therapy

You should do everything we can to lower your blood sugar level. What kind of treatment the doctor will suggest, depends on your personal characteristics. If you are too thick for example, and generally move too little, is the maxim: avoid sugary foods lose weight, and move more. All this lowers the sugar level in blood. Maybe this enough - you do not need pills or injections.

Does your diet and exercise program does not work, the doctor will prescribe medication. Tablets come into question, however, only if your body still produces insulin itself. There are different tablets with different active ingredients, they put on at different points in the body. Sulphonyl ureas such as glyburide or glimepiride to stimulate the pancreas to about to release more insulin. The drug metformin, however, supports the hormone insulin in their work.

If tablets are sufficient for you, you can even consider using a urine test. If the test strip in urine sugar, your blood sugar level is too high. Then the last meal was too big or your medication is not enough. Maybe the doctor will then recommend a higher dose or a different therapy.
Terminus of insulin? No!

Tablets can not lower your blood sugar level high enough, you have to get used to the idea to inject insulin. This also applies if your pancreas to produce insulin has been discontinued.

The range of insulins is large: There are natural and synthetic, fast-acting and long lasting. Some diabetics have to inject only for meals, others are the regular morning and evening injections. Others inject insulin and take additional pills.

Many people with diabetes are afraid that there is no going back more, once they have injected insulin. But that's not true. If you are taking tablets so far, you may - after consultation with your doctor - try it confidently, whether you feel comfortable with insulin may be better. False is the idea that you would over time increase the dose of insulin bound. On the contrary, often the body's cells react with time sensitive to the hormone.

How should you handle the injections and how you lose the fear of injection, you get to learn in the diabetes education program. They will tell you everything about your disease and how you can cope well in everyday life come.