Hi All!
I wonder if someone can help ... I am a 50 year old, type 2, very overweight, diagnosed since 2004. Caused through fifteen years of living in hotels, travelling 1000 miles a week, being a career girl, until April 2004 when everything seemed to collapse a bit! Have been on oral medication since, and until about six months ago, my blood sugars were usually around the 7's. Have never been good at looking after myself ... and hate to admit I have something wrong with me. "After all diabetes is common and lots of people have it ... " Sorry guys, believe me, I empathise with everyone else, just prefer to be there for others rather than sharing too much about me!!! :? Yes, I heard you ... yet another complex female!!
Anyway, about six months ago my BS started going up and down ... mostly up, and the doc and nurse started talking about insulin, as I was already on Metformin with Roziglitazone plus Gliclazide twice a day. However, last Thursday started Byetta 5mg plus 4 x 500mg Metformin once a day. BS on Thursday ranged from 24 to 19 ... Friday 18 to 15 ... Saturday 17, 18 & 19 ... yesterday 16, 19 and 15 ... this morning 17, lunchtime 19. Have not eaten a lot at all. Mornings bowl of melon and fat free yogurt, lunch a wholemeal pitta with tuna ... or a bowl of soup and a pitta ... evenings a chop or something like, veg and a couple of new potatoes. No snacks ... not feeling hungry at all ... gone down from 17st 1lb Thursday to 16st 10lb this morning. Saturday spent the day at a working test with dog ... plenty of exercise ... really struggled. Really feeling exhausted continuously, but since Friday have had little sleep due to feeling agitated, butterflies in tummy, brain going from one thing to another, but not being able to remember one word from another!!! Only slight nausea ... that I can handle ... not feeling hungry (Great!).
Now because I often appear as if I am quite intelligent, and tend to bluff things out, I don't want to appear stupid and waste my nurse's time for any stupid little thing that really is probably common when first on Byetta ... can anyone with experience, please tell me if this is all pretty much as it should be?
Please bear with me ... first experience of discussion forums, too!
Thanks
Kim
I wonder if someone can help ... I am a 50 year old, type 2, very overweight, diagnosed since 2004. Caused through fifteen years of living in hotels, travelling 1000 miles a week, being a career girl, until April 2004 when everything seemed to collapse a bit! Have been on oral medication since, and until about six months ago, my blood sugars were usually around the 7's. Have never been good at looking after myself ... and hate to admit I have something wrong with me. "After all diabetes is common and lots of people have it ... " Sorry guys, believe me, I empathise with everyone else, just prefer to be there for others rather than sharing too much about me!!! :? Yes, I heard you ... yet another complex female!!
Anyway, about six months ago my BS started going up and down ... mostly up, and the doc and nurse started talking about insulin, as I was already on Metformin with Roziglitazone plus Gliclazide twice a day. However, last Thursday started Byetta 5mg plus 4 x 500mg Metformin once a day. BS on Thursday ranged from 24 to 19 ... Friday 18 to 15 ... Saturday 17, 18 & 19 ... yesterday 16, 19 and 15 ... this morning 17, lunchtime 19. Have not eaten a lot at all. Mornings bowl of melon and fat free yogurt, lunch a wholemeal pitta with tuna ... or a bowl of soup and a pitta ... evenings a chop or something like, veg and a couple of new potatoes. No snacks ... not feeling hungry at all ... gone down from 17st 1lb Thursday to 16st 10lb this morning. Saturday spent the day at a working test with dog ... plenty of exercise ... really struggled. Really feeling exhausted continuously, but since Friday have had little sleep due to feeling agitated, butterflies in tummy, brain going from one thing to another, but not being able to remember one word from another!!! Only slight nausea ... that I can handle ... not feeling hungry (Great!).
Now because I often appear as if I am quite intelligent, and tend to bluff things out, I don't want to appear stupid and waste my nurse's time for any stupid little thing that really is probably common when first on Byetta ... can anyone with experience, please tell me if this is all pretty much as it should be?
Please bear with me ... first experience of discussion forums, too!
Thanks
Kim