Smellybumbs
New Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hi Everyone,
My name is James, I’m 42I was diagnosed in late 2012 after first being told I was type 2 diabetic in October 2011, only to be told I was pre-diabetic in April 2012. I didn’t take it seriously so full blown around November 2012. No family history, so it was a shock.
I’ve always had a rather blasè attitude to this disease. Sometimes I’ve been really good (hba1c at 50%) but most of the time I’ve not taken it seriously.
I was originally started on 500mg of metformin back in 2013 which increased to 2000mg by October 2019. I tolerated it up until February when I became ill with tonsillitis. After that, it doesn’t agree with me anymore. I’ve tried lowering it but still get the same stomach cramps/diarrhoea etc.
Along side the metformin I’ve been taking 40mg of Gliclazide since around 2016.
I spoke to my doctor regarding the side effects of metformin and how my bloods always seem to be in the teens in the morning. It’s been decided to scrap the gliclazide and try dapagliflozin 5mg daily along with metformin at 1500mg a day.
With the diagnosis of diabetes way back when, I started suffering from anxiety - mainly due to all the facts they chucked at me when I found out. Unfortunately over time this has turned into severe anxiety and I have to take medication for it (several kinds over the last 8 or so years).
Now that I’ve been prescribed dapagliflozin, the alarm bells are ringing because of the side effects. Don’t particularly want to be rushing to the toilet every 5 mins or deal with the thrush that seems to affect most people. What concerns me the most is that it can lead to DKA, although I have always been under the assumption that DKA is more relative to hyperglycaemia than hypoglycaemia. All
The research I’ve done on it, nowhere gives a definitive explanation on why DKA can occur. So I’m going a bit mad trying to understand that. My bloods however have dropped significantly this past day so that’s good. Just don’t want to end up at hospital!
If the diabetes wasn’t enough, high cholesterol (on a statin for that) and now high blood pressure (beta blockers for that). If only I’d stayed away from all those sweets, cakes, crisps and alcohol when I was younger.
Thanks for reading, I’ve probably bored the majority of you with this long essay!
My name is James, I’m 42I was diagnosed in late 2012 after first being told I was type 2 diabetic in October 2011, only to be told I was pre-diabetic in April 2012. I didn’t take it seriously so full blown around November 2012. No family history, so it was a shock.
I’ve always had a rather blasè attitude to this disease. Sometimes I’ve been really good (hba1c at 50%) but most of the time I’ve not taken it seriously.
I was originally started on 500mg of metformin back in 2013 which increased to 2000mg by October 2019. I tolerated it up until February when I became ill with tonsillitis. After that, it doesn’t agree with me anymore. I’ve tried lowering it but still get the same stomach cramps/diarrhoea etc.
Along side the metformin I’ve been taking 40mg of Gliclazide since around 2016.
I spoke to my doctor regarding the side effects of metformin and how my bloods always seem to be in the teens in the morning. It’s been decided to scrap the gliclazide and try dapagliflozin 5mg daily along with metformin at 1500mg a day.
With the diagnosis of diabetes way back when, I started suffering from anxiety - mainly due to all the facts they chucked at me when I found out. Unfortunately over time this has turned into severe anxiety and I have to take medication for it (several kinds over the last 8 or so years).
Now that I’ve been prescribed dapagliflozin, the alarm bells are ringing because of the side effects. Don’t particularly want to be rushing to the toilet every 5 mins or deal with the thrush that seems to affect most people. What concerns me the most is that it can lead to DKA, although I have always been under the assumption that DKA is more relative to hyperglycaemia than hypoglycaemia. All
The research I’ve done on it, nowhere gives a definitive explanation on why DKA can occur. So I’m going a bit mad trying to understand that. My bloods however have dropped significantly this past day so that’s good. Just don’t want to end up at hospital!
If the diabetes wasn’t enough, high cholesterol (on a statin for that) and now high blood pressure (beta blockers for that). If only I’d stayed away from all those sweets, cakes, crisps and alcohol when I was younger.
Thanks for reading, I’ve probably bored the majority of you with this long essay!
