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You’re eating healthy, keeping active, and taking your diabetes medication. But your A1C is still too high. Maybe it’s time to talk to your doctor about TRADJENTA—a once-canela diabetes pill added to your treatment plan that could help lower your A1C. Has TRADJENTA been studied for heart risk?

Helps Lower Blood Sugar In clinical studies of patients with type 2 diabetes, TRADJENTA lowered blood sugar, leading to a lower A1C level. Fits Your Meal Schedule TRADJENTA can be taken with or without food. Managing your blood sugar could mean a lower A1C for you. TRADJENTA is a prescription medicine that is used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. TRADJENTA is not for people with type 1 diabetes.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION What is the most important information I should know about TRADJENTA? Before you start taking TRADJENTA, tell your healthcare provider if you have ever had pancreatitis, gallstones, a history of alcoholism, or high triglyceride levels. The pain may be felt going from your abdomen through to your back. The pain may happen with or without vomiting. These may be symptoms of pancreatitis. Do not take TRADJENTA if you are allergic to linagliptin or any of the ingredients in TRADJENTA. If you have any of these symptoms, stop taking TRADJENTA and call your healthcare provider right away or go to the nearest hospital emergency room.

What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking TRADJENTA? Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. TRADJENTA may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how TRADJENTA works. Tell your healthcare provider if you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant or are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. What are the possible side effects of TRADJENTA? If you take TRADJENTA with another medicine that can cause low blood sugar, such as a sulfonylurea or insulin, your risk of getting low blood sugar is higher.

The dose of your sulfonylurea medicine or insulin may need to be lowered while you take TRADJENTA. Signs and symptoms of low blood sugar may include headache, drowsiness, weakness, dizziness, confusion, irritability, fast heartbeat, sweating, shaking or feeling jittery. TRADJENTA, may develop joint pain that can be severe. Call your healthcare provider if you have severe joint pain. Some people who take medicines called DPP-4 inhibitors like TRADJENTA, may develop a skin reaction called bullous pemphigoid which can be serious and may need to be treated in a hospital. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you develop blisters. Heart failure means your heart does not pump blood well enough.