My blood sugar is getting higher and higher while taking hypoglycemic drugs.

After taking medicine to treat diabetes for a period of time, many patients find that the effect is not good and their blood sugar is getting higher and higher. At this time, they often suspect that the medicine they are taking is inappropriate. In fact, hypoglycemic drugs are not very effective. In these cases, the corresponding solutions are different. Find out which one you fall into.

 

Type 1: Failure to control diet and exercise leads to poor medication effects

 

With the same course and condition of diabetes, and the same medication, some people have good results while others have poor results. This is largely a matter of lifestyle management. People who get good results from taking medicine often also carry out lifestyle management, such as diet control and regular exercise. However, most of the patients with poor results do not carry out scientific lifestyle management.

 

Solution: Strengthen lifestyle management

 

If diabetic patients, especially new patients, find that the blood sugar control effect is not satisfactory when they start taking medication, do not rush to the doctor to change the medication, let alone increase the dosage of the medication on your own, first think about whether your behavior management is not in place.

 

"Shut your mouth, open your legs, and your blood sugar will come down." This is basically the truth for patients with short-term diabetes.

 

For example, if your blood sugar is high after a meal, you can eat less during the meal and set aside some of it between meals; or you can insist on exercising scientifically after a meal. can make the medicine more effective.

 

Second type: primary failure of the drug

 

Lifestyle management remains the same as before, with healthy and regular diet and exercise. However, as diabetes progresses, some patients do experience drug failure. If you find that your blood sugar control has been unsatisfactory for one month and other possible triggering factors have been ruled out, primary drug failure may have occurred.

 

Solution: Change dressing

 

Failure of one drug does not mean failure of all drugs. At this time, it is correct and necessary to change the drug.

 

The third type: secondary drug failure

 

If a drug works well initially but then stops working after a few years, this is called secondary drug failure.

 

Solution: Increase the amount

 

It turns out that a certain medicine is no longer effective. You can try increasing the dose first.

 

Solution: Add medication

 

If the effect is still not good, you can add another one or two drugs, or you can add insulin once.

 

Solution: Change dressing

 

If the effect is still not good after increasing the dosage or adding medicine, you can switch to other oral medicines, or completely switch to insulin treatment.

 

In short, don’t worry, just increase the dosage when it’s time to increase the dosage, and change the dressing when it’s time to change it. There are many solutions. As long as you measure blood sugar frequently, communicate with doctors more, modify the treatment plan when necessary, learn more knowledge and manage it scientifically, you can exert the good effect of hypoglycemic drugs.