03-13-2024, 10:41 PM
(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:
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