byetta

Actually it is Lantus..my bad.  Well, my BS is coming down, slowly but surely and if Byetta isn't too good for the BS, then it wouldn't work for me.  I'm still in the 200s and working diligently to get it down. Thanks,  Betty

I have had dibettes since my 40th bday so five years now and my sugar has never been regulatted properly. I have gone from doctor to dr to dr and they try every combination possible. My sugar used to run from 585-35now it is in the 225-285 range and that is taking actos plus twice daily, Byetta 10 mcg twice a day, and 35 units of lantus at bead. I can't take too much metformin as the tummy gets sick and poopy comes. I am a realtor and had to pay a fas station attnedent 20 bucks to use the bathroom as I was having a hideous metformin moment LOL. I am hoping that my RNY surgery will do away with most of this medication....FYI Byetts didn't help me lose weight after the first two weeks

I have been taking metformin 500 mg twice daily since my diagnosis in early 2005.  Later that year my doctor added 10 mcg Byetta. I just recently learned from my endocrinologist when he made a comment that the Advicor (for high cholesterol) increases glucose levels.  I had taken that medication before the early diagnosis of diabetes. I just got over GI problems related to antibiotics and couldn't take any medication for a few days.  I had no glucose problems without the cholesterol medication.  I discovered that I have more energy without those medications.  It's time to go back and look up the side effects for each medication again. I want to go back and ask my endocrinologist more about all of this and maybe check and see if I still need the Advicor. Obesity and weight problems are not a simple is they appear.  The more I learn and research, the more factors I find that are related to it.