movie on this page explaining how Byetta works
Cool little movie on this page explaining how Byetta works.
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Cool little movie on this page explaining how Byetta works.
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June 28th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
I could not see the movie, or find a link to it, but the information
about Byetta and antibiotics I had not heard before, and it is
important. They say, "Drug Interactions:
The effect of BYETTA to slow gastric emptying may reduce the extent and
rate of absorption of orally administered drugs, so it should be used
with caution in patients receiving oral medications that require rapid
gastrointestinal absorption.
Medications that are dependent on threshold concentrations for
efficacy, such as contraceptives and antibiotics, should be taken at
least 1 hour before BYETTA injection. If such drugs are to be
administered with food, they should be taken with a meal or snack when
BYETTA is not administered. "
Kristi
June 29th, 2005 at 3:23 am
The second try worked and I saw the movie. Thanks!
June 29th, 2005 at 5:20 am
Hi,
Just curious if anyone takes the byetta before bed with a "snack"? I am so
nauseaus in the evening I tried it a couple of nights, just taking it with a
bedtime 1/2 meat sandwich. Can’t tell any difference, but didn’t want to end up
getting in a jam during the night sometime.
Your thoughts?
Thanks!
Dean
June 29th, 2005 at 10:03 am
I’d never heard of taking glucovance AFTER a meal. I was told to take it
before. Gotta try it!
Lavonne
June 29th, 2005 at 8:35 pm
Goodness, I didn’t know this. I take my metformin immediately after
breakfast. I take By just before breakfast and just before dinner.
June 30th, 2005 at 12:35 am
I take my Byetta with dinner around 5 pm, and like you, it just pretty much
kills the evening for me. By 6:30 I am fully nauseaous and just want to lie on
the couch and watch tv. I have a 3 year old and a 5 year old who need baths,
attention, stories, etc. and it’s been hard to drag myself up and take care of
that. I wonder if you can take Byetta with an evening snack? Aren’t you
supposed to eat more with it? Of course "more" is a relative term. I find I am
eating very little. Tonight for dinner I had about 10 brussel sprouts, 2 tbsp
of mashed potatoes and three bites of pork chop and was extremely full. Now 3
plus hours later I still feel very full. In my pre-Byetta days I would have had
an evening/bedtime snack that consisted of more quantity and calorie than my
dinner tonight. I’m curious to know if others are taking it at bedtime because
I would love to try that and then just sleep through the nausea!
June 30th, 2005 at 2:44 am
Glucophage was made, originally, to be taken an hour
afterwards so that should be no problem.
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I had never heard of that before. My doctor told me to take metformin
(generic Glucophage) with my meal. Where did the information come from to take
it
an hour after? I don’t think the paper that comes with the drug says that,
does it? Janet
June 30th, 2005 at 8:01 am
Dean,
When I "graduated" to the 10 mg, it made me so miserable with nausea
that I took it as late as possible in the day — 8-9 pm — with just
a small meal containing carbs. This wasn’t difficult since I wasn’t
very hungry anyway. That way I could just go to bed, hoping the
nausea would just pass as I slept. Since I wasn’t eating very much,
I wasn’t concerned about eating just before bed. I did have to be
careful, though, because part of what I thought was nausea was low
bg. So, be sure to test yourself and eat more if your bg is too
low. Mine was 69 one evening, which is very low for me and I felt
terrible. Like I say, I was mistaking the hypoglycemia for nausea.
For now, though, I have gone back to the 5 mg and will stay on that
2 x a day for a few months to see how I do. I was only on the 5 for
one month before going to the 10. The 5 worked fine — after just a
week of feeling bad — nausea, vomiting, headaches, chills — as my
body got used to the spit. The 10 was just so hard on me that I
could never get myself to go to 2x a day. I did the 10 1x a day (at
night) for about three weeks. As I say, I was so miserable, I asked
my endo if I could go back to the 5 for a while to see how that
worked for me. I figure, if it works (ie, my numbers go down),
fine, I’ll stay on that. If it doesn’t reduce my numbers as much as
needed, I figure that my body will have had more time to get used to
the spit and the 10 might not be as bad as the first time around.
Hope all this makes sense and is helpful information.
Kathy
July 2nd, 2005 at 9:49 am
How much nausea are we talking about here? Are you actually throwing up?
Marian
Garland
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July 2nd, 2005 at 3:54 pm
I only threw up once. It was pretty "powerful" though, and I read
another entry here a while ago that said the same thing. It comes
fast and, I believe this other person described it as "projecting."