{"id":634257,"date":"2010-01-19T00:14:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T05:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47761-metformin-dosage-questions.html"},"modified":"2010-01-19T00:14:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T05:14:49","slug":"metformin-dosage-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/634257","title":{"rendered":"Metformin dosage questions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I was on 500&#215;2 for 2 years with little affect. My wife said our Doctor increased me to &#8216;4 a day&#8217;. I see some take 1000&#215;2.<\/p>\n<p>Question&#8230;is 1000&#215;2 the same as &#8216;4 a day&#8217; -OR- &#8216;one 4 times a day&#8217; ???  :confused: <\/p>\n<p>If I take 2 pills at the same time in the morning and 2 at the same time in the afternoon&#8230;will my BG drop faster then &#8216;one 4 times a day&#8217; ?? \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Will 2\/500&#8217;s at a time make me spew <font color=\"Green\">green slime<\/font> and make my head spin around?  \ud83d\ude2e <\/p>\n<p>TIA<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on 500&#215;2 for 2 years with little affect. My wife said our Doctor increased me to &#8216;4 a day&#8217;. I see some take 1000&#215;2. Question&#8230;is 1000&#215;2 the same as &#8216;4 a day&#8217; -OR- &#8216;one 4 times a day&#8217; ??? :confused: If I take 2 pills at the same time in the morning and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2EZX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}