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Can doubling up on my diabetes medicine, metformin, have any bad side effects? i'm trying to lower my blood sugar faster.
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Don't do it: You can get very sick and damage yourself permanently if you try to "speed-lower" your blood sugar. Managing diabetes requires close collaboration with your physician -- in fact, much close than any other illness except cancer chemotherapy.
Answered 12/25/2019
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