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After fasting for 12 hours his blood sugar was 220 and after 2 hours of eating it was 350. so is it enough to just lower my eating or take a medicine.

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You have diabetes: And need diet and diabetes education, diet, exercise, weight loss, monitoring, lab, medical instruction, normalization of other risk factors, and your doctor will need to initiate medication with one or more oral therapies.

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Answered 1/30/2014

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