Anyone using Vipidia/alogliptin with Libre 2? Plus side effects.

LittleGreyCat

LittleGreyCat

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I've just started taking alogliptin along with the metformin.

I'm still trying to work out if it has improved things, or perhaps just changed them.

On just Metformin I had a regular Dawn Phenomenon (DP) which stopped around 12:00 and then dropped back down for the rest of the day. Started climbing again after midnight.

My BG seems all over the place at the moment (not helped by the Libre 2 reading high) and I can't work out if it is due to a few Xmas treats or the extra drug.

One weird thing is that I seem to have a permanently sweet taste in my mouth (as if I had eaten a piece of cake or something). I don't remember this from before.

I haven't yet been on a cycle ride to see if I get the glucose spike from heavy exercise, but I was hoping alogliptin might reduce this.
We have been away and have missed our regular daily walks (although we did walk around town one day) so again I don't know if things have changed.

Can anyone remember what changed for them when they started alogliptin (or any other gliptin)?

Oh, and I've been feeling a bit queasy after eating but haven't pinned this down yet.
 
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LittleGreyCat

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Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
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Hmmmm....may have cut back on the DP but I need several days to confirm.
 
LittleGreyCat

LittleGreyCat

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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.
Update: it does seem to have changed my DP.
Previously it nearly always cut off at noon.
I am still seeing a rise overnight but it seems to start dropping again soon after I wake.
Let us see what happens long term.
 
LittleGreyCat

LittleGreyCat

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Still puzzling things out.
Yesterday my BG barely budged for 2 hours after a meal, even after a very naughty pud.
Some hours later (over night) it then rose steadily before dropping back down after 11.00.
Almost as if there was a delayed reaction.

This would not have been detected by a "before eating and 2 hours after 1st bite" test.
However a morning test of fasting BG would have been alarming.
 
LittleGreyCat

LittleGreyCat

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Type of diabetes
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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.
Just had an HbA1c.
Up to 7.1% from 7%.
Then again I have been very relaxed about my carbohydrate intake since Xmas.

So the additional medication has achieved what I hoped.
Ability to be less rigorous with low carbohydrate without a major impact on BG.

All I have to do now is explain to my health care team why my numbers are marginally worse after the second medication was introduced. :rolleyes:
 
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