Metformin vs Pioglitazone
 | Metformin |  | Pioglitazone |  |
| Metformin is used with a proper diet and exercise program and possibly with other medications to control high blood sugar. It is used in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes). Controlling high blood sugar helps prevent kidney damage, blindness, nerve problems, loss of limbs, and sexual function problems. Proper control of diabetes may also lessen your risk of a heart attack or stroke. Metformin works by helping to restore your body's proper response to the insulin you naturally produce. It also decreases the amount of sugar that your liver makes and that your stomach/intestines absorb. | Pioglitazone is an anti-diabetic drug (thiazolidinedione-type, also called "glitazones") used along with a proper diet and exercise program to control high blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes). It works by helping to restore your body's proper response to insulin, thereby lowering your blood sugar. Controlling high blood sugar helps prevent kidney damage, blindness, nerve problems, loss of limbs, and sexual function problems. Proper control of diabetes may also lessen your risk of a heart attack or stroke. Pioglitazone is used either alone or in combination with other anti-diabetic medications (such as metformin or a sulfonylurea such as glyburide). This medication should not be used to treat people with type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes). Talk to your doctor about the risks and benefits of pioglitazone. | |||
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| Add Metformin review I am not a fan of medication but have found this treatment necessary and effective. nothing special Severe stomach pain, extreme diarrea, tired all the time foggy brain can't think clearly, I'm on 2- 1000 pills a day , blood sugar still high now I'm on insulin can't deal with the stomach pain was told my kidneys are failing don't know what to do next Metformin eliminated my d2 symptoms in a couple of hours and has had no apparent side effects or nasty interactions with my other meds. It's generic, which means affordable, and does a good job of keeping my numbers around 120-130. | Add Pioglitazone review It works well for me.Maintains blood sugar below 150 with proper diet to control diabetes type2 It helps keep my sugars down better then any other drug out there! Up to now the only symptom is a feeling of Nausea after about 2 hrs of taking the drug | |||
