There are many treatments, of course for diabetes. In type II diabetes probably the most common treatments are the oral treatments, the tablets that you take -Sulfonylureas, Metformin- drugs which basically help the pancreas to produce more insulin and thus keep your blood sugar down. There are newer drugs called glitasones which augment that process. What I would say is take them. You take them as often as the doctor prescribes them and you take them as often as you need to. That’s the first thing. The second thing is to test your diabetes. Some people test the urine, more commonly these days people test the blood with a little pin prick test into meter. Test it regularly, test it at different times of the day so you’re not always testing at the same time and check it.

If you find that your blood sugar is starting to drift, don’t think to yourself, well in a couple months time I’m going to the diabetic clinic so that’ll be alright. If you think that your blood sugar isn’t what it should be, then you see the doctor or the nurse right now. The whole point about diabetes is good tight control of your blood sugar. And if you can manage that, that’s fine. If you can’t, you report it earlier rather than later but you do not, you do not wait.

Posted: 15/01/2009