Victoza (Liraglutide)

Sdrogerson

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Type 2
After twenty years of type 2 diabetes diagnosed after the appearance of neuropathy and having exhausted all other options I am now on Victoza which I started on Monday. I feel really sick have been retching a lot, constipated sore stomach etc - how long do these side effects last?

Please note I am housebound,67, and have multiple other ailments including ulcerative colitis, asthma and a major depressive disorder (long lasting). I see my GP every four weeks.
 
Hi, I can’t help with your question but wanted to send you a hug & hope things settle for you!
 
Hi, Sdrogerson, welcome to the forum.

Their own website only says contact your doctor if the side effects continue, it doesn’t say how long ‘continue’ is. You should be able to contact them from their website, though.

https://www.victoza.com/faq/Possible-side-effects.html
 
After twenty years of type 2 diabetes diagnosed after the appearance of neuropathy and having exhausted all other options I am now on Victoza which I started on Monday. I feel really sick have been retching a lot, constipated sore stomach etc - how long do these side effects last?

Please note I am housebound,67, and have multiple other ailments including ulcerative colitis, asthma and a major depressive disorder (long lasting). I see my GP every four weeks.
 
Hi, your description could be me on all counts, so I hope this might help you as it did me:
I have explored a different approach with Victoza which may help others. I am T2 for over a decade and have followed the route most others have, starting with Metformin. My journey arrived at Ozempic and then followed 5 months of
diarrhea and incontinence and finally stopped. I was put on to Victoza, starting at 0.6 mg rising to 1.2. Not long after (couple of days) I was back to all I had wrestled with using Ozempic. My diabetes team wanted to move me on to insulin, but I did not, because Victoza has many other benefits, especially risk of cardio vascular issues. So I went back to 0.6 starting dose. NOW THE GOOD NEWS: I started at 0.6 and then increased the dose by one (1) click of the pen per week. One click = 0.06 mg The following day I had bit of abdominable gurgling which settled after about 24 hrs. I continued the journey towards 1.2. One week the gurgling was more pronounced and lasted a bit longer, so I stayed on that dose for 2 weeks, then returned to one click per week and after 12 weeks I reached 1.2 WITH NO SIDE EFFECTS. I know everyone is different and I was told that what I had done was very unconventional, but hey - it worked and is still working. So I hope I may have stumbled onto an approach that might well work for other people. I should also mention that I have an extreme form of IBS which makes this class of drugs difficult to tolerate, but this gently, gently approach managed to creep past the IBS with no reaction. I hope this might work for you, it`s definitely worth trying. Good luck.
 
thanks for sharing your experience @CornishDowser

Unfortunately the member who started this thread has not revisited the forum since the summer of 2019
 
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