seems a lot of medication

[tigers12]

im now taking Metiformin 54units and 1.5mg Trulicity also Glipizide 80mg in morning and 40mg at night
my sugars are coming down but slowly yet nurse says once a week to still keep going up another 4 units
will mean ill be injecting twice soon as pen only goes to 60 i did ask for something fast acting
but they wont let me both doctor and nurse say to stay on this anyone else on Metiformin

 

[Annb]

Is your Metformin in injections? Mine is in tablet form - 500 mg twice a day with food. Plus Lantus solostar injectable - 64 units at night and Humilin S injectable 60 units with each meal (my pen only delivers 60 units, so I don't want to put it up and inject more than once at a time). Still not under control though. How high are your sugars with the medication you're on? Despite being on Metformin for years now, I still can't tolerate more than 1000 mg a day (stomach/bowel object violently).

 

[tigers12]

Is your Metformin in injections? Mine is in tablet form - 500 mg twice a day with food. Plus Lantus solostar injectable - 64 units at night and Humilin S injectable 60 units with each meal (my pen only delivers 60 units, so I don't want to put it up and inject more than once at a time). Still not under control though. How high are your sugars with the medication you're on? Despite being on Metformin for years now, I still can't tolerate more than 1000 mg a day (stomach/bowel object violently).

hi hun thanks for reply no its in tablet form its Glipizide my sugars have come down to about 12 but through the day go higher when i eat but i understand thats for anyone and wow!! vyou take a lot of insulin

 

[Annb]

Yes, I do take a lot of insulin. I've been trying for about 2 years to get it down with a low carb diet, but it didn't work and it made me ill. So I have given up on that. I read an article which indicated that for someone like me who is insulin resistant and taking insulin, it is risking ketoacidosis, which I don't want to do, especially since my daughter-in-law was rushed to hospital with that very problem 3 days ago. She recovered but it was scary! From today I am definitely back on some carbohydrates and that will make me put on even more weight. When the diabetes is as well established as mine, I don't think there is much that will keep it under control. But there is much more hope of remission, or at least good control for you. My diabetes team think that 12 is not too bad, but you may be able to improve on that with careful management. I do hope so.

 

[tigers12]

Yes, I do take a lot of insulin. I've been trying for about 2 years to get it down with a low carb diet, but it didn't work and it made me ill. So I have given up on that. I read an article which indicated that for someone like me who is insulin resistant and taking insulin, it is risking ketoacidosis, which I don't want to do, especially since my daughter-in-law was rushed to hospital with that very problem 3 days ago. She recovered but it was scary! From today I am definitely back on some carbohydrates and that will make me put on even more weight. When the diabetes is as well established as mine, I don't think there is much that will keep it under control. But there is much more hope of remission, or at least good control for you. My diabetes team think that 12 is not too bad, but you may be able to improve on that with careful management. I do hope so.

thanks hun for all your kind replies back i guess we are all in this together with diabetes i need to start learning more i think
about the right and wrong things to eat also i see that theres a diet plan on here that people can join

 

[ianf0ster]

@tigers12 , Hi and welcome to the forum.
As @Annb says, many of us get our T2 diabetes into remission through a Low Carb Way Of Eating (WOE) - not a calorie restricted diet. Personally I doubt that her fears about ketoacidosis are likely since there are also many Type 1 diabetics who use Low Carb to reduce their Insulin dose and to stabilise their BG fluctuations ( and they were doing that for over 100yrs, so from before the discovery of Insulin.

But for people like you whoa re on Glipizide and/or Insulin you have to be very careful not to have your Blood Glucose go too low - a 'hypo' (usually accepted to be below 4.0 mmol/l but some people 'feel it ' at rather higher levels) which can be dangerous. Thus for those, its best to use Low Carb in conjunction with matching reduced medication i.e your doctor neds to be involved (even if not in agreement that Low Carb 'works'.