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<blockquote data-quote="Dennis" data-source="post: 11845" data-attributes="member: 1338"><p>Hi Fuggsy,</p><p>You need to remember that the main function of byetta is to encourage the pancreas to start producing insulin in readiness for the food you are about to eat. Glicladize also forces the pancreas to produce insulin, and of course you are also having insulin injected. Your body obviously doesn't need all 3 of these or you will start getting huge hypos. Doctors normally give Type-2 patients a mix of meds that will (a) encourage insulin production and (b) reduce insulin resistance and therefore make that insulin work more efficiently. None of your meds are designed to reduce insulin resistance, yet nearly all Type-2s have some degree of insulin resistance - in fact this could well be why you have been injecting what you describe as "massive amounts of insulin" but with little or no reduction in BG. (Either that or you are eating more carbs than the insulin can cope with.)</p><p></p><p>When you next go in to talk about the byetta, ask what adjustments need to be made to your present meds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dennis, post: 11845, member: 1338"] Hi Fuggsy, You need to remember that the main function of byetta is to encourage the pancreas to start producing insulin in readiness for the food you are about to eat. Glicladize also forces the pancreas to produce insulin, and of course you are also having insulin injected. Your body obviously doesn't need all 3 of these or you will start getting huge hypos. Doctors normally give Type-2 patients a mix of meds that will (a) encourage insulin production and (b) reduce insulin resistance and therefore make that insulin work more efficiently. None of your meds are designed to reduce insulin resistance, yet nearly all Type-2s have some degree of insulin resistance - in fact this could well be why you have been injecting what you describe as "massive amounts of insulin" but with little or no reduction in BG. (Either that or you are eating more carbs than the insulin can cope with.) When you next go in to talk about the byetta, ask what adjustments need to be made to your present meds. [/QUOTE]
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