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Jardiance 10mg Tablets . ( empagliflozin ) Advise.

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My doctor has prescripted me 10 mg of Jardiance Tablets along two tablets of Metformin per day for Type 2.
Has everyone taken these tablets and what are your experiences.
Any advise would be welcome.
Thanks
 
Justfish said:
My doctor has prescripted me 10 mg of Jardiance Tablets along two tablets of Metformin per day for Type 2.
Has everyone taken these tablets and what are your experiences.
Any advise would be welcome.
Thanks
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My personal experience of its bigger brother Dapagliflozin was a severe viral UTI (Candida Albicans) that needed a very strong antibiotic to deal with it, and it did npthing for my sugar levels. Repeated a few years later, and I suffered grievious flatulence and constipation like wot I have never experienced in my life before, This in turn gave me anal fissures that threatened to become infected and go gangrenous (Fournieres Gangrene) so I stopped it even though my GP and my heart consultant both wanted me to continue. I make up my own medi-wallets, so easy to stop taking it. The flatulance remains to this day and my gut still has not recovered.

There is a section in the Forum for this class of meds, and the following post is important

SGLT2 inhibitors: updated advice on the risk of diabetic ketoacidosis

I have on several occasions asked forum posters who are using this family of diabetes medication if their prescriber has discussed the symptoms of DKA with them in regard to this family of medications. So far none has replied that this happened, so I am starting this thread with the current...
www.diabetes.co.uk www.diabetes.co.uk
 
Justfish said:
My doctor has prescripted me 10 mg of Jardiance Tablets along two tablets of Metformin per day for Type 2.
Has everyone taken these tablets and what are your experiences.
Any advise would be welcome.
Thanks
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Jardiance worked well for me at first. Blood sugars were amazing. Then I did a stupid thing and ate fewer carbs and ended up in DKA with normal sugars, yes you can go into DKA with perfect blood sugar levels, and this tablet does come with the leaflet so definitely read it.
It turns out I am not type 2 and I’m LADA or 1.5 slowly trickling to type 1.
So the only advice I can give you from my own personal experience and the advice of the doctors is DO NOT eat a low carb diet on these tablets, it’s not safe.
 
Dudette1 said:
Jardiance worked well for me at first. Blood sugars were amazing. Then I did a stupid thing and ate fewer carbs and ended up in DKA with normal sugars, yes you can go into DKA with perfect blood sugar levels, and this tablet does come with the leaflet so definitely read it.
It turns out I am not type 2 and I’m LADA or 1.5 slowly trickling to type 1.
So the only advice I can give you from my own personal experience and the advice of the doctors is DO NOT eat a low carb diet on these tablets, it’s not safe.
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Indeed there is this possiblilty of DKA, and the low carb with a glucose lowering drug combination will tend to trigger it if you are insulin deficient. But is probably safe enough if you have good insulin output. The trouble is that the NICE guidelines and treatment pathways do not call for any form of test to measure insulin output prior to any drug prescription so we enter the treatment path blindly. So the warning becomes a catch all for all circumstances. Sadly, DKA will probably be the outcome with this med even with Eatwell diet if you are insulin insufficient. The medication in that case may extend the honeymoon period but will not prevent the possibility of DKA.
 
I was on it for a while but it appeared to have no affect on my blood sugars so was changed to something else
 
I was prescribed Empagliflozin a good few years ago and since then have had several bouts of thrush and two severe UTIs which have ended up with me being hospitalised. Last time in hospital, I was advised by medical team to withdraw the Empagliflozin due to it flooding my urine with sugar, a haven for bacteria. Been off it a week now and if anything my blood tests appear more normal with no increase in blood sugar. I am not recommending stopping the drug to anyone, this is just my story of its use.
 
I have tried Jardiance 10 mg last year but unfortunately had to stop taking it because I had a serious reaction - shortness of breath and my throat feels like closing.
 
My doctor recently prescribed Jardiance 10mg because I have CKD and I'm prediabetic. With all the serious side effects of this drug, I'm nervous to take it. Anyone here with CKD on this drug?
 
I've had this and several other variations. In each case I ended up with severe thrush.
 
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