Your Guide to Diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2

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Printer-Friendly Version of the "Action Steps" if You DON'T Use Insulin

• Follow your meal plan.
• Don't skip meals, especially if you take diabetes medicine, because your blood glucose may go too low. It may be better to eat several small meals during the day instead of one or two big meals.

• See your doctor before starting an exercise program.

Keep a daily record of

• Your blood glucose numbers.
• The times of the day you took your diabetes pills.

• Tell your doctor if you have hypoglycemia often, especially at the same time of the day or night several times in a row.
• Be sure to tell your doctor about other medicines you are taking.
• Some diabetes pills can cause hypoglycemia. Ask your doctor whether your pills can cause hypoglycemia.

• Take your diabetes pills, even if you've been throwing up.

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