Mijas_pueblo_
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I was on Trulicity for 6 months . It did not suit me at all. I injected every Wednesday afternoon, by Thursday night chronic dioreah for several hours. This went on for weeks.Morning all,
I went to see an Endo consultant a while back. The upshot was that she wanted me to go onto Trulicity injections and was going to tell my GP to arrange it. Now, I went to see the GP and said that I'm not interested having looked at the side effects and we agreed to see what my next review showed. Sadly that showed the my a1c was up - I knew it would be as I was getting readings of 12~18 most of the time. Not too sure why, but whatever I did diet wise made no difference. I did wonder if my pancreas is finally giving up....
Anyway, I was told that if I couldn't get the numbers down in 3 months we'd have to look at insulin. In the meantime I went back to the consultant who asked how the Trulicity was going? and she wan't too impressed when I said I wan't on it. The consultant has now written to my GP again and I have been asked to go in to "discuss".
I really don't want to go on it, but I have to accept that it may be the only way. But, before I make the appt I'm going back to low carb/keto basics. I'm going to give it 2 weeks and see if I can get the numbers falling again. If so then I know I can sort it. If not then I may have to reluctantly take the meds offered..... sigh.
Eventually took myself off of Trulicity.
I use a low carb diet, but not keto. My Consultant said no to Keto as we still need some carbs. Keto too drastic .
Now off of Trulicity a lot healthier and happy.