Diabetic anyone?

[MsTinkerbelly]

Originally Posted by JustJo

Hi everyone

I've never heard of Victosa, but googled it and read what I could find.

I guess I'm just leery of anything remotely "new" at this point. I just (last week) got off of Actos...which everyone assured me was a wonderful, effective, virtually side effect free medication when they put me on it years ago.

Fast forward, and now it's being banned in some markets, severely limited in others, and the FDA is issuing warnings that no one should be on it for more than a year or risk increased rates of bladder cancer.

I'm not sure exactly...but I'm pretty sure I've been on it for 7 or 8 years.

I guess I'm feeling like I have zero interest in being a guinea pig for the pharmaceutical industry...and like I just was. I'm sticking to metformin and glimiperide...getting my diabetes meds down from 3 to 2 by changing my diet. Next up, I'd really like to get down to metformin alone...but know that I'll need to (at least) lose more weight to accomplish that, and continue my dietary changes.

It's a process, and it's different for all of us. The best advice I can give anyone is that we're all different, and different things will work for each of us. We can all benefit from improving our lifestyles....eating better, getting enough sleep, limiting stress, getting more exercise...and working closely with a doctor who listens to you.

Amen.

I was on Actos briefly but could not tolerate it well, and I will not take anything "new and improved" any more for the reasons you have stated. My primary Doctor is also a heart specialist, and his favorite name for me is "cardiac event just waiting to happen", he is CONSTANTLY trying to put me on "new and improved" meds...I hope eventually something is found where I can get off Insulin because of the damage my Kidney's could face having to remove it from my body.

He keeps sending me to Diabetes specialists; I left the last one after I refused to go on an Insulin Pump, and he refused to give it a rest. He called me non compliant, and I told him that just because HE had a pump was no reason not to try to find an Insulin I wasn't resistant to....too bad when you have to fight the doctor for decent care.

I'm rambling sorry...I'm hungry and it's time to head home.