| Bottom Line/HEALTH: | | Why am I gaining weight from my diabetes medication? |
| Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD | | You know diabetes medications, many of them stimulate the pancreas, which is a gland inside your belly that produces insulin. Insulin is a growth hormone, so it causes you to gain weight. Insulin takes the fat and puts the fat inside the fat cell, so people gain weight. |
| Bottom Line: | | Which are some of the medications that are the worst for weight gain? |
| Hamdy: | | Unfortunately, it is insulin. Although insulin is needed for more people with diabetes—of course, all type I, but a big number of type 2 as well. Insulin can cause significant weight gain. |
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| Bottom Line: | | Which are some of the medications that are the worst for weight gain? |
| Hamdy: | | Medication like glyburide, glipizide glimepiride, Actos, Avandia. All those cause significant weight gain. |
| Hamdy: | | Unfortunately, it is insulin. Although insulin is needed for more people with diabetes—of course, all type I, but a big number of type 2 as well. Insulin can cause significant weight gain. |
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