Comments on: question about lantus dose

By: Lenny Roberson

Lenny Roberson — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:49:35 +0000

should i change to silkworms to knit that up??? i
wouldn’t doubt it. i have a hystory thereof. and i
know you know my situaton. before i was taking
protonix, reglan and carafate. i don’t have any other
symptoms though. no blood in the vomitus and no signs
of blood in my stool. i will talk to my doc about it
on my next visit

By: Lenny Roberson

Lenny Roberson — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 01:08:48 +0000

hanging head (with fingers crossed behind back) I’m
sorry Andrew, i won’t do it again, i promise….anyone
have any good recipes for mealworm and cricket
lasagna???

By: Neva Marjory

Neva Marjory — Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:17:28 +0000

from your mouth to God’s ears!

jodi

Yes, I took the Byetta in the afternoon and then went home and have not
taken
another shot of Lantus. I have dropped another 5 lb as of today. I think
taking Byetta has the overall affect of improving all metabolic functions.
It is
kind of a domino effect. Lose weight BG improves, BG improves and vitality
comes back, start walking because it is easier now and BP begins to come
down. It
just keeps getting better and better. Lizard Lovers of the world, guess
what,
It is your day. John

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By: Lenny Roberson

Lenny Roberson — Sat, 06 Mar 2004 04:42:20 +0000

some foods cause me to really have that lead ball in
the stomach feeling. salad is probably the worst. it
will sit on my stomach all blessed day if i have it
for lunch. i go to bed fighting with me. it is kind of
a trial and error thing to discover which foods do
that to you. i also have a problem with the acid
building up in my stomach at times. when i Know for
instance i only ate half a cup of yogurt for lunch
but i feel totally gorged. and i KNOW i have only had
enough water to swallow my pills. i usually end up
vomiting when i am like that and the volume thereof
far excedes the amount i have taken in. so my stomach
really is over full on those occasions, but with
stomach acid, not food

By: bruce_6

bruce_6 — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:49:13 +0000

i am really beginning to think that the
nausea occurs when my sugars are really low.

I haven’t had the problem with nausea with Byetta but I have had a stomach
ache for the last 24 hours. (That’s why I’m up at 5 a.m. writing this,
because I couldn’t sleep with a stomach ache!) Its not the kind of stomach
discomfort that comes from eating too much but is more of a feeling of bloating
and
heaviness in my stomach. The thought of eating doesn’t even appeal to me,
which is something rare indeed for me! Has anyone else had a problem with
stomach aches? I do have a problem of excess stomach acid which I treat with
Prilosec and that usually controls the problem, or it did before anyway. But
this doesn’t really feel like heartburn but more like I have a ball of lead in
my belly. I hope the feeling is something that goes away as my body adjusts
to the Byetta. Yesterday 5 hours after my biggest meal of the day (which I

ate out in another city and didn’t take my Byetta before), my blood sugar was
up to 134. For my last meal of the day, I took my Byetta and a half hour
later ate a nutrition bar and a cup of low sugar cranberry juice. I tested my
blood sugar an hour after that and it was down to 74. I didn’t take metformin
at that meal so the Byetta must have brought it down that much. Janet

By: Lenny Roberson

Lenny Roberson — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:06:28 +0000

i am convinced that as my sugars stabilze the nause
will go away. i am really beginning to think that the
nausea occurs when my sugars are really low.(i don’t
have the stuff to test proberly so i am only
guessing.) but when i start having the really bad
nausea, and then lower my meds some, for a while the
nausea subsides. then i think my sugar dips some more
adn the nausea starts in again. i have 1 week left til
i completly discontinue my glucovance adn then i will
start weaning off the levemir and see what happens.

By: Neva Marjory

Neva Marjory — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:49:43 +0000

honestly, i couldn’t remember what the needles i had looked like so i got a
new box. insurance pays 100% for all supplies and "durable medical
equipment".

jodi

jody as for the needles, my levemir is a pen and i use
the same box of needles for both

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By: Neva Marjory

Neva Marjory — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:20:41 +0000

this stuff sounds amazing. 4 months and you are like a new person!

jodi
when i started, i
weighed 230 lbs, my glucose ran in the 600’s despite
glucovance 1500 mg and lantus 60 u. i have been on
huge amounts of insulin (as muc as 300u at a time) and
every kind of insulin as well as massive amounts of
most of the pills for diabetes and i couldn’t get my
numbers to budge. my HgA1c was 15.6. now after 4
months on the byetta, i have dropped my HgA1c to 8.4,
my weight to 188, i have one more week of glucovance
500mg and then i am coming off of that, and i am on
levemir 10u (a new insulin). Most people don’t have
the kind of nausea and vomiting i have had adn not

nearly so long. i do feel full most of the time and am
not hungry.

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By: Lenny Roberson

Lenny Roberson — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:39:21 +0000

jody as for the needles, my levemir is a pen and i use
the same box of needles for both

By: Lenny Roberson

Lenny Roberson — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:27:37 +0000

hi jodi and welcome,
i can honestly say that i have probably had the worst
time of anyone here with the byetta. constant nausea
and vomiting for 5 months. BUT, and it is a big but,
my overall condition has improved so much that i am
not willing to stop taking the byetta. and i have
decided that it may be lows in the am that are
causeing some of my problems. when i started, i
weighed 230 lbs, my glucose ran in the 600’s despite
glucovance 1500 mg and lantus 60 u. i have been on
huge amounts of insulin (as muc as 300u at a time) and
every kind of insulin as well as massive amounts of
most of the pills for diabetes and i couldn’t get my
numbers to budge. my HgA1c was 15.6. now after 4
months on the byetta, i have dropped my HgA1c to 8.4,

my weight to 188, i have one more week of glucovance
500mg and then i am coming off of that, and i am on
levemir 10u (a new insulin). Most people don’t have
the kind of nausea and vomiting i have had adn not
nearly so long. i do feel full most of the time and am
not hungry.
i almost forgot the most important part. my blood
sugars. after literally walking around for 15 years
with a blood sugar of 600+ right now on glucophage 500
and levemir 10u my fasting sugars are below 130 and my
post meal sugars are 103ish. i do not test regularly
because i don’t have a meter at present(financial
probs) but i had it tested at a diabetic thing on
monday AFTER eating a forbidden piece of birthday cake
and a couple of bites of easter candy and my blood
sugar was 127!!!
so hang in there, the nausea if you have it ususally
doesn’t last long for most people unless you overeat
or eat something lizards don’t like. be careful though
because you do begin to crave mealworms and crickets
after a while
welcome and good luck
annie