Re: Victoza
good luck with victoza i'm doing fine on it and it's not hard to use be good to have someone else on it with me
Hello to all, I have been on Victoza for at least 5 years, (or it could be longer), I have read some of the first page comments, and I can say that I have 2 thighs that are used on alternate days for the same injection. The pen is very simple to use, the needle point which I use is only 0.4 ml long so it is not really felt.
The starting dose I was given was 0.6ml once a day, for the first week, then if there had been nothing concerning, the dose went to 1.2ml per day, and it has stayed that way ever since. I have felt fuller while I have been on it, and as with all diabetics I work at maintaining my BG levels, it is a good addition to the group of meds available for control and I have felt fine the whole time I have been on it. All diabetics should have a yellow sharps box, (to put the testing strips and the little finger prick lances in, binmen can throw hissy fits if they find testing stuff in the general rubbish bins).
To those who are think about or been offered Victoza give it a go, and as previous posts have commented on injection sites get sore and have nasty things happening, the victoza goes into muscle, and I have found my thighs are big enough to be used as injection sites.
Most users usually use 2 pens a month at 1.2ml per day, and mine are supplied in boxes of 3 pens as this the usual number the manufacturers make them in, and although the doctors prescribe 2 pens, they have to be supplies in the boxes of 3 as the pharmacy cannot supply the single pen on it's own.