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You have lots of options to manage diabetes. Food, exercise, and medication work together to bring your blood sugar under control.

Your doctor will help you figure out if you need to take medicine, which kind is right for you, and how often you should take it.

Over your lifetime, you'll probably handle your disease in different ways. Sometimes medications stop working, and you'll have to switch. You'll need to adjust to changes in your body as you age. And researchers are looking for new diabetes medicines and ways to treat it.

Type 2 Diabetes Treatments and Medications
M edications are often the first kind of medicine people with type 2 diabetes try when diet and exercise alone aren't enough to keep their blood sugar in a healthy range. There are many of them, and they work in different ways.

Biguanides. This group includes metformin, one of the most commonly used drugs to treat diabetes. It tells your liver to hang on to some of the glucose it makes.
Meglitinides and sulfonylureas. These medications tell your pancreas to make more insulin.
DPP-4 inhibitors keep your body from breaking down hormones that give your pancreas the "go" signal for insulin. This means they work longer when you need to lower your blood sugar after a meal.
Thiazolidinediones, TZDs, or glitazones. These medicines help insulin work better. They lower insulin resistance from your cells so your pancreas doesn't have to work as hard.
Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors slow the digestion of food with complex carbohydrates like bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, and corn. This keeps your blood sugar from shooting up after you eat.
SGLT2 inhibitors work by letting your kidneys pee out extra sugar.
Bile acid sequestrants lower your cholesterol and can also help lower your blood glucose.
You can take these medications by themselves or in combination with others, including insulin. Some pills have more than one kind of drug.
Dopamine receptor agonists work directly on the brain to help it process dopamine. This, in turn, can increase your sensitivity to insulin so your body doesn't need as much of it. Those taking dopamine receptor agonists should also implement some lifestyle changes such as a healthy diet and exercise for the medication to be more effective.
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The 123 means two more pages of so many ways to treat type 2 - Insulin cleary is a Page 2 method to treat - Mostly for people who are probably lazy and will not diet and exercise (Yes Judgemental on my part) and notice if you LookC - Even on page 2 Insulin is towards the bottom NOT the Top of the page.