Comments on: Byetta and Sun

By: Irwin Mayme

Irwin Mayme — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:39:00 +0000

I was so cold I resorted to needing a hot pad and bought a down
"blanket" to snuggle up in. Yes, I’d say I was intolerant. But that
extreme intolerance is in the past. Now, I just feel the cold more.
Janie

By: Melvin Anh

Melvin Anh — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:40:44 +0000

Hi Andrew,

In my case, I used to be a polar bear type person. Loved the cold. Bring it
ON! The only time I ever wore a real parka was in Fairbanks, Alaska. Snow and
cold weather was my favorite time of year. When I moved to New England I hardly
ever wore more than a light jacket. I thought all the natives were weather
wusses regarding winter.

Then I met the lizard. Now I own a wardrobe of long-sleeved shirts and
sweaters. I wear long pants in the summertime. I can tolerate 85 degree humid
weather without having heat-stroke. Before I could barely leave the house
during the heat of the day. The school that was always too hot last summer is
now too cold and nothing has changed except me. I take sweaters to school
during the summer.

I figure I’m better off this way as I can always layer on clothing, but
stripping off my skin to cool off is much more difficult - not to mention
painful and dangerous.

Cheers!
Marsha

By: Irwin Mayme

Irwin Mayme — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:33:27 +0000

Andrew, I noticed an intolerance to cold when I went to the 10. A few
weeks after starting the higher dose I couldn’t get warm enough! When we
hit this hot spell, I was comfortable. So does that mean I’ll live
through global warming? LOL

By: Neva Marjory

Neva Marjory — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:30:57 +0000

AHHH, I didn’t think that I was actually MORE tolerant of the heat and
therefore didn’t drink as much or feel what was happening to me until
it was almost too late.

I will go NOWHERE without my water from here on out.

Thanks for your replies everyone.
Janine

By: Neva Marjory

Neva Marjory — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:13:01 +0000

AHHH, I didn’t think that I was actually MORE tolerant of the heat and
therefore didn’t drink as much or feel what was happening to me until
it was almost too late.

I will go NOWHERE without my water from here on out.

Thanks for your replies everyone.
Janine

By: Neva Marjory

Neva Marjory — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:37:09 +0000

The stuff turns you into a Lizard. Really it does.

I almost killed myself by dehydration while working out in the garage
in June. It was close to 100 degrees where I was working and it felt
like 80 used to.. I wasn’t sweating (and don’t anymore) and I used to
sweat like a pig. Didn’t know better until I almost passed out.

You have to watch it since it gives you an incredible tolerance to
heat that you don’t notice until you are on the verge of heat stroke.
At least that’s my experience.

Drink a lot of liquids when it’s warm and go with the new found heat
tolerance, it’s wonderful to finally have.

Fred

By: Irwin Mayme

Irwin Mayme — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:58:13 +0000

Janine, I was out in the sun for around 2 hrs w/o suntan lotion and got
a little red. It turned into a nice tan, though. The one thing I do
notice, though, was that the heat doesn’t bother me like it used to. We
hit record temps here in western Washington, and I sailed through just
fine. This is new, so I attribute it to the byetta.

By: Melvin Anh

Melvin Anh — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:24:44 +0000

Janine,

Both my husband and I use byetta. We both tolerate heat far better than we used
to. I can’t believe how well I tolerate heat. Now I can’t tolerate cold. What
used to cause me to have near heatstroke is merely a little too warm. Sun?
Bring it on.

It may be one of those YMMV things. If you liked heat before maybe you are now
part polar bear while I became a sun-loving lizard.

Sudden BG jumps for me mean I have a) eaten too much, b) eaten the wrong thing
or c) gotten an infection/virus.

Best,
Marsha

By: Kristine Ethelyn

Kristine Ethelyn — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:23:38 +0000

I was off the pen for a month, because I couldn’t afford it, but went back on
this past week. I was outside doing some light work on Friday, vaccuuming the
pool, watering flowers, etc, and I didn’t feel that hot. It was around 90
degrees here that day, and with as pale as I am, I normally don’t do well in
that kinda heat. I think that the cooling effect byetta has for some, which I
do have, is extending to the outdoors.

Trish
Petsmart_Trainers_NorthAmerica
Owned by a MI Ferret
Husky-4-Life
Diabetes_and_Byetta

We’ve been having such hot weather here that last week
we had an extended power outage. It was about 100

degrees with 111 degree heat index when my power went
out; was to be out 3.5 days. Power was out
everywhere; 590,000 households were without power.
All hotels were full; cooling centers weren’t set up
yet.

I thought I was going to die from the heat, and I’m
not kidding. I was trembling, sweating profusely,
couldn’t think straight at all, but I was getting
desperate when I thought of getting in the air
conditioned car. Finally found refuge at a relative’s
house. I think they were worried about my inability
to withstand the heat. I’ve never liked hot weather,
but now I’m almost afraid of it.

Also, I’ve never reacted like that to being hot
before. Today it’s 102 degrees here and I’ve not been
outside all day.

Peggy