Victoza after a hospital Visit!
Just been summoned Thursday to the Diabetic clinic after around 4 years in France and with ANY visit for around 8 years total I think?
Result? Excellent feel! I really feel alive again!
I was all day being tested and the level of testing was FAR superior to anything I received whilst in the UK. Heart test was a FULL ECG and then an ultrasound inspection of my heart. Podiatrist did a FULL and rather FRANK inspection of feet and pulses and as a result I have after 21 years again been asked to present myself for shoe inserts! Something I sought after I left the Royal Navy and asked constantly my Doctor in the UK to prescribe! And that was actually without even asking! Full bloods etc and of course the now fabled DIETICIAN visit!! AAAGGGHHH! (Can you tell I am NOT over fond of dieticians? The only NICE thing about them is they are usually VERY pretty girls and very easy on the eye. Sorry but they are.) This one was pretty and VERY voracious (DIET WISE BOY!!I! Which is also very usual. I did have to have a translator as my French is not yet good enough and of course I was ripped up for toilet paper regards my diet... WHAT diet?? Anyway I should NOT be eating Shreddies! I had NOT appreciated the content HONEST!!
And after I told her it was ONLY after visiting this site and reading about Carb Diets that I realised they existed. She was AMAZED at that and I did not need French to know that! But true as it was I actually was only pulled on a couple of things, so all was quite well!
And the Doctor herself LISTENED to me! (I want to go onto Insulin as I am NOT convinced my diet and tablets are enough to control my condition! And she agreed! Like last week average glucose was at Breakfast 7.8 before and 11.4 after. 9.8 before lunch and 16.3 after 6 before tea/supper and 14.4 after and 7.8 before bed. I took 1000mg of Metformin 3 times a day and used to alternate at dinner and tea time to take it. My levels are TOO high she said! I funnily enough agreed and said she should have see them BEFORE I discovered this site! Anyway she has put me on Victoza 0.6 a day and then after a week I go to 1.2. And I have 3 months and after that if NO improvement then it IS Insulin. I asked for insulin though as I thought (Again before I found this forum) that Metformin and Insulin were the ONLY treatments for Diabetics!! And this was because of the IGNORANT Consultant at Halifax Royal!!! The one who informed me that EVERYONE is 5 before a meal and NO other reading was possible!! And has already been discussed at some length this is of course a LOAD OF BULL! But that was how my medication and the regime was treat! I.E. NO mention of Carbohydrates etc,.
Anyway I am now a LOT happier and just hope this will go as it should!! BUT (And the reason for posting, I DO take my metformin as well with the Victoza?? the doctor was not very clear , most likely due to the language problem I think! And my own doctor is away for 3 weeks and I cannot ask the hospital Doctor till Monday. So advice please? IF that is OK?