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Permalink Reply by Tracey on March 9, 2011 at 8:16am

Thank you for taking the time to talk to me about your trials with Victoza...It will be 5 weeks this Thursday,,,still no weight loss. though this week I am having terrible gas pains, very bloated belly, face, and hands, and constitpation!! I have cut back on food intake sooo much and am walking 3 miles a day 4 days a week...I think I am going to start taking stool softners and a little gas pill each day. Today I decided to switch to the am shot from the refrigerator...up to this point is has been room temperature before bed...I will keep everyone posted. I find that I am not hungry ever!! As a diabetic, I am stumped at what to do about it...my husband says to eat anyway to keep blood sugar stable. I wish I could just not eat at all. I want to lose weight and get this under control.. I too am not ready to give up, at my 3 month follow up I will ask to go up to the 1.8 dose and see what that does for 3 months and if that does not then I am going to ask for the gastric banding surgery. My doctor said that I could get all the negative health problems under control with weight loss...he wanted to try this first, as surgery is dangerous for diabetics. I was wondering if anyone who reads this can tell me if having a radical hysterectomy with everything removed and in serious menopause has affected their sugars? I read that the nightly hot flashes can cause high morning readings, due to the lack of a good nights sleep.
Once again thanks for talking with me and I wish you the best of luck!! too funny that you say you have the stubborn diabetes, I tell my doctor all the time that I am a high A1C functioning diabetic...I have never had any symptoms of the disease and my eyes have not changed vision in 15 years and my teeth are in great shape...lol

Permalink Reply by Suzanne on April 18, 2011 at 3:55pm

From everything I have been told and read about victoza it is stupposed to ALWAYS be refrigerated, and if it goes above a certain temperature it is to be discarded.

Permalink Reply by auxfire911 on April 9, 2011 at 9:43pm

Endo Dr. told me to take it about lunch time. She said it defeats the purpose if you take it at bedtime.

Permalink Reply by Brigitte on May 1, 2012 at 6:23am

I have never heard this and wondering what the explanation for it was.
I have been taking Victoza since December at 1.2 dosage. My BS isn't any better than it was before I started it. I have lost weight but contribute that to my working out and eating better. I won't be taking Victoza after this dosage is up because my new insurance won't pay for it and if they do my copay will be outrageous and if its not working wonders for me its pointless.
VERY interested in your explanation though!
THANKS!

Permalink Reply by Jeff on April 28, 2012 at 2:53pm

I take mine around 8 pm I have been on it just over 1 week I have lose 3-4 Lbs If i am able to keep it in the fridge i do but my Diabetic Education nurse said it was not necessary to keep it refrigerated I don't know really that's just what i was told

Permalink Reply by Ellie on May 30, 2012 at 9:43am

I take it at bedtime (on it about 6 weeks now), and the most amazing thing is that it defeats my horrible dawn phenomenon, apparently gets my liver under control and keeps it from chugging out glucose in the early AM, so that my fasting is no longer the highest reading of the day! That in itself is worth a lot. My doc told me to stop eating the minute I get full (which is a lot earlier than I did before), and that defeats the nausea effect. Apparently another thing it does is empty the stomach slower, which is why you feel full faster, and have nausea if you eat as much as you used to. And my sugars all day are much--I mean dramatically--better. My only fear is that I have heard from some that it just stops working after a while--and a short while at that. Well, and paying for it on Medicare in a couple years.

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