Type 2 Diabetes medication side effects?

I have type 2 and I have been on metformin - 500 mg and dapagliflozin - 10mg for nearly five years. About four months ago I was prescribed an additional tablet - saxagliptin - 5mg. Since then I have had a terrible headache, 24/7 and then this week I have started to itch all over and bad cramps in the front of my legs. My chest feels tight in the morning and I could for about an hour before it feels better. Has anyone else had trouble with this medication? Im starting to feel worried now.

chrishopkinsd said:

Go to your doctor and say you are getting side effects from tablet. The doctor should be able to prescribe you an alternative.
Years ago I had side affects with symvastatin, now I’m on atorvastatin for example.

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I have spoken to the doctor this morning and she was shocked at the side effects so she has taken me off them all together, we will speak again in two week and see if things are getting better. She also advised to buy a blood pressure monitor and we can talk about the results of that at the same time. So fingers crossed that we will see an improvement in two weeks.

DCUKMod said:

Hi there mummycaz, as @chrishopkinsd suggests, make contact with your Doctor.

To be frank, I wouldn't suggest you tell him you are experiencing side effects of your new tablet, as that might deflect from anything else going on, and, or put their back up. The symptoms you suggest do appear on the list given for saxagliptin, but then they are pretty common for other things too.

https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/saxagliptin/

Good luck getting to the bottom of it.

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I have looked at the side effects after I posted on here and before I phoned my doctor, which is where I saw that a lot of the side effects were happening to me. When you say deflect from something else going on, what do you mean? Can you give me some ideas what else it might be. You have rather worried me now.

DCUKMod said:

I mean, I'd rather I got a decent examination or diagnostic thought process than risk the GP being swayed by the patient diagnosing themselves.

Have you heard back from your GP yet?

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Yes, she phoned me this morning. Our GP surgery are not doing face to face at the moment. We talked it through and she said I should have gone to her before now and told her how bad they were getting. She has taken me off them immediately and she is going to ring me in a couple of weeks to see if I am starting to feel better, although she did say it can take up to a month to clear my system completely. If nothing changes then we will have to start looking at other possibilities. It just seems weird that these feelings started quite soon after taking these tablets, I had been feeling fine before then. She also wants me to buy a blood pressure monitor and keep an eye on that too as I havent been checked since March due to the virus.