My father (age 72) weight 62 kg, height 5.5 has diabetes which is in control. He is taking below medicines for more than 3 years. How long does he needs to take these medicines? Does these medicines need to change coz it's under control? Below are d medicines and latest report number. Medicines: 1) gluformin xl 2) glycomet gp 0.5 mg 3) tg tor 5 mg 4) calcitas d3 gl. Below are recent test results/report hba1c: 5.99 % mean blood glucose: 135.9 mg fasting: 99.80 post pp: 149.70 **lipid profile report serum. Cholesterol: 172 mg/dl serum. Triglyceride: 132 s.hdl cholesterol: 44 mg/dl ldl cholesterol: 101.6 non hdl cholesterol: 128 vldl cholesterol: 26.4 chol/hdl chol (ratio): 3.9 ldl chol/hdl ratio: 2.3.

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Dr. Col V C GoyalGeneral Physician45yrs exp

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1.no alcohol 3. No smoking/ tobacco/drugs/ avoid pollution 4. Diet - no ghee/ butter, have mix of vegetable oils - mustard, til, ground nut, olive oil, have more green vegetables and fruits, have whole grain atta, no fried. Fast. Spicy / processed/ junk food. Less sugar, potato, rice 5. 30 mts brisk walk daily 6. Deep breathing exercise for 10 mts daily 7. Meditation daily for 10 mts. 6-8 hrs of sleep at night 8. Expose your body to sun for 15-20 mts daily after some oil massage to get vit d. 9. Take more water medicine can not be advised for open question ,for medicine and further advise contact on private consults.

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