The A1c test is most commonly used and is also used to monitor blood sugar in people with...
Q: I’m confused by the relationship between my blood glucose level and A1c. My blood glucose has crept up from 100 to 112 in one year after I started taking 40 mg of atorvastatin. My A1c level is 5.1 percent, apparently “normal,” so my doctor is unconcerned about the blood glucose reading.
People can have diabetes with a normal A1c, and even with normal fasting blood sugars. The glucose tolerance test is the most sensitive test for most people, since high blood sugar after eating usually happens long before high fasting sugars. Q: My husband was prescribed Singulair by his allergist and took it for two years. At the end of that time, he was diagnosed with depression and memory loss. His neurologist advised that he shouldn’t take it, but his pulmonologist recommends it. Do you take the FDA warnings about the drug seriously? Most doctors don’t know about them.Montelukast is commonly used for asthma and allergic rhinitis.
I can’t say for sure whether your husband’s issues are caused by Singulair, but I would consider the neurologist’s advice to discontinue it to see whether he improves. The best estimate I could find for depression was that less than 1 percent of people on this medicine were diagnosed with depression severe enough to warrant prescription drug treatment in the first year of taking it.
The surgery’s reputation of being “horrific” is undeserved. I have had several patients in the last few years undergo this surgical procedure, and although they have certainly had a few days of pain after the procedure, all have been happy with the outcomes. Surgeons often use long-acting local anesthetics, and the pain is greatly reduced when they are combined with better surgical procedures, compared to older surgical techniques and anesthesia.
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