A Few Things about Diabetes Medicine
If you take diabetes pills or insulin injections to control your diabetes, ask your health care provider to
explain how these work. It’s important to know how and when to take diabetes medicine. If you take
other medicines that are sold with or without a prescription, ask your doctor how these can affect your
diabetes control. When you take insulin injections or diabetes pills, your blood glucose levels can get
too low.
If you inject insulin, your health care team should be able to tell you
How to give yourself injections.
When you need to change your insulin dose.
Keeping Track of Your Blood Glucose
It’s important to your health to control your blood glucose (also called blood sugar). Keeping your
glucose level close to normal helps prevent or delay some diabetes problems, such as eye disease,
kidney disease, and nerve damage. One thing that can help you control your glucose level is to keep
track of it. You can do this by
Testing your own glucose a number of times each day (self-monitoring blood glucose). Many people
with diabetes test their glucose 2 to 4 times a day.
Getting an A1C test from your health care provider about every 3 months.
You’ll learn more about these tests on the next pages. These tests can help you and the rest of your
diabetes health care team—doctor, diabetes educator, and others—work together to help you control
your blood glucose.
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