Type 2 Diabetes Drug Therapy Effectiveness

[ticker7]

Hi,
I am new to this forum so apologies if this has question has been covered before, my question is " has there been any published research into the efficacy and effectiveness of the drug therapies used in treatment of type 2 diabetes?"

Does the metformin/insulin plus Statins plus blood pressure tablets been actually proven to work?

I was diagnosed with Type 2 in 1999, after 10 years of classic diabetes symptoms (neuropathies, tiredness, thirst, urinating more at night etc) and have seen 2 diabetes specialists, and I feel the drug therapies I have used (excepting the insulin component) have made me feel much worse.

Today I read an article about the US FDA giving warnings that statins accelerate patients into full diabetes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2109111/Statins-American-government-warns-statins-diabetes-risk-doesnt-British-regulator.html

I wonder the available therapies are just the best we have at this moment in time - but has anybody scientifically (and independently of the drug companies) assessed the efficacy of the therapies used?

Chris

 

[Osidge]

Hi Chris

Welcome to the forum. I hope you find it a useful place.

I am sorry to hear that you feel worse on the medications you have been prescribed for diabetes and other health issues. Many medications have side effects for some people but not others. You really need to talk to your healthcare professionals about how your medications make you feel as there are often other drug options. I have no side effects with the medications I take and they all achieve for me the health targets that I wanted to reach.

There are many studies that are undertaken to look at the efficacy of medications. A google search will usually bring them up. I was part of the ASCOT study for about 6 years which looked at blood pressure medications and statins. I am currently part of the Ascend study looking at Omega 3 and low-dose aspirin - another long-term study.

Take care

Doug

 

[ticker7]

Thanks Doug, sorry for the lateness of the reply but life has been challenging since this post. I wrote this post because of my frustrations with the apparent ineffectiveness of using Lantus and Novomix rapid over the last five years.

I now have a clear an concise answer which I will post called : At Last an Answer to apparent Insulin Therapy ineffectiveness over 5 years