Diabetic Drugs Are Progressive, Manual Control Is NOT

Being Diagnosed with diabetes is a surprise and you usually are not fully aware with what that means to you and the rest of your life.

The normal course of events is your doctor puts you on some prescription drug and then has you come back in a month to see if that got your levels down to tolerable..

You are given a prescription for a finger tip blood testing device and a prescription for a period to purchase test strips for it.

This is to show you how you are doing with controlling your sugar and they suggest you check several times per day.

You may be sent to a dietician to attend a course on learning how to eat as a diabetic.Medicare will pay up to $750.00 to teach you how to eat for the rest of your life.

You will be told you can essentially keep eating what you always ate, you will just to eat less of most and have to measure it out and keep track of the totals etc.

If the first set of pills did not keep your levels in reasonable shape you will then be prescribed some additional pills to take in addition, to cause your pancreas to make even higher levels of insulin to try to suppress the sugar you are eating, and you now may have over insulin levels from time to time suppressing sugar too much.

You then may go into "insulin shock" (pass out) from hypoglycemia...(too low blood sugar) and to get you back to full consciousness etc will have to get you a cookie etc.

You will have to see your doctor regularly because as time goes on the drugs will be come less and less effective and stronger and stronger prescriptions will need to be supplied, usually with greater and greater side effects.

You will be in bigger in bigger trouble if you forget or do not take your drugs as prescribed and you will have to have someone to "look after you" since you can not be trusted any more to take these prescriptions when required, or the right amounts of the right ones etc.

Eventually, you will be put on insulin shots as standard method of controlling your blood sugar. More and more often will be required and more and more potent insulin. Then insulin and drugs. Usually you wont make it this far.

They will not be the least interested in your insulin levels, that do all the other body damage, in fact they will likely be giving you drugs to increase demand on your pancreas already turning out four times normal typically to turn out more to force your blood sugar levels down.

Eventually your pancreas gives up under this duress and that's where you have to switch to insulin shots.

This is what we mean by progression. We obtained a copy from a medical convention (we wont tell you how we got it.) on the standard prescription progression and how much time between each switch up.

They tell you that you can expect 12 to 18 years off your life expectancy with the diagnosis of diabetes. We think with this treatment protocol that is about what you can expect.

We will not get into the side effects of these drugs nor the fact tens of thousands of diabetic patients have been listed as needlessly dying from FDA approved diabetic drugs, before the FDA eventually pulled them off the market.

Recently we reported on more side effects last issue about Actos shown to have a 77 increase in fractures in women, and even on the most popular most used diabetic prescription drug Metformin (with drawn from U.S. market for a year for side effects but reinstated when determined they were less then other drugs available.) Still banned in several countries because of adverse side effects.

Last issue we reported on Metformin (Gougaphage trade name) being associated with it causing a drop in B 12, (causing a deficiency) triggering periperheral neuropathy in diabetic patients.

If you read the side effects of the big new drugs being promoted as the latest and greatest, you would not believe anyone would take them at all but your doctor never tells you the side effects or even warn you there are any. (just one side effect for most is they cause weight gain).(not Meformin)

Therefore if you are going to be on prescriptions even temporarily until you learn to control your own diabetes, you are far better off, most advise, on long established drugs like Metformin, since the bad side effects have not all had a chance to show up on new drugs.

How Bad?

You get to be the test "rat"on new diabetes drugs. If you and enough other diabetics die early the FDA will first issue a black box warning, (doctors read that but still prescribe) warning saying there are some problems, but when the number gets big enough only then it will be withdrawn.

Trusting your doctor to give you the latest and greatest new diabetes drug being promoted on TV may not be the greatest suggestion.

We will only suggest that our web site is all about the alternative, taking control of your own diabetes.

If you have simple diet control etc where you do not ever need to rely on prescription drugs or insulin shots in the hip to control your diabetes, they can not send you to the rest home, because you forget to take your medications

Your author has been off prescriptions for five years is over 80 and doing everything 55 years olds are doing.

Also Saving Medicare over $10,000 a year.

Note: Diagrams are not scientifically accurate, but are approximations with editorial liberties taken to illustrate with visual comparisons.