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Semiglutide trial Ascend

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daisydoole

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
I started my trial 10.10.25, side affects not too bad. In the first 3 months I lost 14 pounds but more importantly my fasting glucose level came down to in the 5s so very glad. However 26 days ago I started the full trial. Weight loss stopped almost immediately and my fasting glucose level has gone up to 8.8 today. So i guess I am on the placebo. My food noise is back too. I will give it another month and see if this changes, but my health is more important than this trial and I will remove myself from it if needed.

Anyone else have comments on the full trial, most of the comments I see are about the run-in.
 
Hi @daisydoole & welcome to the forum
Don’t know if you’ve seen this thread on the ascendplus trial

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Thread 'Anyone on the Ascend Plus trial?'

Just thought aid start a discussion here for anyone on the Ascend Plus trial by Oxford University.

Started my “Run In” phase yesterday and so far so good. No side affects other than fatigue. How are other folks doing?
 
daisydoole said:
I started my trial 10.10.25, side affects not too bad. In the first 3 months I lost 14 pounds but more importantly my fasting glucose level came down to in the 5s so very glad. However 26 days ago I started the full trial. Weight loss stopped almost immediately and my fasting glucose level has gone up to 8.8 today. So i guess I am on the placebo. My food noise is back too. I will give it another month and see if this changes, but my health is more important than this trial and I will remove myself from it if needed.

Anyone else have comments on the full trial, most of the comments I see are about the run-in.
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I realised I was on the placebo, and decided to withdraw from the trial and my GP practice agreed to prescribe the Rybelsus for me after seeing the effect the semaglutide had on my BG and other issues. I would recommend talking to your GP surgery about this and seeing if they can do anything for you.

There are a lot of posts from people at various stages of the run in and trial over on the Ascend Plus thread mentioned above, so you will be able to find out more from people who think they are the real stuff.
 
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