[Diabetes-talk] What medications are out there, for people with type two ...

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does any one know about the new drugs tricebia toosaeyo  and  any thing 
else . Angela Perone 
 
 
In a message dated 7/15/2016 11:06:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org writes:

There  are many different types of medicine for type 2 diabetes, both oral 
and  injectable. Metformin is usually the first pill that someone is put on. 
You  are experiencing the most common side effect of metformin, GI issues. 
I have  been on it for 9 years and still get nausea and bowel issues if I 
don't time  my eating and pill swallowing correctly. It is a very annoying 
side effect,  but metformin is a great choice because it has been around a long 
time, it  doesn't cause hypoglycemia, doesn't cause weight gain, and it is 
very  inexpensive, as it is on the $4.00 drug list. 
If the metformin alone is  not controlling your blood glucose levels, then 
a second medicine is usually  added to the metformin regimen. If you find 
that you cannot tolerate the GI  side effects of metformin, tell your doctor 
and ask to be put on a medicine  that is in a different class than metformin. 
Some pills that are in a  different class that do not cause as much GI 
upset are: glyburide, glipizide,  Jardiance, Invokana, Actos and Prandin. 
However, every medicine has its own  set of side effects, so learn as much as you 
can about them. 

Here is a  link to the American Diabetes Association webpage on medications 
for diabetes:  
http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/treatment-and-care/medication/    and here is the link to an audio of this web page: 
American Diabetes  Association, Type 2 Diabetes Medications [audio of web page]  
http://app.na.readspeaker.com/cgi-bin/rsent?customerid=5484&lang=en-us&readid=
site_content&url=http://www.diabetesforecast.org/diabetes-101/type-2-diabete
s-medications.html  

Kim Ladd, RN, BS, CPHQ
Diabetes Educator
Virginia Rehabilitation  Center for the Blind & Vision Impaired
401 Azalea Avenue
Richmond,  Virginia 23227

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Terri Stimmel via  Diabetes-Talk
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 4:16 PM
To:  Diabetes-Talk at nfbnet.org
Cc: Terri Stimmel
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] What  medications are out there, for people with 
type two diabetes?

Hello  everybody,

I wanted to ask, what medications, that are in a pill form,  are available 
with people who have time to diabetes?
I am taking Matt  Foreman currently. I take 1000 mg in the morning, and 
1000 mg at night. This  is the extended release form. We discovered recently, 
by taking me off the Met  Forman for a week, that this has been what has 
caused the caring up of my  stomach.
I was extremely constipated, all of the time,. Even though my  stomach 
doctor put me on a syrup to take twice a day, a medication, and  softener. 
Really none of it made a difference. If I was not constipated or I  would barely 
use the bathroom, I would have serious bouts of diarrhea. It was  awful! My 
stomach doctor actually thought I had Gastro paresis. But my  diabetic 
doctor does not believe this. He has seen the report. I have been on  net Foreman 
for quite a while now. I cannot remember how many years. I have  always had 
trouble with either diarrhea, or painful, severe constipation. I  never 
thought it was the Met Forman. But now that I am only taking one pill, I  
believe that it is the culprit. For the last few days, my stomach is not hurt,  I 
have less gas, and my bowels have worked better than they ever have in the  
last three or so years. I don't want to stay on just one pill of the Met  
Forman. It doesn't give me enough blood sugar control. Plus, I just don't 
want  the medicatio
n in general, if it's going to have these sorts of a  fix.
I also take,Victoza in the morning, I have been for about a year or  two 
now. This works quite well for me. At first I took it at night. But I  found 
out by accident when I was in the hospital one week, that it works  better 
for me in the morning. But it can't do all the work by itself. I go to  see my 
doctor again, this coming Tuesday, even though I was in there about  three 
weeks ago. I want to discuss what other medications we can try. I'm not  on 
insulin. I am grateful for this. So do you all have any ideas as to what  
might help me? Or as to what types of options I may have?
My boyfriend  takes a medication, but I don't know how to spell it. He only 
has to take it  once a day. I just want something that will treat my 
stomach well, that won't  hopefully make me gain weight, and there will most 
importantly help control my  blood sugar. Any ideas, or dots, it would be very 
much  appreciated.

Thank you so much!

Terri 

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