MikeyBikey
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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
No one's quite sure - it goes back a long way - but on this chart it is the lowest point in the Green Zone. Members who've been around for longer than me might know more.
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Ah, that makes sense! Thank you.No one's quite sure - it goes back a long way - but on this chart it is the lowest point in the Green Zone. Members who've been around for longer than me might know more.
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Don't diss the Japanese Anemone - looks fabulous growing through dark leaved shrubs. And it flowers after the shrubs have mostly finished. All flowers have their place - although real horticultural thugs do need stricter discipline than that provided by Ms Whiplash.5.5 on a grey and misty Berkshire morning. The tops of the trees in the woods behind us are barely visible. Not much sunshine in our forecast but looks like it's going to be a warm & dry day. Hope so - Saturday's a washday and I want to get everything out on the line. Unsurprisingly, we're due another soaking this evening.
@Grannylorraine - hope you enjoy IWM Duxford. It's on my bucket list but I tend not to drive long distances any more and it's a good 90 minutes from here, and then another 90 back again. I should have gone while we lived in Bedford.
@Ditto - good to see you back. Hope you manage to get things back under control.
@TinaD - I know what you mean about Japanese Anemone. Every time we think we've finally got rid of ours it comes up again.
Enjoy the start to the weekend, everyone.
Agree, we’ve got a dark corner of the garden that we nicknamed 'The burial plot' when we first moved in, because it was a large area of dug over earth with nothing growing in it. This is it at the moment.Don't diss the Japanese Anemone - looks fabulous growing through dark leaved shrubs. And it flowers after the shrubs have mostly finished. All flowers have their place - although real horticultural thugs do need stricter discipline than that provided by Ms Whiplash.
Thanks so much for sharing goodybags, its good to know and be aware. It is helpful. I did have a call from the pharmacist yesterday asking me as this is a new med is there anything I wanted to know, I just said what I had learnt here and through diabetic nurse and doc. But he did mention there would be increased urination and the need to watch for blood glucose going too low. I am drinking more water which will make me go more any way. I won't be keen to go up a dose and I would like in time reduce metformin back to 2 x daily. I was wondering if it may be possible at a later date to do alternate days with the empagliflozin, I have notice it seems to act quickly on a daily basis for me, but no doubt the d nurse will shake her head at that suggestion . Yes I agree even on the low dose the need to be aware how far to the loo is a bonus for comfort. wow 22 visits, that's too much. I've not counted my visits but probably doing 9 visits now. which is quite a lot any way. I shall keep an eye on things. Thanks again.Hi @Jodee
I don’t mind posting to share my experience of Empagliflozin
I was ok on the low dose..
but once they upped my dose to the full dose which was then incorporated into a single tablet as a combination of Metformin and Empagliflozin
within a few days it bought on excessive visits to the bathroom
I was previously taking a minimal dose introduced to my meds probably about 2 years ago,
not sure it really did much good, or not but initially I had had no noticeable side effects
until after about a year ago when I woke up one day and I was busting to use the bathroom
but once I had been I was was ok
I kept taking it at the same small dose
then a few months ago another med I was taking Trulicity was no longer available (due to supply shortages) my GP decided as my HbA1c at that time had gone up to about 75 and trulicity wasn’t available to up the Empagliflozin to the maximum dose,
safer a few days I found I was just needing the bathroom to excess
I was just taking some time off work (sick that wasnt anything Diabetes related) at the time
so it wasn’t a major issue and after all I though Empagliflozin works by encouraging your kidneys to get rid of excessive glucose anyway and
moving on back to work a few weeks ago
and noticed I’ve been constantly looking for the nearest toilet 🙄
One day I kept a count 22 visits 😳 and my sugars weren’t high
I knew as I was at the time usING CGM (still using CGM at the moment)
that’s when I got in touch with the GP,
had to speak to him anyway as had some bad hypos a few days before,
plus am currently fighting to get CGM funded by NHS, anyway he feels I should stay on Empagliflozin but just the minimum dose that I was on before, yesterday I collected a prescription for the 10 mg Empagliflozin
TBH not 100% sure if will take it (haven’t today)
a few of my customers who are also diabetic were telling me they hadn’t got on with it,
but like you say we are all different, and meds effect us all in different way,
Metformin for example I've been on that now for over 30 years and it’s never given me any problems (as far as I can recall)
I’ve decided not to re-start taking them (just yet) OK before when I was ok on the smaller dose of Empagliflozin, and I wasn’t at that time taking Mounjaro, plus I’m currently using CGM so I’m constantly aware what my levels are anywayThanks so much for sharing goodybags, its good to know and be aware. It is helpful. I did have a call from the pharmacist yesterday asking me as this is a new med is there anything I wanted to know, I just said what I had learnt here and through diabetic nurse and doc. But he did mention there would be increased urination and the need to watch for blood glucose going too low. I am drinking more water which will make me go more any way. I won't be keen to go up a dose and I would like in time reduce metformin back to 2 x daily. I was wondering if it may be possible at a later date to do alternate days with the empagliflozin, I have notice it seems to act quickly on a daily basis for me, but no doubt the d nurse will shake her head at that suggestion . Yes I agree even on the low dose the need to be aware how far to the loo is a bonus for comfort. wow 22 visits, that's too much. I've not counted my visits but probably doing 9 visits now. which is quite a lot any way. I shall keep an eye on things. Thanks again.
For a second there I thought the first pic was of you Elaine!@PattiEvans swimming costume weather! Had the water slide out, ie a bit of plastic sheeting and the hosepipe! Still 20.5 degrees, just cooling down.