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Sallybear

Sallybear

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Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Right so back from hospital, DSN was surprised about my GP's decision to put me on Canoglaflixin (or however it's spelt) but I said to her he wanted me to try this to get my sugars down until the DSN could put me onto insulin. She said why hasn't he prescribed insulin, I replied that he as written to her (via consultant) to request this and nothing has happened.

She gave me a whole spiel on how I will get fat on insulin but I don't care about that I want my sugars down as I am showing symptoms of long term high sugars and I have tried every medication going. I don't know why she was so against it but put me onto Lantus.

The odd thing is, she told me to continue with Bydureon Injections weekly, AND continue with Gliclazide although she did lower the dose.

She only stopped the Canoglaflixin because I told her that was what the GP wanted.

Funny thing was, considering for months I have been high teens early twenties on my readings, with the 160mg twice a day Gliclazine they came down to double figures, 2 days into Canoglaflixin and I had a hypo!! Well It felt like one and I had dropped to 6mmol which is very low for me, had a banana and was ok.

So the Canoglaflixin obviously does work, and quickly to eliminate the sugars in the body via the kidneys, a great medication but the side effects of water and yeast infections is the reason my GP didn't want this to be a long term solution.

Anyway I have chosen dinner time for my Lantus so first injection would be this evening. Hopefully we can see a bit of improvement, and I can finally come off the Gliclazide. Very concerned that Bydureon is not meant to be used with Insulin, perhaps I should have queried this with her more.
 
Hi. Are you overweight? If so then the highest priority is to get as near to a normal BMI as you can by reducing the carbs in the diet. You should find the need for some of the medication may then reduce; for example Bydureon is normally only prescribed when overweight. You may even find in the longer term that the insulin may also not be needed but that will depend on future HBa1Cs, meter readings and discussion with DN/GP. BTW you need to watch out for hypos when reducing weight and on some meds so use the meter often
 
Yes to overweight, have managed to lose almost 2 stone by following a low carb diet, but unfortunately my sugars still seem extremely high, but to be honest I really struggle to understand why they are so high. If taking massive amounts of Sulphonylureas only brings down my sugars a small amount then surely this means that the beta cells are dying off, my GP who is a specialist Diabetic GP indicated this, but to be honest, anything that helps your body to absorb the insulin such as Pioglitazone really worked well, indicating that perhaps it is simply insulin resistance.

I am bringing my weight down quite quickly and have worked hard at the diet. I have also taken every medication given and most have not been tolerated by my very sensitive stomach so have been restricted.
 
to be honest, unless they do the proper blood tests, it's wait and see what's left of your pancreas. when the weight comes off and low carb can do it for you as it has for others here
FWIW I think the insulin is a good idea and would stop the others except 2000 metformin..just my opinion, not medical advise

join in with the what did you eat and morning numbers ..this is all good motivation..

have you found the new post link, top right ?
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/find-new/1235236/posts

if you are really keen, as well as the dietdoctor, there is the atkins induction or Newcastle
Newcastle diet aims in 8+ weeks to mimic or better the rate of ~80% remission, for surgery T2
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/
http://www.diabetesforecast.org/2010/mar/weight-loss-surgery-and-type-2-diabetes.html
 
Cheers for the info, looks interesting will get a proper read once I am home. I can't tolerate Metformin of any kind have tried a few times, unfortunately I have quite a sensitive stomach, couldn't handle Pioglitazone due to water retention, made my heart go funny too, glimeperide gave me heartburn to the point of needing a tablet daily now to control acid. Works a treat.

The ideal for me, is to come off any tablets, I don't mind injections but anything I have to swallow tends to cause a problem.
 
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