Jason592
Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
hi 🙂 (This might be a bit of a waffle but thanks for reading if you make it to the end!)
I've been type 2 before, about 10 years ago but I lost 8 stone back then and my GP told me that I was no longer in the diabetic range. I was suppose to be taking Metformin at the time as well be I didn't.
To cut a long story short, "life" happened and around August last year I had a blood test and was told my level was around 80 so I was prescribed Metformin again but, again, I neglected it until around November when I was urinating so frequently I think i 'woke up' to an extent and started taking it properly.
What didn't help was getting diagnosed with Covid in late December. At the hospital, they gave me another blood test and my level was still too high so I ended up being admitted and was there for 5 days while they sorted me out.
I was given Lipitor and Ramipril to go along with the Metformin and also the Humalog Insulin Pens to use twice a day. My GP nurse also prescribed me Empagliflozin a couple of weeks later as well and I've taken everything i'm supposed to take without fail.
Now just over a month ago my appointment came through for my local Diabetes support clinic so I went and after talking, the nurse asked me if i'd be interested in going on Ozempic as it was only once a week instead of twice a day. Like many of the threads I've read here, she started me on 0.25 with the intention of moving up to 0.50 and then 1.
She also explained to me that one of the side effects, especially if you ate too much, would be diarrhoea but I was happy to go ahead and try it though. And that's been what i've been suffering from for the past 10 days or so, although, rather weirdly, everything was completely fine over the weekend !. I was actually moved to 1000mg slow release Metformin last week to see if that made a difference going to twice a day, but it hasn't really.
So I was just wondering if anyone had experienced the same and if you maybe had any practical examples of the amount of food you can eat to prevent these side effects ?
I appreciate that's very much a "how long is a piece of string" question but any advice would be most welcome. I've read about a few people saying a low carb diet helped so that's certainly something I want to look at. I know probably a lot of my problem is portion size because when I look at some of the plates of food I've had over the past month or two I often think that it's far too much so I suppose it would help to have some examples.
If you've made it this far without falling asleep, thankyou 🙂
I've been type 2 before, about 10 years ago but I lost 8 stone back then and my GP told me that I was no longer in the diabetic range. I was suppose to be taking Metformin at the time as well be I didn't.
To cut a long story short, "life" happened and around August last year I had a blood test and was told my level was around 80 so I was prescribed Metformin again but, again, I neglected it until around November when I was urinating so frequently I think i 'woke up' to an extent and started taking it properly.
What didn't help was getting diagnosed with Covid in late December. At the hospital, they gave me another blood test and my level was still too high so I ended up being admitted and was there for 5 days while they sorted me out.
I was given Lipitor and Ramipril to go along with the Metformin and also the Humalog Insulin Pens to use twice a day. My GP nurse also prescribed me Empagliflozin a couple of weeks later as well and I've taken everything i'm supposed to take without fail.
Now just over a month ago my appointment came through for my local Diabetes support clinic so I went and after talking, the nurse asked me if i'd be interested in going on Ozempic as it was only once a week instead of twice a day. Like many of the threads I've read here, she started me on 0.25 with the intention of moving up to 0.50 and then 1.
She also explained to me that one of the side effects, especially if you ate too much, would be diarrhoea but I was happy to go ahead and try it though. And that's been what i've been suffering from for the past 10 days or so, although, rather weirdly, everything was completely fine over the weekend !. I was actually moved to 1000mg slow release Metformin last week to see if that made a difference going to twice a day, but it hasn't really.
So I was just wondering if anyone had experienced the same and if you maybe had any practical examples of the amount of food you can eat to prevent these side effects ?
I appreciate that's very much a "how long is a piece of string" question but any advice would be most welcome. I've read about a few people saying a low carb diet helped so that's certainly something I want to look at. I know probably a lot of my problem is portion size because when I look at some of the plates of food I've had over the past month or two I often think that it's far too much so I suppose it would help to have some examples.
If you've made it this far without falling asleep, thankyou 🙂