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<blockquote data-quote="Dennis" data-source="post: 4218" data-attributes="member: 1338"><p>Hi again Norma,</p><p></p><p>Just a couple of points on Byetta - if you do get it prescribed, just make sure that your consultant or GP starts you on the 5mcg dose for at least the first 30 days. Its amazing how many GPs just ignore the makers instructions and start their patients on the maximum 10mcg dose - and in practically every case the patient has to come off it because of the nausea experienced. At the lower dose most people experience some feeling of nausea (I was lucky because I didn't) but it generally wears off after a week or so. Then you will experience it again for a week or so if you go up to the 10mcg pen.</p><p></p><p>Whether you will get it on an NHS prescription is a postcode lottery. It depends on your PCT's attitude towards the cost, not whether your consultant recommends it or whether it is effective. My consultant started me on it 6 months ago and it has been very successful for me. My GP would like to be able to prescribe it for me but our local PCT won't allow it on cost grounds. So I have to have private prescriptions from the consultant and pay getting on for £100 a month for what people in many other parts of the country can get on the NHS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dennis, post: 4218, member: 1338"] Hi again Norma, Just a couple of points on Byetta - if you do get it prescribed, just make sure that your consultant or GP starts you on the 5mcg dose for at least the first 30 days. Its amazing how many GPs just ignore the makers instructions and start their patients on the maximum 10mcg dose - and in practically every case the patient has to come off it because of the nausea experienced. At the lower dose most people experience some feeling of nausea (I was lucky because I didn't) but it generally wears off after a week or so. Then you will experience it again for a week or so if you go up to the 10mcg pen. Whether you will get it on an NHS prescription is a postcode lottery. It depends on your PCT's attitude towards the cost, not whether your consultant recommends it or whether it is effective. My consultant started me on it 6 months ago and it has been very successful for me. My GP would like to be able to prescribe it for me but our local PCT won't allow it on cost grounds. So I have to have private prescriptions from the consultant and pay getting on for £100 a month for what people in many other parts of the country can get on the NHS. [/QUOTE]
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