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While you are taking this drug, it is important that your family doctor check your progress at regular appointments.

Check with your family doctor right away if you can't eat normally while taking this drug because of nausea, loss of appetite, or for any other reason. Taking this drug when you have not been eating normally for few days may cause low blood sugar - hypoglycemia.

If symptoms of low blood sugar - hypoglycemia appear, stop taking this drug, eat or drink something containing sugar and check with your family doctor right away . Good sources of sugar are table sugar mixed in water, sugar cubes, orange juice, corn syrup, or honey. One popular source of sugar is a glassful of orange juice containing 2 or 3 teaspoonfuls of table sugar.

• Tell someone ahead of time to take you to your family doctor or to a hospital right away if you begin to feel that you may pass out. If you do pass out, emergency help must be gotten at once .
• Even if you correct the symptoms of low blood sugar by eating or drinking something with sugar, it is very important to call your family doctor right away. The effects this drug has on low blood sugar may last for a few days and the symptoms may return often during this period of time .