My blood sugar is under control, she switched me because metformin was giving me diarrhea. I have not begun the glyburide yet due to the pharmicists advice and; I am allergic to sulfa drugs.
2006-09-29 18:52:19 · 6 answers · asked by Geo 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
Do you know of any that are not sulfa drugs and, that do not cause diarrhea.
2006-09-29 18:53:46 · update #1
I am also low income right now and, she probably prescribed them because they are low priced.
2006-09-29 18:55:13 · update #2
Why not work on controlling your diabetes with just diet and exercise? Exercise is the best treatment for type 2 diabetes. It has no bad side effects and lots of other health benefits besides help in controlling your diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is caused by insulin resistance and exercise sensitizes your cells to better use the insulin you're making. It also helps in weight loss. Excess weight further aggravates insulin resistance. The drugs like glyburide that stimulate your pancreas to produce more insulin is not helping with the CAUSE of your diabetes, which is insulin resistance. Your cells are not recognizing your insulin so making more is not going to help. If you're going to take glyburide you might as well go straight to insulin. Many endocrinologists feel drugs like glyburide tax the pancreas exhausting it to the point that it doesn't produce insulin. If you can't control your diabetes with just diet and exercise and you can't afford some of the other newer drugs or can't tolerate them, talk to a endo about insulin.
2006-09-30 14:48:14 · answer #1 · answered by BRUCE D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is assuming that you are taking no other meds, here are antidiabetic drugs that are not associated with diarrhea as an adverse effect: Amaryl (glimepiride) and pioglitazone (Actos). I'm afraid I don't know what the cost of these is but your pharm tech or pharmacist can tell you.
Byetta (exenatide) has been approved for injection for blood glucose control. The most common adverse effect was nausea and it is associated with diarrhea as a less common adverse effect. Avandia (rosiglitazone) is associated with diarrhea. All others have diarrhea as a common or less common adverse effect and/or are sulfonylureas.
2006-09-29 19:52:47 · answer #2 · answered by TweetyBird 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-22 23:10:02 · answer #3 · answered by Brady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm...i was on metforim and it did me the same..
my doc switched me to byetta-its a twice daily injection pen (kinda like an epi-pen)
just talk to your doctor to see if there are any other alternatives--you could also seek a second opinion..just to see what would be thier input ( if at all possible)
2006-09-29 19:00:07 · answer #4 · answered by ajm_jr_2005 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i dont know if yahooanswer is the place to be asking this question, but the only other drug that i can think of is avandia
2006-09-29 19:03:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2006-09-30 03:17:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋