-
Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »
If you could choose a glp-1 or insulin to treat your condition what would it be ?
- Thread starter DarrenW29
- Start Date
- Messages
- 4,392
- Location
- Suffolk, UK
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/201...rug-ozempic-now-available-in-uk-93805654.html
This is something that I have been thinking long and hard about.
Ozempic is described as an alternative to Metformin in the article linked here.
I seem to be fine with Metformin.
It is also described as an aid to losing weight.
I am normal BMI.
O.K. I would like to take off half a stone but losing weight is not the main aim of any drug for me.
It can kick your pancreas in an unfavourable way which is not an attractive proposition.
Oh, you don't say what you are currently taking or why you may need to move on.
My current view is that, as I seem to be mainly suffering from an extended dawn phenomenon, is that a small dose of insulin first thing in the morning might be the most sensible option.
I often go low in the early hours so I wouldn't want overnight insulin.
I don't want to have to inject, but if I did then one injection in the morning might be a reasonable way to go.
I also go low in the morning I just run high all day until pre bed I’m prescribed metformin
that’s what’s scary the pancreas issues it can cause especially inflammation
- Messages
- 4,392
- Location
- Suffolk, UK
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
I do much the opposite.
I go high in the morning (sometimes very high) but go back down to normal after noon (or thereabouts) and can go low in the evening.
Have you considered other options?
You can take oral medication to make you wee out sugar.
I assume that you have done all you can on the eating front?
That is, no or very few carbohydrates.
Yeah I read lots of threats before joining the forum but I read of someone having a heart attack 2 years later starting the medication just scary I don’t know what to do next
On my eating I’m trying to maintain weight but I’m still consuming carbs maybe I need to rethink this
- Messages
- 4,392
- Location
- Suffolk, UK
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
The first rule is to get your BG down.
Then you can worry about weight.
Low carb eating (plus replacing calories with protein and fat) is well worth a try.
Relearning what is healthy for a T2 is also a bit of a struggle at times.
Who would have thought lots of fat could be good for you?
