Metformin vs Tradjenta

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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.Linagliptin is used with a proper diet and exercise program and possibly with other medications to control high blood sugar. It is used by people with type 2 (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. Linagliptin is an anti-diabetic drug that works by increasing levels of natural substances called incretins. Incretins help to control blood sugar by increasing insulin release, especially after a meal. They also decrease the amount of sugar your liver makes. This medication should not be used to treat people with type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes).
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June | 16.06.13
I am not a fan of medication but have found this treatment necessary and effective.
guest | 16.06.13
nothing special
Silver | 14.06.13
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
NA | 13.06.13
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.
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huskyslady | 14.11.13
I have had hardly no side effects from this drug. if any has been a bit harder to go to sleep & not sure that's from the meds. {much less like Metformin where I was getting diarrhea & nausea}
vivamiami | 05.11.13
Useless, insurance Sunshine State Health made me use it instead of Victoza (which was the only medication that kept my blood sugar levels in control). All other drugs kept me somewhere between 130 and 190, with Tradjenta I'm always over 200.