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Lynn Davies

Lynn Davies

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"Hangs head in shame" I know I have been very remiss for ages now. You know when you get out of the habit of doing something and just never seem to get back into it - Well! Seems I fit that description to a tee!

What has been happening to me! October 2016 they decided to chop my thyroid meds and literally blew my results out of the water. Weight gain - hair loss - no energy - leg pain! Only just this last test has it come back to anything like. I think I feel ooooman again - perhaps - 🙄 At least my hair has stopped falling out!:D

Diabetes wise - things started to go a bit pear shaped in January 2017 when I started to not tolerate the metformin I was on (BG66) so they moved me to slow release but didn't get much better on that so in August (BG74) they moved me onto Alogliptin which had no effect whatsoever! (BG102). Back to slow release metformin and BG104 so something is amiss.

They have given me another tablet to take alongside the met which is called Dapagliflozin which will make me excrete the excess glucose out with my urine - so basically I will be peeing lucozade. Oh I forgot to say - one of the side effects of this medication is weightloss!!! Whooooohoooooo!

Note to self - keep an eye out for Hypo type 1's - I could just be useful!!!

Off now to see what fun I have been missing 😎 Missed you all xx
 
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Welcome back Lynn. I take empagliflozin so I pee excess glucose out too! Watch out for thrush and UTI's too. Ive only had one hypo and luckily enough I was in a pub so got my oh to grab me an orange juice.
 
Hiya Stitch ((hugs)) You should have pee'd in a pot and drunk it!!! *searches for vomiting smilie*
 
Hello Lynn, wondered where you'd got to. Welcome back!
 
Hi Robin xx
 
Welcome back, Lynn.🙂
 
Hello Lynn, lovely to see you back 🙂

Didn't you go off travelling ? Hope you had some good adventures despite metformin! 🙂
 
Not met before, reasonably new to this forum, but hello and welcome back to the fold.
 
Nice to see you back. Sorry you haven’t been well, but hopefully turned the corner
 
Hi to everyone - thanks for the welcome back.

Hi Cookieones - its a journey of learning for sure is this stuff!

Hi Flower - yes we did go off in our motorhome for a couple of months - You can read about it here if you want to be bored witless lol http://teamdaviesontour.blogspot.co.uk/2016/
 
Such a good idea to write about your adventures Lynn 🙂 I will have a good read of it 🙂
 
Hi Lynn
I will also be peeing Lucozade as I've just been prescribed Dapagliflozin. Haven't cashed in the prescription form yet. Not looking forward to increased visits to the loo as I spend enough time in there already.
Let's hope for no bad side effects.
 
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