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RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 03-06-2024
Mmmm, donuts.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 03-06-2024
I do nut have a sweet tooth
I don’t eat sweets
My A1C still rose
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - King Bob - 03-07-2024
Haven't had a donut in ages. I need to go to Bob's Donuts to see if I can get a coffee cup.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 03-13-2024
(10-24-2023, 09:44 AM)Greg Wrote: I was using glipizide and metformin when my Blood sugar was really out of control. I am now down to 3 500mg metformin and no glipizide. Two in the morning and 1 at night. Glipizide was the opposite of Ozempic as those pills should have kept me from losing weight. According to my doctor, Glipizide was a brute force drug. Metphormin works with your body better. I must be on this cocktail of meds for at least a decade or more now. At one point at my worst, the pharmacy tech considered putting my on insulin.
Looks like I’m joining the glip club. I can’t take the side effects of metaformin. I’m at 500 and my doc doubled my dosage but at that rate I suffer from terrible coughing fits and bad acid reflux. Even at 500 I have issues. So my doc said to stay at 500 and start taking glipizide, 1 per meal.
The glip is on order. We shall see how it goes:
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 03-14-2024
According to my doctor, Glip is nasty. She was happy I was off it. Glip is a more brute force approach to keeping your blood sugar in check.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 03-14-2024
Not looking forward to it. Did you experience any side effects from it?
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 03-14-2024
Not that I'm aware of. And I was taking a bunch of Glips because my blood sugar was skyrocketing.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 03-14-2024
Do you get any sides from the metformin? That started out fine but perhaps the cough and stomach issues were always a problem that I just wrote off to my usual aches & pains. It wasn't until I was instructed to double my dosage that I realized that those ailments were connected to the met.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 03-14-2024
Fortunately, I do not. I was taking 2000mg. I'm down to 1500mg. I'm looking to drop one more dose.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 03-14-2024
I’m hoping to get off it. Doesn’t look like the glip will replace it from what you’ve said, but clearly our experience is quite different. If I took that much met, I would die of a coughing seizure.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 03-16-2024
Sugar Crash! And yet the puck says I'm good.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 03-17-2024
Got my glip. Will start it tomorrow.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - King Bob - 03-17-2024
Good luck.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 04-01-2024
Not sure the glip is for me. My vision is blurry & I’m lightheaded (more so than usual). Also had some weird headaches. Intense cottonmouth and still have those nasty coughing fits. Just don’t feel right. I should talk to my doc about it.
My glucometer is on the fritz too. I think I need a new one.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 04-01-2024
Get the puck! We can be Puck Buddies! That doesn't sound right.
I get to go through another round of customer support with my puck provider as they have decided to charge me full price again.