The Jury's Still Out on Victoza
Novo Nordisk is well-known in the diabetes community for its insulins, Novolog and Levemir, used to treat mainly type 1 diabetes. But in the last year, Novo launched a new kind of injectable, a "first line of defense for people with type 2 diabete... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - April 7, 2010 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Amy Tenderich Source Type: blogs
Insulin v. Triple oral therapy for DM
Diabetes Care 12/23/09 – “Insulin is the most effective hypoglycemic agent in our treatment armamentarium and is now recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) guidelines as the second agent added after metformin” (FTA). Despite this fact (or because some of us were unaware of this guideline), physicians often prefer to max out that second and third oral medication before turning to insulin. An article in Diabetes Care looks at a comparison between a three drug regimen and insulin + metformin for newly diagnosed DM.
The study compared 2 groups of 29 subjects that were newly diagnosed diabe...
Source: Consider The Evidence: Med/Peds Journal Roundup - January 3, 2010 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: medblog Tags: diabetes Source Type: blogs
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Hi...new here. I was diagnosed in March, 2005 with diabetes. They started treating me as a type 2 diabetic. I was 39 and losing weight (down to 116#) which was not the typical type 2. After further testing they found I have the antibodies that show beta cell destruction...so I am type 1 (or LADA). I stopped the Glyburide since it was flogging my pancreas to create more insulin with what little ability it had left. Now on MDI of Novolog.It's been close to one year and sometimes feels like an eternity. I started this post to just put my thoughts somewhere about this disease and me. (Source: Sweetsnomo)
Source: Sweetsnomo - February 24, 2006 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
My Worst Fears
I live in mortal fear that I'll screw up one night and take a large dose of Novolog instead of the required long-acting Lantus. (Which would of course mean hypoglycemic coma.) Or one sleepy morning I'll take my dose of Lantus again, by accident, a... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - May 18, 2005 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Amy Tenderich Source Type: blogs
