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Question of the Week | Pregnancy & Diabetes Medication

AR is 6 weeks pregnant, what action is recommended?

AR has PCOS and type 2 diabetes and is in shock because they just discovered they are 6 weeks pregnant.  AR takes metformin 1000mg BID plus empagliflozin (Jardiance) 25 mg and their most recent A1C is 8.6%.

Which of the following actions do you recommend?

  1. Stop empagliflozin
  2. Stop metformin, keep empagliflozin
  3. Stop metformin and empagliflozin, start insulin.
  4. Stop empagliflozin, start a GLP-1 inhibitor.

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