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I intend to use this thread to record things about me, and my life as a t2 diabetic. This is really mostly for my own benefit, just a place to record my thoughts and experiences, which I expect will prove therapeutic to me.
I had a scheduled visit with my doctor yesterday and he and I were very pleased with the progress I have made since my last visit - I have brought my HbA1c down to 5.3%, which is an all time low for me. My weight is also down to 92kg, although my BMI still classes me as overweight - about 5 more kg to go before I am healthy weight.
At this rate I will be the healthiest looking unhealthy guy on the beach this summer!
Beginning of last December, after an extremely stressful period at work and a period of somewhat complacent approach towards my previously well controlled diabetes, I found myself with morning fasting glucose levels of almost three hundred mg/dl.
As well as reintroducing all the beneficial lifestyle changes I had previously successfully adopted but somehow allowed to fall by the wayside in my complacency, I went to see my doctor. His verdict was that it looked like my diabetes had progressed (not all progress is good!) and I needed something stronger to help me with it. So he prescribed twice daily Janumet 50/1000 instead of the 3 x 500mg of metformin I had been on to that point.
Janumet 50/1000 is a combination pill consisting of 50mg januvia ( sitagliptin, a PDP4 inhibitor) and 1000mg metformin.
Now I have been reading a number of things about PDP4 inhibitors, some of it good - the possibility that they may protect pancreatic beta cells, but a lot of it bad- the known risk of pancreatitis and the suspected links with pancreatic cancer and heart failure.
I explained to the doctor that given my progress I wanted to experiment with going back to a metformin only regime. I I explained that I was happier being on a long established drug like metformin than the newer and hence less proven to be safe drugs.
Luckily he agreed to let me try, monitor my sugar levels for thee weeks and then review the results with him to decide way forward. So this next three weeks I am even more commited to keeping on top of things and part of the reasonining behind this thread is to assist me in achieving this.
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I intend to use this thread to record things about me, and my life as a t2 diabetic. This is really mostly for my own benefit, just a place to record my thoughts and experiences, which I expect will prove therapeutic to me.
I had a scheduled visit with my doctor yesterday and he and I were very pleased with the progress I have made since my last visit - I have brought my HbA1c down to 5.3%, which is an all time low for me. My weight is also down to 92kg, although my BMI still classes me as overweight - about 5 more kg to go before I am healthy weight.
At this rate I will be the healthiest looking unhealthy guy on the beach this summer!
Beginning of last December, after an extremely stressful period at work and a period of somewhat complacent approach towards my previously well controlled diabetes, I found myself with morning fasting glucose levels of almost three hundred mg/dl.
As well as reintroducing all the beneficial lifestyle changes I had previously successfully adopted but somehow allowed to fall by the wayside in my complacency, I went to see my doctor. His verdict was that it looked like my diabetes had progressed (not all progress is good!) and I needed something stronger to help me with it. So he prescribed twice daily Janumet 50/1000 instead of the 3 x 500mg of metformin I had been on to that point.
Janumet 50/1000 is a combination pill consisting of 50mg januvia ( sitagliptin, a PDP4 inhibitor) and 1000mg metformin.
Now I have been reading a number of things about PDP4 inhibitors, some of it good - the possibility that they may protect pancreatic beta cells, but a lot of it bad- the known risk of pancreatitis and the suspected links with pancreatic cancer and heart failure.
I explained to the doctor that given my progress I wanted to experiment with going back to a metformin only regime. I I explained that I was happier being on a long established drug like metformin than the newer and hence less proven to be safe drugs.
Luckily he agreed to let me try, monitor my sugar levels for thee weeks and then review the results with him to decide way forward. So this next three weeks I am even more commited to keeping on top of things and part of the reasonining behind this thread is to assist me in achieving this.
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