If you have been diagnosed with Diabetes Type 2, the probability of using oral medication to control it is impossible to avoid.

There are several oral medications that you can be prescribed by your physician and you are to take on a regular basis or as needed to control your sugar.   However, you need to be aware that some of this medications have some serious side effects that can endanger your life.  Especially, if you are taking Glucovance.

Glucovance not only will promote the level of sugar to go so low that you can end up with hypoglaucemia, but has a host of other very deadly consequences.  Therefore, I highly recommend that as with any other medication, you ask your doctor what the side effects of this medication can be.

If the "bad" side effects are not bad enough, please remember that Diabetes Type 2 has the tendency to make you gain weight and retain fluids.  Moreover, Glucovance will add additional pounds and promote the retention of more fluids.  Even though it is a good medication to control Diabetes Type 2, you need to be aware that there are other medications that are less rough for you.

When my doctor first prescribed Glucovance for me, I started taking it without paying too much attention to the side effects.  The only one I have suffered from is more extra weight and more retention of fluids.  While my last visit to my doctor, and after I have done research on the drug, I requested my doctor to be switched to Glucophage.

Glucophage has its side effects but are not as bad as those experienced by Glucovance.  And what attracted me the most to Glucophage is that does not add weight to an already overweight body and does not promote retention of fluids to a body that is already retaining enough fluids for three people.  As a matter of fact, I also found out that Glucophage helps to reduce the extra weight we are already carrying.

You also have the option of combining either one of these drugs (separately) with insulin to control your Diabetes.  However, make completely and totally sure that you have covered all your basics with your doctor and he has taken more than the three minutes they spend with you, giving you not only your options, but the side effects and benefits of the medication he is prescribing you.  If you want to have some information before visiting your physician for any drug for Diabetes, please visit: http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1680.51075.  It gives you information on these two drugs and many, many more.

As usual, I strongly recommend that we keep ourselves well informed on what is what we are going through, and what are the side effects of the drugs we are giving to control the illness.  It is the responsibility of the physician to keep you healthy, but it is our responsibility to ensure that he does.

For more complete information on the side effects of Glucovance and/or Glucophage, please go to:  WebMd