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Buy Actos
If you are buying Actos for the first time, start with a small amount to make sure that drug works for you and then order more later.
If you have been taking this medicine for a while and will continue to take it regularly, buy as much Actos as you can at once.
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Actos
Actos contains the active ingredient pioglitazone hydrochloride, which is a type of medicine called a thiazolidinedione or glitazone.
It is used to help control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes.
People with diabetes have a deficiency or absence of a hormone produced by the pancreas called insulin.
Insulin is the main hormone responsible for the control of sugar in the blood.
In type 2 diabetes the pancreas does not produce sufficient insulin and the cells of the body are resistant to the low levels of insulin circulating in the blood.
Insulin would normally make the cells remove sugar from the blood, hence in type 2 diabetes blood sugar levels can rise too high.
Actos helps to lower blood glucose levels by increasing the sensitivity of liver, fat and muscle cells, to insulin.
This enables the cells to remove glucose from the blood more effectively.
Actos also reduces the amount of glucose produced by the liver, and preserves the functioning of the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.
The overall effect of this medicine is therefore to help the body control blood sugar levels and prevent them becoming too high.
Actos can be used on its own to treat people with type 2 diabetes, particularly overweight people, whose blood sugar is not sufficiently controlled by diet and exercise alone, and who cannot take Glucophage.
Glucophage (metformin) is the standard first-line medicine for overweight people with type 2 diabetes inadequately controlled by diet.
Pioglitazone can also be used in combination with metformin or another type of antidiabetic medicine known as a sulphonylurea, eg gliclazide, or both, for people with type 2 diabetes whose blood sugar is not controlled by the maximum doses of these medicines.
It can also be used in combination with insulin for type 2 diabetics whose blood sugar is not sufficiently controlled by insulin and who cannot take metformin.
Dosage
Adults
The recommended starting dose of Actos is 15-30 mg daily.
If this fails to bring your blood sugar under control, the dose can be increased to a maximum of 45 mg a day.
If your blood sugar still remains high, the doctor may add a second medication.
When Actos is added to other diabetes medications, your doctor may need to lower their dosage if you develop low blood sugar.
If you are taking insulin, the dose should be lowered when blood sugar readings fall below 100.
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