What is "Combination Treatment for Diabetes Mellitus"?

What is “Combination Treatment for Diabetes Mellitus”?

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus are often prescribed glucose-lowering tablets and insulin at the same time. The combination of these two antidiabetic drugs is called combination therapy for diabetes. Let's say you have type 2 diabetes and take the maximum allowable dose of medication - for example, 4 Maninil tablets per day. Despite this, blood sugar levels remain high.

And there are already late complications of diabetes. Then the doctor will definitely offer you injections of small doses of insulin. For example, one injection of long-acting insulin in the morning. This injection can be supplemented with a short-acting insulin injection. The pills are left for the evening.

Of course, there is a possibility that over time you will be completely switched to insulin. But don’t be upset in advance: who knows when this will happen, and whether it will happen at all. In the meantime, just one or two injections, from which you will immediately feel the benefits.