Medication - Mounjaro and Gliclazide

[warnawoo]

My nurse put me on gliclazide and its made me gain weight . shes now put me on monjaro to help bring ny levels down. Jas anyone else been taking monjaro and gliclazide andnif so have u gained or lost weight.
Im not happy on the gliclazide and want to stop i cant keep putting on all this weight!!

 

[goodybags]

Hi @warnawoo, welcome to the forum
theres a few of us on here on Mounjaro, I’ve got on ever so well on it, I’m not on Glicazide myself but I’m on Metformin & insulin (although since starting Mounjaro have been reducing the amount of insulin I need)

About 25 years ago I was on Glicazide and it didn’t agree with me plus at the time I was very overweight, Hope you get on well with Mounjaro yourself as well as I have & others

I’m thinking if your worried regarding taking it in conjunction with Glicazide best ask your DSN, If it was her who started you on it, but TBH probably easiest to ask at your pharmacy
what kind of Blood Glucose levels are you seeing at the moment / what was your last Hba1c score ?

 

[goodybags]

@Anna DUK I was thinking, can the title be edited to maybe add Mounjaro & Glicazide
to ensure more people see the question that the original post was asking

 

[Anna DUK]

@Anna DUK I was thinking, can the title be edited to maybe add Mounjaro & Glicazide
to ensure more people see the question that the original post was asking

Thread title edited @warnawoo and @goodybags 🙂

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hope the Mounjaro works well for you @warnawoo

There’s a PDF here which is designed to help GPs combine various different medications in twos and threes.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng28/resources/visual-summary-short-version-choosing-medicines-for-further-treatment-pdf-10956472095

Gliclazide is a Sulfonylurea, which encourages the body to release more insulin than it naturally would. This helps you access energy in the carbohydrates you are eating, energy which would previously have been stuck in your blood stream causing havoc.

Of course this additional available energy, can end up being stored as weight even though you are eating the same amounts - but to my non medically-trained mind, that’s only because some of the food you were always eating has been hitherto going missing.

It’s rather like insulin’s reputation for weight gain - when it is added as an additional therapy later. Whereas I’ve been taking exogenous insulin for 30 odd years and I’ve not really gained any weight at all. So I try not to think about various medications as causing weight gain.