Managing diabetes with medication

Sometimes lifestyle changes alone aren’t enough or possible for some people, and in these cases medication is often used to help improve the control of type 2 diabetes. There are many medications out there that help control blood glucose levels, all of those working in different ways. It is important to know what medication you are taking as well as some of the possible side effects these medications can have.

In this section we will discuss common medications, and what you need to know about them.  Not all of the information on the next page may be relevant to you, so it might be worth at this point checking to see what medications you are currently taking, and just looking at the appropriate sections for you.

Click on the first topic ‘What do I need to know about medications’ below to get started.