Type 1 Diabetes Treatment

Health Q&A
Blood glucose level high

For the last few months my blood glucose level has been higher than normal at 135 during FBS. Any recommendations or suggestions would be helpful.

Hypothyroidism

My TSH levels decreased from 2.5 to 0.17 With 100 mcg dosage as am not feeling gud Does the dose need to be adjusted I mean reduced Pls suggest

Medicine changed

Dear sir I am diabetic and bp patient recently I checked following test attached file. Ferritin 6.20 urine aluminium ration 13 lipid profile ok and hba1c 6.4. currently 8 am taking volix m 0.3 three times, zalra m 2 times , depamac m 10 one time and Ecosprin av 75 night. I visited the doctor who asked for these test and given diamicron xt 30/500 at night and empaone sm contains metformin 1000 stigliptin 100 and empagliflozin 10 in morning. So I request to kindly guide should I take previous medicine or the current which doctor suggested. Thanks and looking for you quick response

Balanitis symptoms

Hi Doctor, i have some Balanitis symptoms on my penis foreskin, Will you please check attached image and confirm? 1st image is of my penis normal look in flaccid state and foreskin not cover glans in flaccid state also. So today while retracting my foreskin more back i found my outermost foreskin tip sticked to the shaft through some swelling as seen in 2nd attached image. Maybe due to this reason my foreskin is not coming over glans again. Is this a symptom of Balanitis. I also cleared smegma deposited there from so many years which i didn't know to clean it regularly.

USG ABDOMEN

Hello! This are my reports!! I have fatty liver grade 1. Currently i am on medication. My meds are :- 1) actibile 300 tablet daily twice for 30 days, 2) Upline E mega softgel capsule daily once for 30 days 3) vitamin d3 60k IU once every week for 8 weeks.. I have just one query.. what is multiple GB polyps in report? Is it concerning? Pls elaborate in detail. And another thing is i have started gym a month ago.. my weight was 124 kgs.. i have reduced 6 kgs till now. Is it safe to take one scoop of protein powder in this condition? Or avoid? Please reply in detail if possible. Thanks

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