So has the actual number of tablets increased or has the dosage increased?
Both. I originally started on gliclazide, one in the morning. I'm now on one in the morning, one at night. I then started on metformin, one in the morning, one at night. I'm now on two morning, two lunchtime and two at night. And I've just started on pioglitazone, one in the morning. So, yes, the quantities, the amount of the drugs and the strength of them has increased over the last fifteen years, you know. So, very slowly but very surely, just to keep the blood sugars back to where they should have been. So, yes.
And the more recent change has been how long ago?
Two weeks ago. I've had the pioglitazone. They've introduced that one into it. So, because they increased the metformin and the gliclazide, and that really didn't have the desired effect. So, yes, you know, I think they call it tri, you know, tri something or other, so, you know, i.e. three, triple dosage. So, yes.
It didn't have the desired effect meaning it didn't…?
Didn't bring the blood sugars down. Yes, because they did a HbA1c, which gives them the average. And it had come down, but not, it was still at 10. So, yes, they needed to put another drug in there to see if that's going to work. So, and hence I have to go back for another blood test and they'll see then if it's working or not. So, I think it is, because the daily checks I'm doing have come down. So, you know, and that's, the daily checks you can do your with your blood meter, that's not an accurate thing, not like the HbA1c that they do. So, yes. But it gives you a good idea. |
