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<blockquote data-quote="Streety" data-source="post: 1399100" data-attributes="member: 219343"><p>Hi Q, sorry for not replying sooner. Life (and mothering) has been busy!</p><p></p><p>There are a lot of people on the forum who believe going on insulin early is the best treatment and I put a lot of stock in this forum.</p><p></p><p>My personal experience with my endocrinologist is that my BS levels are not high enough to warrant insulin. He feels if I lose more weight I will be off forxiga and just remain on victoza. His opinion and research is that victoza gives the beta cells a "rest" and encourages the beta cells to regenerate. This is controversial. Interestingly, my endo came to medicine through a chemistry degree first which I appreciate as he does not prescribe from a text book. He looks at clinical effects and research as well as results in his patients. </p><p></p><p>In no way am I invalidating the personal experiences of others on this forum. This is just my experience and more information for you to put in the mixing pot. </p><p></p><p>Try not to be scared of insulin. I will get to that point someday. I am more scared of not looking after myself and losing my eyesight. I inject victoza once a day and I injected insulin when pregnant. It's not something you'd do if you didn't have to but it is not the most horrible thing in this life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Streety, post: 1399100, member: 219343"] Hi Q, sorry for not replying sooner. Life (and mothering) has been busy! There are a lot of people on the forum who believe going on insulin early is the best treatment and I put a lot of stock in this forum. My personal experience with my endocrinologist is that my BS levels are not high enough to warrant insulin. He feels if I lose more weight I will be off forxiga and just remain on victoza. His opinion and research is that victoza gives the beta cells a "rest" and encourages the beta cells to regenerate. This is controversial. Interestingly, my endo came to medicine through a chemistry degree first which I appreciate as he does not prescribe from a text book. He looks at clinical effects and research as well as results in his patients. In no way am I invalidating the personal experiences of others on this forum. This is just my experience and more information for you to put in the mixing pot. Try not to be scared of insulin. I will get to that point someday. I am more scared of not looking after myself and losing my eyesight. I inject victoza once a day and I injected insulin when pregnant. It's not something you'd do if you didn't have to but it is not the most horrible thing in this life. [/QUOTE]
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