is an oral medication used to treat type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is what most adults with diabetes have – they make insulin, but it’s effects are weak, and blood sugar rises. .
Metformin helps lower blood sugar, and . But, like most therapies, there are side-effects.
So, the best thing to do is to eat a healthy diet, exercise, and lose weight! I was prescribed metformin and took it for some months because my (Hgb A1C) was borderline-high (prediabetes). As I lost weight, my HgbA1C fell after weight loss, and I stopped the metformin on my physician’s advice.
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