
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?
- Stop empagliflozin
- Stop metformin, keep empagliflozin
- Stop metformin and empagliflozin, start insulin.
- Stop empagliflozin, start a GLP-1 inhibitor.
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