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Trulicity, Metformin…

lcarter

lcarter

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Hello everyone!

I won’t bore you with where I’ve been over the past year, but I recently went back on Trulicity.

Type 2:
On Levemier x 2 a day (14 units each)
Fiasp for carbs
Jardiance 25mg daily
Metformin slow release x 2 tablets (max dose) daily

I’m tired and my levels are high or low; no in between.

Asked for to try something else and we decided on Trulicity 0.75. (Last time they started me on 1.5 and I was very ill)

Gp said to stop the insulin and jardiance but keep on with the Metformin as last time my levels were very well controlled by Trulicity.

But that was a higher dose.

My levels are 15 minimum and I took Trulicity on Friday.

I’m trying to get off insulin, but my diabetic nurse said we should probably try staying on Jardiance. (Last time I ended up in a&e when I combined it with keto so I’m not doing keto)

I can lower my carbs but I can’t do keto it’s too much for me. I’ve got ibs and a thousand intolerances to most things, and low carb and keto trigger these sadly.

My diabetic nurse is going to call her specialist and ask on Wednesday, but we’re talking a while before I get a response.

I usually make my own decisions as I know how my body is, but I’m probably going to take the jardiance today, along with the Metformin.

Does anyone have any advice? Other than keto or low carb unfortunately.

I feel like a medical enigma so I’d love to hear from anyone like me.

(I was misdiagnosed as a type 1 for 11 years)

Thank you
 
lcarter said:
Hello everyone!

I won’t bore you with where I’ve been over the past year, but I recently went back on Trulicity.

Type 2:
On Levemier x 2 a day (14 units each)
Fiasp for carbs
Jardiance 25mg daily
Metformin slow release x 2 tablets (max dose) daily

I’m tired and my levels are high or low; no in between.

Asked for to try something else and we decided on Trulicity 0.75. (Last time they started me on 1.5 and I was very ill)

Gp said to stop the insulin and jardiance but keep on with the Metformin as last time my levels were very well controlled by Trulicity.

But that was a higher dose.

My levels are 15 minimum and I took Trulicity on Friday.

I’m trying to get off insulin, but my diabetic nurse said we should probably try staying on Jardiance. (Last time I ended up in a&e when I combined it with keto so I’m not doing keto)

I can lower my carbs but I can’t do keto it’s too much for me. I’ve got ibs and a thousand intolerances to most things, and low carb and keto trigger these sadly.

My diabetic nurse is going to call her specialist and ask on Wednesday, but we’re talking a while before I get a response.

I usually make my own decisions as I know how my body is, but I’m probably going to take the jardiance today, along with the Metformin.

Does anyone have any advice? Other than keto or low carb unfortunately.

I feel like a medical enigma so I’d love to hear from anyone like me.

(I was misdiagnosed as a type 1 for 11 years)

Thank you
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Are you (still?) seeing a consultant for your diabetes @lcarter ? If not, I would ask for a referral to one. One thing is for sure, you're not exactly straightforward, but you deserve better than terrible yo-yoing.
 
AndBreathe said:
Are you (still?) seeing a consultant for your diabetes @lcarter ? If not, I would ask for a referral to one. One thing is for sure, you're not exactly straightforward, but you deserve better than terrible yo-yoing.
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I’m not, no, as soon as I was type 2 I was released to community only.
 
An ordinary type 2 can eat low carb and see normal blood glucose, as a rule - if you are not, then it does suggest that you are not then it would seem to indicate that something is rather less than ordinary.
 
Resurgam said:
An ordinary type 2 can eat low carb and see normal blood glucose, as a rule - if you are not, then it does suggest that you are not then it would seem to indicate that something is rather less than ordinary.
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I had the c peptide test that showed I was producing a high amount of my own insulin, that’s why they changed the diagnosis.
 
lcarter said:
I had the c peptide test that showed I was producing a high amount of my own insulin, that’s why they changed the diagnosis.
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Oh - sorry - I did not edit that sentence very well - I meant that you have obviously got more than the diabetes to contend with. It seems rather dismissive of them to let you get on with things instead of having access to specialists.
Combining low carb without any fine tuning (basic KETO) with a glucose lowering medication is a recipe for disaster really - eating low carb is very effective for most type twos. I was told I was 'a very bed diabetic' at diagnosis, but in 80 days was out of the Hba1c diabetic range.
Low carb can, and should, be tailored to the individual not used as some magic formula.
 
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