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Hi Dinky, The advice from Eli Lilly (who make Byetta) is that any other medication should be taken at least an hour before your Byetta injection. That way the Byetta will not interfere with the way the other medication works.

Re: Anyone use Byetta? Hi Tabnoakes, I have contacts in the US who have been on Byetta for more than 4 years now and they have reached their target weight and have stable BS. What most are finding is that they no longer need other meds (like metformin) and don't need to be so strict about...

Hi lyndsaychocolate and welcome to you. I rather suspect that either your doctor knows very little about diabetes medication, or more likely is simply trying to cut down costs. Firstly 500mg of slow-release is NOT the equivalent of 2000mg of normal metformin. To get the same effectectiveness...

Hi Lesley and welcome to the forum. It sounds like you have learned the hard way that the biggest influence on your diabetes is not the medication but what you eat - or in your case what you didn't eat! Blood sugar is created by the carbohydrates that you eat. Your digestive system converts...

Re: Anyone use Byetta? Although the nausea can come back on moving up to the 10mcg dose, for most people it tends to be less severe and/or last for less time than on the 5mcg dose. The hardest thing seems to be for our bodies to become acclimatised to Byetta in the first place. It seems to be...

Hi Alf, You are right in that a small rise for a short time isn't going to do any lasting damage, but something to remember is that once your liver has started producing glucose, the only thing that will stop it is to eat something. So the longer you go between rising and breakfast then the...

You can pretty much guarantee that if medical science ever perfects a potion that will increase life expectancy to 150 years for all but 1% of the population, the headlines would be "thousands will die early!"

Re: Anyone use Byetta? Hi Trulee, That's good news. I wouldn't worry too much about not seeing a big reduction as it is early days yet and many people find that they don't get a great BS reduction on the 5mcg dose, even though weight loss seems to kick in straight away on the lower dose.

Re: Anyone use Byetta? Welcome to the world of Byetta FordPrefect. You should be ok on the 30 gauge needles, but when they run out ask for the 31 gauge as these are thinner and so less likely to cause bruising. Whatever you do, don't be tempted to try the 29 gauge - feels like you are...

Hi Allan, To answer some of your questions: Glucose 301 mg/dl - this is high. A healthy level would be around 120. Triglycerides 575 mg/dl - this is dangerously high and why your doc has prescribed a statin HDL 30 mg/dl - this is dangerously low - another reason for the statin and also...

Hi Mark, Metformin acts in 2 ways: 1) it reduces insulin resistance 2) it reduces overproduction of glucose by the liver. As one of the primary causes of insulin resistance is overweight, it follows that as you reduce weight then you are also taking away one of the things metformin is supposed...

Re: Anyone use Byetta? Hi Lynne and welcome to the club! That's a very impressive drop in such a short space of time, but has your medical team warned you that you will most likely need to drop your insulin dose? The Byetta will be encouraging your pancreas to produce the correct dose of...

Hi Acron, I believe Centrum was designed as a vitamin supplement specifically for people on a low or reduced carb diet and it therefore contains little or no carbs. Unfortunately, because of the bitter taste of many natural minerals and vitamins, sweeteners are often added to make multivit...

Re: VICTOZA Hi Humph, Have you tried Boots? For people on private prescriptions for Byetta, Boots are way cheaper than any of the other chemists, so might also be cheaper for Victoza.

Re: Anyone use Byetta? Actually Ken the figures are known, at least up to October 2008, and are available in the public domain. At that point there had been 30 deaths among patients on Byetta, all of them from acute pancreatitis. However, 27 of these already had damage to the pancreas as a...

Yes they will. They will have either sorbitol or maltitol as their sweetener and these have 75% and 65% respectively the amount of carbs that sugar has.

And probably no coincidence that Wetherspoons have just announced increased profits this year at a time when every other similar outlet is moaning that the recession is killing their business. When a business "gets it right" it tends to do so on all fronts.

Hi Spiral, Unfortunately almost all pet foods these days are loaded with cereals to bulk them up - even the more expensive ranges like Iams contain typically only 25% meat and 75% carbohydrate-rich vegetables and cereals. When have you ever seen a cat eat vegetables - other than grass in order...

Hi Lyn, One of our members (Fergus, who is also a type-1) wrote a very good guide to reducing carbohydrates that you might find useful to read. Here's a link to it. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=7215

I know Hana, but Stefansson and Anderson weren't insulin dependent diabetics! In 1974 Philippe Petit did a high-wire walk between the Twin Towers - but that doesn't make it safe for everyone to try (even if they were still standing)!