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14.3 this morning, started taking the full dose of victoza last night, no side effects so far , apart from headache which may be down to need to drink more water as since coming off dapagliflozin, IV stopped getting up twice a night to pee [emoji2]

Mine was 17.7 this morning, going to full dose of victoza tonight so hoping that it will come down

14.3 this morning rising to 16, 2 hours after breakfast, 3rd day of injecting victoza [emoji45]

I buy my testing strips as they wont supply them but now iv started to inject, have got a new meter and 50 strips, have got 4 meters, 1 is a contour that iv had for years, got 2 contour usb meters that never agree with each other and the new meter is also a contour that takes same strips as the...

I don't bother with 1st thing in a morning, usually do 1 around 9.15 (coffee time) and it around 16 to 19, dinnertime usually drops to around 10 to 13 and teatime is usually down to 7

Went on a low carb diet from jan to march and hba stayed the same as previous 1 at end of year, even tried the 800 calories day and put weight on, cannot for the life of me get below 87kg, will be interesting to see how i get on on the victoza

I was on simvastatin when i got 1st diagnosed, ok for about 3 years then started to get pain in my hip, got to the stage that i struggled to bend, stopped taking the simvastatin and a couple of weeks later, the pain disappeared, couple of years later, was talked into taking atorvastatin, which...

Hi all, Havent been on here for a good while, Really struggling at the moment, last 2 hbas have been 10.2 in March was taken off dapagliflozin and put on canagliflozin, within 3 days my sugars had gone through the roof, anything between 17 and 25 , phoned nurse who said go back on...

Haven't been here for a while, fasting this morning was 13.2, Seen a new diabetic nurse yesterday, have now been put on victoza, given 2 pens and no needles , instead got given lancets to prick your finger

Felt good, that was the problem, blaming the white bread in the system as 13.1 this morning, got hba in 2 weeks and the nurse in 3, on a different pill combo as well

Not sure what happened to mine this morning, 22.9 Did have white bread at the weekend

Mine was 8.3 this morning which is very good, been really struggling as most mornings, was around 15, trip to the Dr's and ended up on sitagliptin, sugars are now dropping well

Went to see the nurse for my 3month check up and hba1c done, Got on the scales and have lost 2stone in 3month, my nurse said she was amazed by my weight loss and said if I keep going it may be possible to reverse my diabetes, blood pressure was excellent but she wasn't quite so happy when I told...

I find that if I have cereals for breakfast, my sugar level goes high 7s to 8s but if I stay with porridge with the tablespoon of cinnamon I vary rarely go past 6, Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

don't worry Viv, i will be taking my meter with me when i go to see the nurse as she probably wont believe me, when i stopped taking the tolbutamide, the bg started to go into the high 5's, low 6's, so started taking them again and back down to the 4's