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Timing of Metformin

sterling

sterling

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Location
Centre of England
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I will now take four off 500 g tabets per day of standard Metformin.

At present, I am going for 2 tablets at breakfast (07:30) and 2 tablets with dinner (20:00).

Would anyone spread differently? My fasting test is my highest of the day.

Should I take one with lunch, or possibly one immediate before bedtime?
 
Hi Sterling metformin doesnt work 'immediately' like say an aspirin will, it builds up in your body so when you take the tablets wont affect your levels but most people take them with breakfast and evening meat which splits the dose evenly through the day and taking them with food helps to counteract and tummy type side effects that some people get.

The max dose of 4 X 500mg tabs of Metformin will help to drop your bg levels by between 1 and 2 mmol/L so is not a wonder drug in the sense that it will get your levels down quickly but in conjunction with a diet that cuts carbs it will help greatly :D
 
Thank you, Sid.

That appears to be the answer then. Does timing is irrelevant.

That is one more thing that I can stop worrying about.

People on this forum are very kind in answering my questions. I'm getting there gradually.
 
Hi I take 1 metformin after breakfast, 1 metformin after lunch and 1 after dinner in the evening. I also take 1 Glic just before my main meal. That's confusing me as sometimes that at lunch and sometimes at dinner depending on what's going on. My initial reading was 23.9 when I was diagnosed in April, and now it is around 6 or 7 fasting. I've never seen a dietician but am thinking of asking to see one.
 
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