We will talk about the strength of most types of diabetes medications:
In this video we’ll talk about the strength of different diabetes medications but before we go on i would like to say that the strength here are for type 2 diabetes if you take if you have type 1 diabetes then most of this medication will not work for you or will not work much for you and you will need to take insulin why is it important to know which diabetes
Medication are stronger i will show you with two examples in the first example this person has a1c of 9 and the target for a1c is less than 7 so which medication should i take if you do not know what is a1c then please go to hmf-diabetes.com and look it up in this first example probably i would like to use if i use only one medication probably i like to
Use something that can reduce a1c by at least two points and in the second example the a1c is 7.5 and the target is still less than 7 so which medication should i take and in the second example probably you would like to use some less strong medication because if you use a strong medication it will either overshoot and cause low blood sugar and also stronger
Medications tend to cause stronger side effects so this person may suffer from stronger side effects without much additional benefits so you do not want to undershoot and you do not want to overshoot that’s why it’s important to know the strength of different types of diabetes medications so here i give you a list of diabetes medication and their strength in the
First column it is a strength here i’m talking about the strength when you take the maximal dose or a very high dose of the medication if you take a lower dose then the strength will be less for example the medication ozen pig comes in multiple different doses 0.25 milligram every week 0.5 milligram every week and 1 milligram every week here the strength i’m
Talking about the strength of the maximum those one milligram of volpic the three plot signs means this type of medication is very strong what do i mean by very strong it can reduce a1c by more than two points on average which translates to a reduction of blood sugar above 60 milligram per deciliter on average and two plus signs means this medication or
This type of medication is fairly strong what do i mean by fairly strong it can reduce a1c by one to two points on average which translate to reduction of blood sugar by 30 to 60 milligram per deciliter on average whenever there is a brand name i put the generic name inside the brackets so i will pause for a few seconds and you can carefully look at this
Table and the lease goes on again two plus signs means this type of medication is fairly strong which translates to a1c reduction of one to two points and blood sugar reduction of 30 to 60 milligram per deciliter and one plot size means this type of medication is moderate what do i mean by moderate it reduced a1c by 0.5 to 1 points on average which translates
To a blood sugar reduction between 15 to 30 milligrams per deciliter on average and again if the medication has a brand name i will put the generic name inside the brackets and again i would like to emphasize that we’re talking about the strength of those medications for type 2 diabetes if you have type 1 diabetes then most of those medications will not work
Very well for you and you will need to take insulin i will pause for a few seconds so you can look at this table carefully you
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Which diabetes medications are stronger? By Help My Diabetes