Protoflow and Diabetes Medicine

Because low and high blood sugar both cause harm, and herbs can push readings in either direction.

Diabetes is also a common cause of urinary symptoms, including night-time urination, as MedlinePlus lists (MedlinePlus, Nocturia). A man with poorly controlled diabetes who treats his night trips with a supplement may miss the real cause. The first step is a check of blood sugar with the doctor.

• Sweating, shaking or a pounding heart
• Hunger, headache or irritability
• Confusion or blurred vision
• Fainting in severe cases

Treat low blood sugar as your doctor taught you, and seek emergency care for confusion or loss of consciousness.

Test as your team advises, and add checks before meals and at bedtime in the first two weeks if they agree.

Write the readings next to the doses in your diary. A pattern of lows after the capsules, or of rises, is a reason to stop and call. If you use a continuous monitor, its graph will show any change. Bring it to the visit.

High blood sugar makes you pass more urine, which can cause frequency and night trips that mimic prostate trouble.

NIDDK lists diabetes among the causes of urinary problems (NIDDK, Enlarged Prostate (BPH)). Getting blood sugar under control may relieve symptoms with no prostate treatment at all. That is one more reason to see a doctor first, and it is a reason a capsule is a poor first step for a man with diabetes.

Ask your team, test more often at the start and keep your medicine as prescribed. If a pattern of low or high readings appears, stop the capsules, call the clinic and keep your diary, which shows exactly when each reading was taken and what you had taken beforehand.

Blood sugar control does more for urinary symptoms than most supplements.