Patient: Tests and labs: Hello! I found high blood sugar on October 9 this year, fasting 11.6, glycated blood sugar 9.6, at present I have been eating bitter melon and diet control, now to about 50 days, blood sugar fasting at about 9.1, I want to ask I started to take some thirst pills, can I? Treatment: Currently using some health care products to lower blood sugar, and drinking bitter melon tea and diet control History: I started to find out on July 1 that I was weak, and the genital tract has been itching, there has been more than a month of bad, I went to check I asked the doctor, I should eat what medicine, how to eat it? Huai’an City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Endocrinology Yin Xuechao: Hello, in response to your question answered as follows: 1, your case belongs to the first-onset diabetes, elimination pill can not be the first choice; 2, health care hypoglycemic products should not be gullible; 3, diet control, exercise are possible; 4, almost two months after the blood sugar still has not reached the standard, it is recommended that drug therapy, because you are the first, it is recommended to use a period of insulin, if the body type is obese, you can combined with metformin and pioglitazone. 5, you are the first, if the conditions allow, early I still recommend you to hospital hospitalization formal treatment for a period of time is better. The reason is that diabetes will be with you for the rest of your life, hospitalization can systematically learn to deal with the knowledge of diabetes, the benefits for life.