Hi I heard something on T.V. last night , a warning about taking this product, which I take everyday, I also read that a type 1 shouldn't take it. Do you know anything?
Taking invokana
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Haven't seen anything on TV but warnings have been around for a while.
http://injurylawyer-news.com/invokana-side-effects/
Another poster alerted us to a life threatening episode that they had with a drug in the same group.
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/warning-if-taking-foxiga-dapiflagifloxin.80481/
Your profile says that you are a Type1. I understood this medication was for Type2s?
http://injurylawyer-news.com/invokana-side-effects/
Another poster alerted us to a life threatening episode that they had with a drug in the same group.
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/warning-if-taking-foxiga-dapiflagifloxin.80481/
Your profile says that you are a Type1. I understood this medication was for Type2s?
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There have been quite a few reports of people with T1 taking it. I think it is off label ie not licensed for type 1. There has been an exploratory trial of it though.
Some reports of using it
http://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/t2-diabetes-pee-drug-for-type-1#3
http://asweetlife.org/feature/invokana-helps-my-type-1-diabetes/
the trial
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/07/dc13-2955.abstract
But incidences of DKA that have happened with this drug may well be associated with insufficient insulin so obviously that puts Type 1s at risk if they don't inject enough (and of course insulin needs can vary from day to day)
This may also be the case with type 2 as it has occurred when people have an infection (so need to produce more insulin) or when they have reduced calories and or carbs and so are producing less insulin or indeed have actually been undiagnosed T1s.There might be other causes here too. *
Here's some advice about taking it from a T1 perspective. But you should really discuss it with the person who prescribed it.
https://myglu.org/articles/off-labe...or-type-1-diabetes-during-cold-and-flu-season
general DKA and Invokana/Foxiga
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/844754
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/156...-as-sglt2-inhibitors-and-risk-of-ketoacidosis
The only published case study I could find (not T1)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jdi.12330/pdf
Some reports of using it
http://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/t2-diabetes-pee-drug-for-type-1#3
http://asweetlife.org/feature/invokana-helps-my-type-1-diabetes/
the trial
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/07/dc13-2955.abstract
But incidences of DKA that have happened with this drug may well be associated with insufficient insulin so obviously that puts Type 1s at risk if they don't inject enough (and of course insulin needs can vary from day to day)
This may also be the case with type 2 as it has occurred when people have an infection (so need to produce more insulin) or when they have reduced calories and or carbs and so are producing less insulin or indeed have actually been undiagnosed T1s.There might be other causes here too. *
Here's some advice about taking it from a T1 perspective. But you should really discuss it with the person who prescribed it.
https://myglu.org/articles/off-labe...or-type-1-diabetes-during-cold-and-flu-season
general DKA and Invokana/Foxiga
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/844754
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/156...-as-sglt2-inhibitors-and-risk-of-ketoacidosis
The only published case study I could find (not T1)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jdi.12330/pdf
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