Even people with well-controlled diabetes may find that injury, infection, surgery, or fever results in temporary loss of blood sugar control. Generic Starlix can be used alone or combined with another diabetes drug, called Glucophage, that tackles the other part of the problem, working to improve the body response to whatever insulin it makes. Subscribe to our popular newsletter containing regular roundup of medication news, alerts and new drug approvals. Special information if you are pregnant or breastfeeding Because the effects of Starlix on the unborn child have not been adequately studied, Nateglinide should not be used during pregnancy. Failure to follow sound diet and exercise plan can lead to serious complications, such as dangerously high or low blood sugar levels. Nateglinide is not recommended if blood glucose levels have not been controlled by sulfonylurea since nateglinide and starlix que ningun medico la aprobacion sulfonylureas have similar mechanism of action. You may be more likely to have hypoglycemia low blood sugar if you are taking nateglinide with other drugs that lower blood sugar.