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- Type of diabetes
- I reversed my Type 2
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- Diet only
@mrspuddleduck this is exactly what happened to me. My blood sugars were 7 on admission to hospital but my ketones were 5++++ and my blood PH was 7.0 which is classed as a medical emergency. This is why this drug is dangerous. I was very nearly sent home and it was only because an on call GP was worried about the ketones that they begrudgingly admitted me to the ward for further blood tests. The blood sugar readings can mask the damage the drug is doing behind the scenes. I know I keep banging on about it but all the manufacturer has to do is recommend to prescribers that ketone test strips are given to patients at least for the first 2-4 weeks taking the medicine.
If the issues were uncovered a couple of weeks after you started on the meds, and you were ill within 4 weeks of starting the drug (forgive me if I misunderstand that part), how was the manufacturer supposed to tell you about the issue? How would they know you were taking it? Again, I come back to the prescriber; only they would know, at that stage what you had been prescribed.
Again I say I think you have been extremely unlucky in a couple of areas, which doesn't take away from the fact that you became very ill and are (naturally) angry about that.
I'm not an unsympathetic person. I'm just reading what you are telling me in this thread, but I'll comment no further.