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Permalink Reply by Fred Legrand on November 8, 2010 at 10:57am

Hi Kellie,
I hope the side effects will go away soon. I had to stop it as I was suffering from all the side effects listed on the leaflet! Bad winds, bleaching with eggy taste, heartburn, I had very bad diareaha ... and no energy to do anything. Before I started the Victoza I was cycling 150 km a week then after 3 days of starting the Victoza I could not find the energy to go to the shop.
It had a postive effect on the blood sugars for a while. I stopped it 3 weeks ago I feel very well now even though the blood sugars are not good, I feel I'm back to my old self.
I wish you all the best with your health and keep your walk at lunch time!
Thanks
Frederic

Permalink Reply by Charmsy on November 8, 2010 at 12:01pm

Hi Kellie

I started victoza 10/19/10 on 0.6 and I noticed my morning sugar went down 20-30 points (I've always had high morning sugar in 160s). For me I did not experience any side effects and neither did weight loss or decrease in appetite.

I've been diagnosed since 2008. I've used Byetta, Novolog 70/30 and recently victoza. Now about 3 weeks later, I've been on 1.8 for about a week now. I usually take my victoza @ 745pm. I'd say it definitely helped me with my morning but just this past weekend, I took my victoza @ 915pm (diabetic nurse said I have a 3 hour window) and I woke up at 2am feeling sick, sweaty and shaky. checked my sugar and it was 40! not sure why it was so low that one night but overall, I love victoza :)

Permalink Reply by KellieD on November 8, 2010 at 12:37pm

Thanks responding. I take my Victoza injection every morning around 7:30 to 8:00 depending on when I get up. I take two 500 (I have a really hard time swallowing large pills hence the two 500 mg) metformin XR each night with dinner.

How often do you all check your BS? The first two weeks I was checking every couple of hours to make sure my BS were getting lower with my diet and medicine.

Permalink Reply by Charmsy on November 9, 2010 at 6:29am

I have to check 4x a day (sometimes 5) pre bf, pre lunch pre dinner bedtime and 1x after a meal. bs varies throughout the day so if u get a high #, don't stress over it! :)

Permalink Reply by twiddlemthumbs on November 8, 2010 at 11:24pm

Good morning Kellie as with all medication some of us suffer side issues I too had headaches and a little constipation but it did pass and victoza has also changed my life over the past 9 months I have lost nearly 3 stone and been able to reduce he amount of insulin I take daily, I am still on 0.6mg a day so the lowest dosage possible and it too has been a life saver for me just get through the initial stage where your body adjust to the new drug and I am sure you will continue to see the benefits,best regards twiddlemthumbs

Permalink Reply by John9ten on November 10, 2010 at 11:33pm

Hi Kellie
I didn't have side effects til I got to the 1.8 dose, then I was nauseated to the point of being physically ill. My doctor backed me down to 1.2, and no ill effects at all and my blood sugar numbers are cut in half! Your side effects will go away over time. And maybe ask your doctor about backing down to 1.2??
John

Permalink Reply by KellieD on November 11, 2010 at 7:19am

Thanks John. This is my third week on Victoza. I am only up to 1.2 mg. I just called my doctor and left a message to see if there was something safe to take to help my digestive system along. I have been taking MiraLAX for over 7 days now without much relief. Hopefully their office will call back today. I drink a ton of water each day and am still taking my daily walks. My BS numbers are going great though. So the medicine is working along with my change in diet and added exercise.

Thanks again for everyone's information. This is a great website.

Permalink Reply by fgiraffe on November 11, 2010 at 9:22am

I had a pretty rough time when I started Victoza in June 2010, mostly with random nausea during the day. I ramped up to 1.8u over 4 weeks. It did take almost 2 months before the nausea went away 99%, and it was not a pleasant two months! But it has really really helped my #s, curbed my dawn phenomenon and I've lost 15 pounds.

I do take my shot at night, right before bed. Maybe talk to your doc about switching your shot time?

Permalink Reply by alimar on November 18, 2010 at 5:18am

I did mention to the Diabetic Nurse yesterday when she was giving me my Victoza teach-in about my concerns over wind problems with Victoza - I had thought "oh, nooooo!", as I'm bad enough with Metformin! She said than none of her other Victoza people had reported this problem, so I started on it last night. Actually gave myself a double dose (2 x 0.6 mg) because I didn't realise that the indicator is supposed to go back to zero - oops! Just had a little bit of "cottonmouth" and a couple of reflux moments during the night, but otherwise everything was fine. My reading was 17.3 last night, but this morning it was down to 10.7 - okay, a bit on the high side, but going in the right direction! Will check my numbers again later this afternoon and tonight, but so far, so good!

Permalink Reply by KellieD on November 24, 2010 at 9:19am

I had my follow up visit with my doctor today. Great visit. I have lost 12.2 lbs. in less than 6 weeks. My appetite is definitely half of what it used to be. I am still taking a walk each day before lunch and started using a balance ball to do crunches on.

My side effects have lessened and should go away with time. Stress from other parts of my life are partially effecting my digestive issues.

I have so much more energy now that I have dropped the weight and gotten my BS levels down. I can't wait to see what my new A1C is.

I found a great tool to use to keep track of it all is Glucose Buddy. It is free.
https://www.glucosebuddy.com

Thanks for all of your support.

Hope you all have a healthy and wonderful Thanksgiving!

Kellie

Permalink Reply by moonchild on March 23, 2011 at 2:00pm

Thanks for the turn on to Glucose Buddy Kellie! This being my first full day on Victoza I look foward to being able to go to my followup appointment with a graph of my progress to present to my Doctor. He'll be quite impressed I'm betting.

Permalink Reply by alimar on November 24, 2010 at 9:25am

Just had my one-week follow-up phone call from the Diabetic Nurse - I had an all time high of 23.8 on Saturday night, but after I went to the gym on Sunday afternoon I thought I'd take a reading - just as well I did, as I was on an all-time low of 4.4! She said that I can now go on 1.2 jabs from tonight, so that should even things out a bit.

Even though I'm not in Kansas any more - HAPPY THANKSGIVING, FOLKS!

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