Way back in 1995, doctors in the US and patients with diabetes had a new option to treat type 2 diabetes: a drug of a different kind from those already available: up until then, the only available drugs for T2DM in the US were the insulins, and a class of drugs called the sulfonylureas. The new drug...
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The real problem with Precose
Jenny Ruhl
Monday, May 25, 2009 at 03:11 PMre: The real problem with Precose
frankenduf
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 05:15 PMyour post made me smile- acarbose came out when i was a student and was marketed as a 'starch blocker'- and they had these commercials on late nite TV (maybe on youtube?), where they would show heaping portions of spaghetti and meat sauce, and mashed potatoes and gravy- the narrator would say you could eat these foods and not gain weight if taken with acarbose- and i would always shout in indignation at the screen "what about all the meat and gravy, like those don't add calories?!"- so i always laughed at that ad, but i never even thought of what you point out- even if you could eat the mountain of mash and lose weight, you may lose friends as a side effect! :)
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Precose actually works quite well to lower blood sugar. The reason it isn't prescribed is that it only works well with a carb restricted diet. Then it allows a person to add 15-20 g per meal.
If you use Precose (acarbose) with a high carb, especially one full of grains, you wil experience intense and socially ostracising gas. Even with a low carb diet, it works best if you use it no more than one meal a day.
I used it for a year back when my doctors would not give me insulin and it helped me maintain my blood sugar until I finally found a more helpful doctor.