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Low blood sugar on regular basis

My mother has type 2 diabetes and recently started having repeated low sugar episodes around noon. Earlier, her blood sugar was often around 230 mg/dL in the morning, then dropped to 77 mg/dL or lower around 12:00 pm, almost daily. She wakes at 5:00 am, eats breakfast at 7:30 am (egg + chapati), and again at 10:00 am (dosa + dates), but was still getting low sugar before lunch. Her medicines are metformin 500 mg and glimepiride 1 mg, along with atenolol, amlodipine, rosuvas-F10, telma, and veltam. She had also completed a course of Faronem for UTI. Today her sugar was 140 fasting and 209 two hours after lunch, and she did not have a low episode today. She also complains that when her sugar gets low, her urine seems to stop / does not clear properly. Please review whether her diabetes medicines, especially glimepiride, could be causing the noon lows and whether the urinary symptom needs evaluation.

Fluctuations in blood sugar

The blood sugar has been fluctuating between 200 and 300. The patient takes glycomet 500mg 3 times a day, and eats daliya and sometimes rice, after eating rice the sugar increases but even while eating daliya, sugar levels still persists around 200. The previous doctor did tests and gave tablets, but due to eating the tablets the patient has had more fluctuations, then we stopped it and started taking glycomet tablets. Please suggest any tablets or medications to make the sugar stay in control.

Finasteride and side effects

Sir I have taken finasteride for only six days now my ed and ejaculation is ok and swelling is gone. But sometimes when i check my testicles it appears big and some time time small. Is there anything concerning. I have also met general surgeon in my area he said there is nothing concerning. But when I search my symptoms in gemini/chatgpt it says testicular cancer. It has made me anxious I am unable to work

Taking sembolic and Metformin

I am taking semaglutide 3mg and Metformin 500mg two times a day but my sugar came out to be fbs 170 and h1bac 9.48.last time I did my report was 1 month which was fbs179.9 and h1bac 8.6.I am confused .I am finding difficult losing weight I mean it's stable despite having diet .what could be the reason. I am hypertension and OCD patient and have fatty liver. I take following medication Concor am 5 Arkamin Telmisartan 40 Arip mt 10mg Fluvoxamine 150mg Buspirone 10mg two time I am 167cm and 116kg Everything else is normal

Urgent issue about my Diabetes Type 2

I have done hba1c test from Agilus diagnostic on 6 June 2026, it was 5.8 (FBS - 106) . Again on 21 July 2026, I did Hba1c test from Agilus diagnostic and result is 5.5 and FBS - 115. I doubt these both results because of below mentioned points :- 1. I am diabetic type 2 patient from last 4 years. 2. I have taken treatment only once in last 4 years when my Hba1c was peak at around 11.7 in June 2025. I have taken medicines from June 2025 to October 2025 and stopped medicines when my Hba1c was 5.5 and FBS - 98 as per doctor's advice. 3. From June 2025 ( When my treatment was started ) and till now, I am on very strict diet as required for diabetics mangement. 4. But from last 1 month, I think my symptoms has started showing again like urge for pee every 1-2 hours, urge for pee in midnight, itching on foot. Etc. Please help me out about what should I do next because test results are not matching with symptoms.

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