't know if your doctor has a valid reason for saying just three meals a day, but you could maybe eat slightly smaller ones and have a little supper with a bedtimet dose of metformin - I've even seen advice to have "midnight" snacks if you wake during the night! If you have a meter and are testing, then maybe look for any patterns or higher/lower readings, and you could then possibly adjust your 4th metformin to accommodate these. (I split my 2xSR metformin dose from both at night to one morning and one evening, as this was actually a better balance for me. I just let doctor or pharmacist know.) Robbity [/QUOTE]
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