First off, I am so glad I found this site. I knew of soulcysters for a while but never joined as a member. I wanted to find out more about Byetta and IR as my prescription starts today. I was dx with PCOS around 15 years ago. IR around 5 years ago. Of course, I have all of the symptoms that go along with it, including obesity, infertility, etc.
I recently lost a baby at 4 months in 10/08 due to severe birth defects. The baby had Sirenomelia. I had to terminate the pregnancy and it was the worst experience of my life. I could go on and on about that, but that is not what I am here for. The moral of that story was, The Baby's rare condition (1 in 100,000) is linked mostly to women who are diabetic.
After I recovered slightly I thought about it and realized that all signs were now pointing to me doing something more about my health and weight issues. Was I heading more towards diabetes or was the IR to blame and had the same damaging effects on the fetus? I didn't really blame myself as no-one knows for sure what the cause was. What I really wanted out of all this horror, was something good, however small to come from this. What if that something good was taking better care of my body? I just recently (2 months ago) changed to a low glycemic diet. It has helped, I feel better but the weight is not dropping off as much as I would have hoped, maybe only 10#. I realize this can be attributed to IR.
I have severe sleep apnea (of course) and my ENT doc suggested I try Byetta with Metformin. So here I go. I am cautiously opptomistic. I typically don't have the average response to meds. Metformin isn't really doing much. My fasting insulin levels have gone down, but I do not get my menstrul cycles. I have read over alot of posts and I am very excited to have a forum to discuss my thoughts. So, I just wanted to introduce myself and say "Thank you" for those who have started this Byetta Club. I am sure I will have questions. |