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Trying something new...
Mar. 25th, 2010 03:52 pmSome of you may remember my experiement last year with Byetta - I was entirely off of insulin for about 3 weeks!
I also lost like 20 lbs in about that same 3 weeks, and felt terribly nauseous and tired the ENTIRE time. I eventually had to go back onto insulin and off of byetta, because I couldnt get over the terrible side effects of the drug. My favorite part of this was -getting to skip meals-.
So a new one has come out, Victoza - I'm trying that now, and so far, so good. I am slightly sick to my stomach, and have a raging headache, but its completely dealable. Blood sugars are great.
So, we'll see. Another week of taking half the insulin and then I'll up the dosage of Victoza and stop taking insulin entirely.
the good news also is that my appetite is suppressed, so these last few lbs I need to drop should also come off!
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Help me get to my goal!
http://main.diabetes.org/goto/gayathri
I also lost like 20 lbs in about that same 3 weeks, and felt terribly nauseous and tired the ENTIRE time. I eventually had to go back onto insulin and off of byetta, because I couldnt get over the terrible side effects of the drug. My favorite part of this was -getting to skip meals-.
So a new one has come out, Victoza - I'm trying that now, and so far, so good. I am slightly sick to my stomach, and have a raging headache, but its completely dealable. Blood sugars are great.
So, we'll see. Another week of taking half the insulin and then I'll up the dosage of Victoza and stop taking insulin entirely.
the good news also is that my appetite is suppressed, so these last few lbs I need to drop should also come off!
( ... ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Help me get to my goal!
http://main.diabetes.org/goto/gayathri
