
10 Tips to Help You Take Your Diabetes Medications on Time
10 Tips to Help You Take Your Diabetes Medications on Time
To keep your blood sugar levels controlled, it's vital to take your diabetes medications as prescribed. Follow these strategies to ensure you take them on time, every time.
A pill box is just one of the many handy ways to make taking diabetes meds easier.
When Carol Gee, 67, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes nine years ago, she implemented a system to take her medications and never once veered off course. A retired inventory management specialist in the military and a teacher, Gee was familiar with the efficacy of regimens, so she knew sticking to a schedule would help ensure she would always take her diabetes medications as prescribed.
In the morning after she wakes up, showers, and brushes her teeth, Gee immediately takes Metformin (glucophage ), Victoza (liraglutide) , and a medication for high blood pressure. Depending on her fasting blood sugar, shell also take fast-acting insulin and eat within 15 minutes. At night, after she brushes her teeth, shell repeat the same process but replaces the fast-acting insulin with a long-lasting insulin.
Ive always been organized, and I believe that organization is also important when youre taking medication, she says, explaining that practice and repetition have enabled her to follow the plan.
Thanks to this routine, Gee is the exception: Between 38 and 93 percent of people with diabetes struggle to take their medications, according to a review published in June 2015 in Diabetes Medicine .
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