T2 Medication

[brileo]

Does anyone know how long gliclazide, metformin and/or insulin take to get into the blood stream and start to act on the bg
also does anything help to bring down bg quickly?

 

[MaxRebo001]

Gliclazide started working for me within a day, metformin i'm not so sure as it never did more than knock a point or 2 off my level.

Reducing carbs will lower blood sugars remarkably quickly, how much depends on the individual and the amount of carbs eaten.

 

[miahara]

Hard to tell. I started gliclazide in December and also cut sugars and reduced carbs and my BG fell quite steeply over the first month and a half or so. The graph only shows from when I started recording, it was much higher at the start.
I've continued to reduce carbs and BG has maintained a steady reduction.

 

[jennifer9]

When i first started Metformin it took 3-5 days to kick in, Gliclazide started work within 1-2 days and insulin should work right away

 

[bulkbiker]

Does anyone know how long gliclazide, metformin and/or insulin take to get into the blood stream and start to act on the bg
also does anything help to bring down bg quickly?

Yeah the Low Carb High Fat diet works really well just avoid as many carbs as possible.